Maggie's Farm

I attended the 40th anniversary Tribeca Film Festival showing of "This is Spinal Tap".

I had let my boys watch it when they were 10 and 11, and here we are 14 years later - they were the ones suggesting we attend the show!

So we did, as a family. It was amazing, still funny after all these years. But the best part was the panel discussion and music afterward, as Spinal Tap played their 'best' songs - in truly Spinal Tap fashion.
Not dressed up, not loud and obnoxious. But with acoustic guitars, a didgeridoo, and about every other odd assortment of musical instrument you can think of. Also, Elvis Costello joined them onstage for a few songs, making it even more fun and interesting.

The panel discussion included Rob Reiner and the 3 main characters discussing plot elements and how they came to be. Apparently, they'd have a 4th member of the band who left to join an ACTUAL band, which led to the side story of recurring drummers lost to bizarre accidents. But this fellow came back toward the end of filming and shared a strange story of how his band had played a military ball....which, of course, led to the Spinal Tap show at the air force base.

It's quite a thing to think that Spinal Tap spawned a whole genre of movie-making in itself.

Not in the universe of Guest and company, but a faux documentary of its own, I'd recommend "What We Do in the Shadows"