On Sept. 25, 1987, Rob Reiner's comedy first hit theaters. By Duane Byrge On Sept. 25, 1987, 20th Century Fox unveiled The Princess Bride in theaters. The Rob Reiner-directed comedy would initially ...
It’ll be interesting to see how Rob Reiner describes Princess Bride on the talk shows. It’s swashbuckling, bright, breezy and delightful, but it defies pigeonholing. It doesn’t have a hook or lend ...
“The Princess Bride,” being somehow foundational to Gen X, millennial, and Gen Z culture, is, for what seems like an overwhelming majority of people, never really far from mind. So, perhaps, it was ...
Judging by the outcry from Hollywood stars over a Sony executive’s vaguely floated notion this week of remaking “The Princess Bride,” you’d think that the idea wasn’t to make a new film but to alter ...
In the mid-1980s, film director Rob Reiner was virtually untouchable. The former "Meat Head" from ALL IN THE FAMILY and son of director Carl Reiner had directed THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984) and STAND BY ...
The Princess Bride has to be one of the most popular movies ever made. While the film was something of a disappointment at the box office, it was rediscovered on home video, and through word of mouth ...