Leslie Nielsen's first starring role in a movie happened almost 70 years ago, via an Oscar-nominated classic with a 92% ...

The Naked Gun, no longer relying on a stone-faced character actor going goofy, benefits from Liam Neeson: a star with a ...

Neeson, however, is not to be counted among the rewatchers. In fact, the actor made a point of not revisiting the original ...

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

I saw a movie bring my dad to tears only once. He laughed almost uncontrollably — to the point of tears — while watching the late, great Leslie Nielsen buffoon his way through one screwup after ...

Leslie Nielsen for the part of Lt. Frank Drebin deserves a special place in the annals of brilliant casting choices.

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

The king of goofy comedy's career has spanned more than six decades, 100 movies and 150 TV shows, and it was based on a ...

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Liam Neeson is the new lead of The Naked Gun, but his predecessor Leslie Nielsen nearly got a final comic farewell in the ...

Last week “The Naked Gun” opened, a reboot of the comedy film trilogy, which starred the sublimely oblivious Leslie Nielsen.