Tag Archives: This is Spinal Tap

Pooch pics for Crufts week

Posted on 10 March 2010 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings Since that world famous dog show Crufts starts tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to take a look at some pooch pics I expected to be compiling quite a short list, but I’ve discovered that movie-land … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Dirty Dancing – a weekend of Patrick Swayze

Posted on 27 September 2009 by Beth Williams

Across the UK today, a film I am strangely keen to see is opening at select Picturehouse/City Screen cinemas. Morris: A Life With Bells On is a mockumentary about that traditional English hankies and bells leaping activity known as Morris … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | A Mighty Wind

Posted on 6 April 2009 by Beth Williams

On ITV1 tonight at 11.35pm Don’t you just love mockumentaries? Nothing compares to This is Spinal Tap, and perhaps never will, but this spoof doc of the folk music world, also written by Christopher Guest, is loads of fun.

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Couch Potato Pickings – This is Spinal Tap

Posted on 28 August 2008 by Beth Williams

On ITV1 tonight at 1.40am Am I alone in finding this antisocial time slot an insult to this brilliant movie? A side-splitting spoof of an English heavy rock band on tour in America, it’s one of the funniest movies ever … Continue reading →

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