Leslie Nielsen News

Every true fan of science fiction should be familiar with Forbidden Planet , the film famous for introducing the world to Robby the Robot.

Well, the weekend beckons, and like lots of folks, I'm planning to head to my local Hell Octaplex tomorrow to get a look at visionary director [you're actually legally required to use that description now when ...

Warner Bros., $28.99 basic Blu-ray. Rated PG-13. The lowdown: The studio feeds the flames for next Friday's release of 'The Dark Knight' with the Blu-ray high-definition debut of the 2005 hit film starring ...

"Is there any way to get you two to be serious for a moment?" pleads host Peter Gzowski, a vain hope as he interviews irrepressibly clever and comic brothers Leslie and Erik Nielsen.

B4 Ratings for each film begin with a "star" rating -- * meaning "poor,"**** meaning "excellent" -- followed by the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and then by a family-viewing guide, the key for ...

"Superhero Movie" like all of the other "...Movie" films, doesn't exactly tread upon fresh ground.

They say that life imitates art. Sometimes it's the other way around, as my wife and I discovered when we recently tuned into Channel 8's fun new program, Doctorology , which offers a comical and informed look ...

On Sat., June 28, The Silver Scream Spook Show at The Plaza Theatre presents 1958's classic technicolor space opera, Forbidden Planet .

From the comedic minds behind The Naked Gun and Scary Movie 3 & 4, comes Superhero Movie , on DVD July 8th from The Weinstein Company and Genius Products.

This isn't your mom and dad's "Get Smart." It's barely "Smart" at all. Sure, the characters and organizations retain the same names as those in the 1965 TV series that spoofed the ultra-hot James Bond spy ...

Superhero Movie is not the worst of the spoof genre, but relies on tired gags and lame pop culture references all the same.

A scene from 'Prom Night'. PROM NIGHT directed by Nelson McCormick Starring Brittany Snow, Johnathon Schaech, Idris Elba, Dana Davis and Jessica Stroup IN 1980, a slasher-flick of the same title was released, ...

Takeoff on the original Exorcist, in the never-say-die manner of Airplane! Paul Morrissey did this same thing better in his Hound of the Baskervilles, and didn't take up an entire movie doing it.

The movie spoof has fallen into such cosmically dire straits that it can be hard to remember a time when they were actually fun to watch. via Portland Mercury

Hilary Duff's older sister is in Hollywood North starring in a sexy teen thriller. via 24 Hours Vancouer

Television would never survive a truth-in-packaging rule. I'm not sure what words would describe "Most Outrageous Moments" , but I'd have to guess that at least two out of three would have to change if honesty ... via SouthCoastToday.com

“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”

The spoof that launched a thousand spoofs, not to mention a brilliant second career for Leslie Nielsen as a comic actor, lands at Enzian for a rare theatrical screening Tuesday night at 9:30 as part of the Cult ... via Blogs.indieWIRE.com

If you're going to remake a movie, might as do so with a crappy one and see if you can improve it. via Macsimum News

“We don't have time for flashbacks!”

Leslie Nielsen, the patriarch of zany, in a decades-late takeoff on James Bond, with sideswipes ranging from Home Alone to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . via San Diego Reader

Reviewed by Scott Tobias April 11th, 2008 How do you like your abysmal? Inept but distinctive, with lots of gratuitous violence and T&A, and Leslie Nielsen in a serious role? Or slick but perfunctory, with no ... via A.V. Club