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Written by James M. Tate / 3/14/2026 / No comments / frances sternhagen , horror , james caan , kathy bates , nineties , richard farnsworth , rob reiner , rural , stephen king , thriller

JAMES CAAN AND KATHY BATES IN ROB REINER'S CLASSIC 'MISERY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIcAndYTpnIJcjMplVejMLMdVT4XAQ535mfNaATlyKPvOpnrZfb1RoGTD2kY-PdrIblDyr-uGW3B-2S02wHh4g9J67PtO8JWdjlfZSkEr9mEjOzIt1u85lf00Rls2WkQOy3cVGlpLUpgU793SQsGhJjD-KHmi4QpLdhqc_DcKPatYPeyp2Rj7kUaWvi-c/s1740/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-14%20at%2012.27.07%20PM-1%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIcAndYTpnIJcjMplVejMLMdVT4XAQ535mfNaATlyKPvOpnrZfb1RoGTD2kY-PdrIblDyr-uGW3B-2S02wHh4g9J67PtO8JWdjlfZSkEr9mEjOzIt1u85lf00Rls2WkQOy3cVGlpLUpgU793SQsGhJjD-KHmi4QpLdhqc_DcKPatYPeyp2Rj7kUaWvi-c/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-14%20at%2012.27.07%20PM-1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Caan reluctantly book-burning in MISERY Year: 1990 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Within fifteen-minutes of MISERY (starting fifteen-minutes in before ending at the thirty-minute mark), Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes goes from giddily eccentric to outright insane, underlining the brilliance of the relative cinematic newcomer's Oscar Winning performance... <br><br>As the equally impressive/important reactions of screen legend James Caan, and director Rob Reiner's ability to channel the works of Stephen King through a deliberately-subtle homage to his favorite director Alfred Hitchcock, providing the tightest and most uniquely satisfying King adaptation... <br></p>

frances sternhagen, horror, james caan, kathy bates, nineties, richard farnsworth, rob reiner, rural, stephen king, thriller

JAMES CAAN AND KATHY BATES IN ROB REINER'S CLASSIC 'MISERY'

James Caan reluctantly book-burning in MISERY Year: 1990 Rating: ***** Within fifteen-minutes of MISERY (starting fifteen-minutes in before ...

DIRECTOR ROB REINER'S ROAD MOVIE COMEDY 'THE SURE THING'

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Lisa Jane Persky are so overly one-dimensional, the two leads, John 
Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, seem even more real... <br>
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Polar opposites Cusack, as an endearing goof, 
and Zuniga, an uptight hidden beauty, journey cross country to Southern 
California... Cusack to meet a gorgeous blonde (the sure thing) and 
Zuniga to see her stuffy fiance... </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony edwards, daphne zuniga, eighties, john cusack, nicollette sheridan, road movie, rob reiner, sex comedy, tim robbins, viveca lindfors

DIRECTOR ROB REINER'S ROAD MOVIE COMEDY 'THE SURE THING'

John Cusack painted like Andrew McCarthy in THE SURE THING Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 In director Rob Reiner's road movie THE SURE THING,...

STAGED NOSTALGIA FOR 'SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAbg0y9rosGuX-CL6_fXSsC76Lo_JyDhrjkrNEkOHnmHfRbRWZhu_oSWdlrb95oHzmhlgcw9iHPhZOqFlwu39zT0SSl8iegNvkrqeGCvL5rZpG2XEY18Ad148mAiJEvsxPa2VeDiQd8qEx-qvyjnKoHEJ5w35Ow05KePR-1FsOgPjaWSA6J4Cyaj2kiak/s1254/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-12%20at%209.45.04%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAbg0y9rosGuX-CL6_fXSsC76Lo_JyDhrjkrNEkOHnmHfRbRWZhu_oSWdlrb95oHzmhlgcw9iHPhZOqFlwu39zT0SSl8iegNvkrqeGCvL5rZpG2XEY18Ad148mAiJEvsxPa2VeDiQd8qEx-qvyjnKoHEJ5w35Ow05KePR-1FsOgPjaWSA6J4Cyaj2kiak/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-12%20at%209.45.04%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 2025 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Rob Reiner's completely unanticipated sequel to THIS IS SPINAL TAP wants to play it both ways: on the one hand, the fictional Heavy Metal group hasn't played together for years, their music is forgotten, and they have insanely mundane/downright bizarre jobs, like making cheese or creating background themes to cellular on-hold services...<br><br>But at the same time, while the old boys are reunited in a homey New Orleans studio, anticipating one big reunion show, they're visited by and jam with the likes of Paul McCartney and Elton John (who both consider them "legendary") with a sold-out crowd singing along to their lyrics, even somehow understanding the ironical nuances of their stage show (like the size of <i>Stonehenge</i>)...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

2025, christopher guest, comedy, elton john, harry shearer, michael mckean, mockumentary, music, new, paul mccartney, rob reiner, sequel

STAGED NOSTALGIA FOR 'SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES'

Year: 2025 Rating: ** Rob Reiner's completely unanticipated sequel to THIS IS SPINAL TAP wants to play it both ways: on the one hand, th...

ROB REINER GOES NORTH W/ ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES EVER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YEAR RELEASED: 1994</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Director Terry Gilliam's first directed feature outside the Monty Python spectrum is TIME BANDITS, where a lonely, imaginative pre-teen, ignored by a pair of boorish, overly-typical suburban parents, is thrust into a portal where he discovers, along with a handful of thieving dwarves, the kind of manly dream-dad he, and any kid, would want in Sean Connery's brave, middle-aged from the Middle Ages warrior, much like an intrepid and serious version of our NORTH narrator Bruce Willis, who Elijah Wood finds after running away — ala Drew Barrymore in a courtroom liken to IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES — from a terribly depressing, equally annoying home-life, and he serves as a sort of mentor/guide, appearing as various characters, from a man in a bunny suit to a cowboy to an eskimo, for guidance beyond mere parental wisdom; more of a cool uncle but "enough of my yackin'... Here's a movie that killed a sublime winning streak of director Rob Reiner, who reigned in a decade of great to very-good movies from SPINAL TAP to PRINCESS BRIDE to MISERY... This is possibly the worst motion picture ever made, and one that might be suited to the "So Bad it's Good" category but really more of a "So Horrendously Awful it's Torturous Yet Intriguing, somehow..."</span><br>

nineties, rob reiner

ROB REINER GOES NORTH W/ ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES EVER

YEAR RELEASED: 1994 Director Terry Gilliam's first directed feature outside the Monty Python spectrum is TIME BANDITS, where a lonel...

JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN THE BUCKET LIST

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack and Morgan's perspective of an unreachable mountain YEAR: 2008</u></td></tr>
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Having ventured back into the classic cinema of Jack Nicholson throughout the years, we'll now embark on a relatively modern journey when the man was reunited with the director of <i>the first</i> of his two middle-aged-era pinnacles, ending with AS GOOD AS IT GETS and starting with A FEW GOOD MEN...
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Right from the start, in THE BUCKET LIST, the number of times a medical board member gives each other knowing, untrusting glances while Jack's character... a millionaire who owns privatized hospitals... stands, or rather, sits lazily on some kind of hearing against him, this is the sign of director Rob Reiner, begging the audience to agree that Jack is (at first) up to no damn good: What's important is that his Alpha Male tycoon is the polar opposite of the trivia whiz mechanic played by Morgan Freeman...<br>

comedy, disease, drama, jack nicholson, morgan freeman, rob reiner, zeroes

JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN <b>THE BUCKET LIST</b><br />

JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN THE BUCKET LIST

Jack and Morgan's perspective of an unreachable mountain YEAR: 2008 Having ventured back into the classic cinema of Jack Nicholson t...

LEFTOVER REVIEWS: AND SO IT GOES & PLANES 2

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2014 rating: *</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>AND SO IT GOES:</b></span> In a way, the once worthy SPINAL TAP, PRINCESS BRIDE, STAND BY ME and MISERY director Rob Reiner has returned to his ALL IN THE FAMILY roots by making a film in which the main character, played by AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT Michael Douglas, is the type of racist, sexist, grumpy lug that, by the end, you’re supposed to embrace… Especially after reluctantly connecting with a young girl (where we enter the Meathead-free ARCHIE BUNKER'S PLACE territory)...<br />
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But Oren Little, a cantankerous East Coast real estate mogul who lives in a dilapidated yet artistic apartment complex while trying to sell his mansion, is no Archie Bunker. Nor is he the kind of antagonistic protagonist that Jack Nicholson brought to life in AS GOOD AS IT GETS, a movie AND SO IT GOES tries desperately hard to imitate. <br />
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Douglas isn't peripherally funny enough in his loathsome bickering, and the writing is disjointed and awkward, especially as we progressively learn of Oren's tragic back-story: either through his heroin-addicted son, faithful employees or the tenants inhabiting the outdoorsy complex, including and especially low rent lounge-singing Diane Keaton as Leah. Imagine if Annie Hall, now older, more content and still dreaming of a possible musical career, lacked the right romantic partner to make her quirkiness shine...  <br />
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As a love interest, Keaton is wasted in a movie that promises a Rom-Com outlet for older viewers. With a barrage of forced blue humor and extremely uncomfortable sexual discussions, GOES doesn’t seem catered to its target audience, providing a vapid catharsis for the bland couple who have zero chemistry together, or with anyone else. Even when the lead plot is unburied… of Oren and Leah forced to take care of his granddaughter… the story, balancing clichés and frivolous bouts of contrived dialogue, leads absolutely nowhere.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2014 rating: *1/2</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">PLANES 2</span></span>:</b></span></span> Any movie that has Erik Estrada providing the voice of a cocky helicopter as part of a nostalgic television show called “CHoPS” has to be worth something... <br />
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Well PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE is a tad better than the original, PLANES, a CARS spinoff providing Disney a series of relatively low budget programmers for kids: Now taking the main character Dusty Crophopper, fresh from globetrotting race fame, to a new job as part of a fire rescue team, using his former dust-cropping skills for a worthy cause.<br />
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Unfortunately, much of the story deals with Dusty having dull conversations with other cutesy machines, and little time is spent on the adventurous premise. Besides the one big rescue scene, reminiscent from any old school Irwin Allen disaster flick, it’s mostly a chance for our poorly-voiced hero (Dane Cook couldn't be more dull) and his new mentor, Blade Ranger, a has-been celebrity helicopter, to gripe about their pitiful lives... And this is supposedly catered to kids!<br />
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From sneaking curse words into sentences to random pop culture references, children will not know enough to even scratch their heads about it. They just want colorful characters... who in this case, needed way more color...<br />
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In a world without humans, perhaps next time we can find out who actually built the vehicles. The machines are cool enough, especially during action sequences, but as “people” they’re simply not that interesting.<br />
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2014, diane keaton, disney, michael douglas, rob reiner, sequel

LEFTOVER REVIEWS: AND SO IT GOES & PLANES 2

year: 2014 rating: * AND SO IT GOES: In a way, the once worthy SPINAL TAP, PRINCESS BRIDE, STAND BY ME and MISERY director Rob Reiner h...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/23/2011 / No comments / christopher guest , courtroom drama , demi moore , jack nicholson , keifer sutherland , kevin bacon , military , nineties , rob reiner , tom cruise

A FEW GOOD MEN

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggdwBpZvAEjg5Xo7mU90nZ8w4m3lD7PXj5oAWiPjaledcktOajalS3cnwF9e_DEUf1D5KSZrhPdxRVn2Dww-wqbn6kznHV2UzePh4rmy38SKNqLDW9cK4cFy1JPam6JOb2bDkXiUs5WA8/s1600/a-few-good-men.jpg"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576993495894009330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggdwBpZvAEjg5Xo7mU90nZ8w4m3lD7PXj5oAWiPjaledcktOajalS3cnwF9e_DEUf1D5KSZrhPdxRVn2Dww-wqbn6kznHV2UzePh4rmy38SKNqLDW9cK4cFy1JPam6JOb2bDkXiUs5WA8/s200/a-few-good-men.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 143px; float: right; height: 200px;" /></strong></a><strong>title:</strong> A FEW GOOD MEN<br /><div><strong>year:</strong> 1992</div><div><strong>cast:</strong> Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Pollock, Kevin Bacon</div><div><strong>rating:</strong> ***1/2</div><br /><div></div><div>The last good Rob Reiner film before he went <em>North</em>, never to return. Tom Cruise is both effective and annoying (one in the same with Tom) as a slacker military lawyer defending two Marines for the murder of a passive grunt in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which might be linked to the "God and Country" Lieutenant (played with over-amped gusto by Keifer Sutherland) or even the big bad wolf General: scene-stealer Jack Nicholson who, during his four scenes (especially one in which he belittles Cruise's partner-in-law Demi Moore) completely steals the show. Prepare to wince as Cruise sulks about living in his father's shadow; and sustain disbelief for a very implausible ending. But the direction flows and the cast, especially Kevin Pollack as Cruise's grounded sidekick/conscious, morphs the otherwise unbelievable (and often contrived) proceedings into a decent courtroom melodrama. </div>

christopher guest, courtroom drama, demi moore, jack nicholson, keifer sutherland, kevin bacon, military, nineties, rob reiner, tom cruise

A FEW GOOD MEN

title: A FEW GOOD MEN year: 1992 cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Pollock, Kevin Bacon rating: ***1/2 The last good R...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/27/2011 / No comments / cary elwes , christopher guest , cult , eighties , fantasy , peter falk , rob reiner

THE PRINCESS BRIDE

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbZlOHov448buAGOvyqCRfXQLH-lfCBTWalUcYouvcs8z9AUFRk_XgeNSKiicNw0v-DFT4EUm7vF4GtXnlYkTmH1osEcbUbfGvNtT8UAlqyp39sOaAF5aawMeKmVENADS-aibT6VKW8Q/s1600/BR.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566964699966965650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbZlOHov448buAGOvyqCRfXQLH-lfCBTWalUcYouvcs8z9AUFRk_XgeNSKiicNw0v-DFT4EUm7vF4GtXnlYkTmH1osEcbUbfGvNtT8UAlqyp39sOaAF5aawMeKmVENADS-aibT6VKW8Q/s200/BR.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 165px;" /></a><strong>title:</strong> THE PRINCESS BRIDE<br /><div><strong>year:</strong> 1987</div><div><strong>cast:</strong> Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn</div><div><strong>rating:</strong> ****</div><br /><div></div><div>One of the most enjoyable, and quotable, films of all time, this thoroughly addictive fantasy seems real even though... as read by grandfather to grandson... we know - and are sporadically reminded - it's make-believe, making the two main character's plight... young lovers Cary Elwes and Robin Wright separated by her impending royal wedding... endearing without being corny. Directed by Rob Reiner and written by William Goldman, there are no filler roles: Mandy Patinkin as a Spanish sword fighter seeking revenge on his father's killer; Wallace Shawn as a short, bullying kidnapper; Chris Sarandon as the haughty villain; and Andre the Giant as a lovable but dangerous lug are equally important in this timeless classic.<br /></div>

cary elwes, christopher guest, cult, eighties, fantasy, peter falk, rob reiner