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Entries Tagged as 'Christopher Guest'

For Your Consideration (2006, Christopher Guest)

December 28th, 2006 No Comments

Apparently, when Christopher Guest doesn’t do pseudo-documentaries, his films simply don’t work. I didn’t realize For Your Consideration was different in that approach until a lot further in than I should have, probably fifteen minutes or something. As it opens and introduces the set-up (I guess that part would be called the first act, which […]

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This is Spinal Tap (1984, Rob Reiner)

October 16th, 2006 No Comments

To be fair, I haven’t seen Spinal Tap in fifteen years, so when I say I remember it being funnier… well, I’m sure I used to think Caddyshack was funnier too. Funny even.
Spinal Tap achieved, in the late 1990s, a mythic reputation among film and DVD geeks for a couple reasons. First, I suppose, was […]

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