What made Leslie Nielsen so unique was that he played not to the audience, but against them. While everyone else mugged, he ...

The pleasure of the old Naked Gun films, which starred Leslie Nielsen in what amounted to an extended, elaborately silly riff ...

Nearly 40 years on, The Naked Gun is still a high-water mark for spoof comedy - powered by Leslie Nielsen’s unflappable ...

Some say directing is 90% casting. In the case of Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, it was more like 110%. The choice of ...

In 2018, David Zucker – co-creator and director of spoof comedy films Airplane! and The Naked Gun – told me that he was ...

Paramount’s “The Naked Gun” reboot, one of the year’s funniest movies, has made $1.6 million at the box office so far after ...

In 2022, I sat down with actor Liam Neeson on Zoom for his action film, Memory. We chatted for a while, and I asked him about ...

Leslie Nielsen may have passed away in 2010, but The Naked Gun found a way to incorporate his Frank Drebin into the ...

The reboot of “The Naked Gun” tosses off a few sharp and/or stupidly effective gags of the hit-and-run variety, nice and ...

A mad scramble of pop culture tropes lands with aplomb as crime-fighting savant Frank Drebin returns to the screen ...

There’s no real logic in Kane’s big scheme to destroy and remake Los Angeles, It’s in fact quite absurd to think of him expanding ...