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

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 ...

The action star plays deadpan detective Frank Drebin Jr. in director Akiva Schaffer’s welcome sequel to the police-parody ...

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 ...

I think Leslie Nielsen himself would have had a great time. Liam Neeson has just the chops for the deadpan reinvention of the 1988 comedy “The Naked Gun,” which has remained a favorite of comedy ...

Like everyone else my age, I am irrationally protective of the pop culture touchstones I grew up with. Just last week, I saw ...

One of my earliest memories is being in the theater to see some animated movie and then seeing the trailer for Naked Gun 2 ...

Liam Neeson is lifting the lid on some of his and Pamela Anderson’s more racy scenes in the new Naked Gun movie. The two ...

As of Wednesday afternoon, Schaffer’s Naked Gun is certified fresh with a 90 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 78 on ...