Spinal Tap

“For so many years, we said, ‘nah,'“ director Rob Reiner tells Deadline. “It wasn’t until we came up with the right idea how to do this. You don’t want to just do it, to do it. You want to honor the first one and push it a little further with the story.”

Spinal Tap are reuniting virtually to raise money for the The Pennsylvania Democratic Party, with director Rob Reiner on hand as well. Patton Oswalt will moderate.

Plus Prateek Kuhad, Scott Reynolds (ALL), Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), Sloppy Jane, Mott the Hoople '74, Pond, Future Islands, and more tour-related news.

Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.

Following a Tribeca Film Festival 35th anniversary screening of ’This is Spinal Tap,’ Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer played a set of acoustic Tap classics, and brought out Elvis Costello...

Also added to Tribeca Film Fest: events with Trey Anastasio, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Birbiglia, Queen Latifah, Questlove, The Simpsons, and more.

”Reality Bites was a formative experience in my life. To have a 25 year anniversary screening is very exciting,” said Stiller. ”I'm looking forward to seeing the whole cast, and possibly changing the ending so Michael gets Lelaina.”

Montreal's loudest shoegazers flirt with dance music on "Hellhole," which is not a Spinal Tap cover. Or is it?

BAMcinématek will be presenting "Indie '80s" from Jul 17--Aug 27 at BAM Rose Cinemas, featuring a wide variety of off-kilter American cinema classics from the Reagan Years...

This year's New York Film Festival is shaping up to be the biggest ever. The festival scored not one but three major coups in the programming department, snagging premieres of perhaps the three most-anticipated films of the fall and winter season: David Fincher's Gone Girl, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's Birdman, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice...