In this episode we both watched awful, terrible, no-good films as punishment for losing the guessing game last episode. We then get back to regular scheduling with guessing and talking about two related films to our main feature: The Naked Gun, directed by Akiva Schaffer as well as written by Schaffer, Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, and starring Liam Neeson as Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr. who is pulled off a bank robbery case due to his excessive force and reassigned to a traffic suicide whose victim's sister, Pamela Anderson, insists was actually a murder. Danny Huston plays a tech billionaire who plans to use a plot device for an evil plan. Hijinks ensue.

Next week we will be discussing Shin Godzilla written and directed by Hideaki Anno and co-directed by Shinji Higuchi.

Works Cited:

• American Criminal (Dylan Bank, 2019)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011)
• A Karate Christmas Miracle (Julie Kimmel, 2019)
• Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
• Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers (Akiva Schaffer, 2022)
• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
• Deadpool (Tim Miller, 2016)
• Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
• Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
• Holmes & Watson (Etan Coen, 2018)
• Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson, 2022)
• The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014)
• Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2004)
• Life's Too Short, Season 1 Episode 1 (Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, 2011)
• "Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?" (Tony Zhou, Every Frame a Painting, 2014)
• A Minecraft Movie (Jared Hess, 2025) [about which Ben's more articulate thoughts can be found here.]
• The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer, 2025)
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (David Zucker, 1988)
• Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)
• Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988)
• Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong, 1992)
• Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer, 2016)
• The Snowman (Tomas Alfredson, 2017)
• Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
• Snatched (Jonathan Levine, 2017)
• Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1987)
• Spy Hard (Rick Friedberg, 1996)
• Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008)
• Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, 2006)
• Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker and Martyn Burke, 1984)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)
• The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
• Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 2018)
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasden, 2007)

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Ben Verschoor

• https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/
• https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/
• @benverschoor.bsky.social

Steven Santana

• https://breakingarrows.substack.com/
• https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/
• @number8axel.bsky.social‬

Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel

Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa

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