Pomona Valley Film Society

04/22/2026

Happy birthday! Thanks for all the great movies!

Happy 80th birthday to the incomparable John Waters! ❤️🎂

01/20/2026

Remembering the incomparable David Lynch on his birthday. ❤️🕊️

01/11/2026

You’re invited to this special screening in Claremont

(L to R: Josh Richman, Tim Hunter, Daniel Roebuck, Crispin Glover)

Director Tim Hunter and cast members Daniel Roebuck and Josh Richman will be on the panel for our 40th Anniversary Q&A screening of River’s Edge (1986) moderated by author Jonathan Lethem on January 22 at 7:30pm at Laemmle Claremont 5. Reserve your seats now as this is sure to be a packed house!

Tickets: laemmle.com/film/rivers-edge

Photo: Jane O’Neal

12/25/2025

Remembering the legendary Humphrey Bogart, who was born on this day in 1899. ❤️🕊️

12/15/2025

RIP Rob Reiner (1947–2025) 🕊️

12/15/2025

So sad… RIP

Beloved Hollywood director/actor/producer Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were murdered by their 32-year-old son Nick at their Los Angeles home, according to multiple reports. Per TMZ, the couple were discovered Sunday afternoon and appeared to have “suffered lacerations consistent with a knife."

Nick, who reportedly struggled for years with drug addiction and homelessness, is now in Los Angeles Police Department custody.

Reiner, 78, was the son of legendary writer/actor/director Carl Reiner. He starred from 1971-1978 as the lovable Michael “Meathead” Stivic on All in the Family, and went on to direct such beloved films as Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, and When Harry Met Sally. But it was his stewardship of the pioneering 1984 rock’n’roll mockumetary This Is Spinal Tap that cemented his place in the hearts of music fans.

Reiner directed, co-wrote, and starred as the film’s fictional director, Marty DiBergi, who chronicled a disastrous album launch and U.S. tour by fading U.K. rockers Spinal Tap (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer). The film’s spot-on portrayal of rock’n’roll behavior and clichés became the stuff of legend — memorized on tour buses by bands all over the world and its dialog recited like Bible verse for decades ever since.

“We’re the first generation that grew up on rock’n’roll — we love rock’n’roll! So to find that crease between paying homage and loving rock n’roll and at the same time making fun of it, that was a tricky line to walk,” Reiner told People earlier this year.

“Virtually everything that happens is taken from something that we either experienced with people, because in the late ’60s, the rock’n’roll world and the improv world, which is where I come from, there was kind of a cross-pollination there, so I was very much aware of what goes on tour and what happens, [and] we got stories from people that we knew.”

A sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, was released in September and reunited Reiner with McKean, Guest and Shearer, plus real-life musicians such as Paul McCartney and Elton John.

Rest in peace 🙏

11/05/2025

OBEY

'THEY LIVE' starring Professional Wrestler Roderick Toombs (Roddy Piper) and Keith David was released on this day 37 years ago.

10/31/2025

Don't miss this special screening of The Wrath of Khan in Claremont!

10/30/2025

10/25/2025

Don't miss the screening of Star Trek II Wrath of Khan featuring the legendary Ricardo Montalban at the Laemmle Theater on November 11th! Nicholas Meyer will be there following the screening for a special Q&A.