GQ Magazine 'The Naked Gun,' Brian Eno, and More Weekend Culture Picks

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How to entertain yourself this weekend.

Here’s everything we’ve been watching, listening to, and blaming for the downfall of society this week. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor

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This week on the site, GQ’s Jack King praised Akiva Schaeffer’s Liam Neeson-led reboot of the Police Squad saga as a worthy successor to the joke-a-minute Zucker Brothers original—“from the silly tone to the bawdy sense of humor to the surreal sight gags”—that makes expert use of Neeson’s “knack for self-effacing comedy” and threads the potentially-tricky needle of making a comedy about the po-po in the Defund the Police era. (Although, to be fair, the Naked Gun series has been ACAB—All Cops Are Boneheads—all along.)

For our pre-Naked Gun ranking of the best Neeson films, click here; to learn why Neeson turned down the role of some guy named “James Bond,” click here. Neeson and his Naked Gun co-star slash rumored paramour Pamela Anderson also show up in this Josiah Gogarty meditation on some recent rumored celebrity couples whose sheer unlikeliness either makes us believe in love (Anderson/Neeson) or confirms that the universe is meaningless and chaos reigns (Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau.)

Also this week: Grayson Haver Currin talked to living legend Brian Eno—a self-proclaimed non-musician whose creative fingerprints are all over iconic albums by everyone from David Bowie to Talking Heads to U2 to Coldplay—about what he wants to do before he dies. (Speaking of Talking Heads: We ranked their best songs right here.) After witnessing his personal GOAT back in action at Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour finale in Vegas, Frazier Tharpe spitballed a few scenarios for a Jay-Z quasi-comeback. Chris Black praised Netflix’s MAGAs-gone-wild drama The Hunting Wives as ideal entertainment for the brain-in-airplane-mode days of summer.

And: We talked to Ralph Ineson about playing Galactus, ranked movie-soundtrack needle-drops, contemplated Tyler, the Creator’s semi-ironic ‘80s R&B stache and Jessie Murph’s possibly ironic ‘60s gender politics, explored how Old Hollywood stars Cary Grant, Paul Robeson and Marlon Brando continue to influence modern menswear, and watched streaming sensation Fanum try a bunch of high-end restaurant food. —AP

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