The new Naked Gun film, starring Liam Neeson, captures its predecessors' slapstick spirit. Freakier Friday, meanwhile, proves ...

In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, “The Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen were wildly popular and the height of ...

From The Files of Police Squad! is an absolute masterclass in joke-making. It's always seemed to me to be the most joke dense ...

Neeson goes on the hunt for what amounts to a tech villain (who wants a machine in a safe deposit box that’s labeled P.L.O.T.

This intermittently amusing comedy, a sendup of the hardboiled cop genre, may qualify as a fun spoof for grown-ups. Yet one sequence of utterly tasteless sexual sight gags will leave discerning ...

Nielsen, a ‘50s leading man reborn in ‘80s slapstick, once said he had been cast against type all his career until “Police ...

Thank you, oh merciful comedy gods, for delivering us that rarest of cinema creatures: a film – that’s a reboot of a trilogy that spun-off from a TV show that’s left the public conscious – that’s not ...