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Episode #414: 'The Naked Gun' (2025) with Dan McCoy

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4.7932 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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THE NAKED GUN is back...are mid-budget studio comedies back too?

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0:00.0

So no more running.

0:03.0

I didn't misbehave.

0:07.0

Shit an your mother!

0:09.0

God damn it!

0:10.0

I'm sorry myself into a criminal institution.

0:13.0

Is it any wonder then that I've chosen not to learn the intricacies of an antiquated and idiotic system?

0:19.0

I think not. Hello and welcome to Maximum Film, Episode 414. I'm your host, Kevin Avery, and joining me as always. He's a film critic and author of the book, Hollywood Pride, and will not be commenting on the rumors that he is the next James Bond. It's Alonzo Dorale Day. What's good, sir? I said I wasn't going to comment on that. I know. I'm sorry.

0:38.4

Shouldn't have mentioned it. What's good with me is one of my favorite filmmakers. And the guy who

0:43.2

many have said is the inventor of the video essay, Mark Rappaport, has a new project out that is not a

0:49.7

movie, but it's very, it is steeped in his cinephilia and love and knowledge of the

0:55.8

history of film. It's called Book of Dreams, and it's a

0:59.3

collection of collages where he crosses

1:02.5

images from various films, from various

1:05.7

decades, on, you know, into the same image

1:08.9

with each other, but it's done so in a way that if you think about it,

1:12.9

you can sort of see there are thematic ties or visual ones.

1:16.6

And what it does is a thing that I always loved in

1:20.1

that monster sort of essay movie that Christian Markley made,

1:25.2

The Clock, that 24-hour film,

1:27.3

where it kind of takes our

1:29.1

sort of shared collective notion of the movies and turns it into one giant movie.

1:36.1

And sort of, you know, kind of intermingles things that shouldn't go together, that we're never

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