This article appears in the June 2023 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. America’s comedians are the real victims of gun violence. Of course after the actual victims, their ...

Something we never anticipated has happened. Even in an era where every other movie is a sequel, legacy sequel, or reboot, it's still shocking to have a new Naked Gun. Liam Neeson, whose awesome ...

Long before making the 2025 “The Naked Gun” reboot, writer/director Akiva Schaffer was a student of the original spoof films, “Airplane!” (1980), “Top Secret”(1984), and “The Naked Gun” (1988). There ...

The summer movie season is upon us, and in addition to dinosaurs, superheroes and Fridays of the freaky variety, we’re getting a brand new Naked Gun movie. The reboot of the iconic comedy franchise ...

Akiva Schaffer's reboot of The Naked Gun starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson leans all the way into the absurdist comedy of the original movie, and finishes with a hilarious ending that keeps ...

When news first broke that "The Naked Gun" was receiving a legacy sequel starring Liam Neeson, many of us shook our heads and criticized Hollywood for churning out yet another needless reboot. After ...

The Naked Gun franchise has always been a rapid-fire delivery system for gags, delivered straight-faced by a cop who doesn't know that anything is... 'The Naked Gun' packs jokes on jokes on jokes The ...

Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher likes to hunt. As such, he is logically a gun owner, which means he has, surely at one point in his life, discharged a firearm. And by nature of those factors, ...

The comedy creator was tasked with following the franchise's storied legacy, while still acknowledging the fresh cast To do so, Schaffer said the new film needed to acknowledge O.J. Simpson's previous ...

Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher likes to hunt. As such, he is logically a gun owner, which means he has, surely at one point in his life, discharged a firearm. And by nature of those factors, ...