Avenging Force

Ranked: Michael Dudikoff – The Cannon Years

In past editions of Ranked we have ranked the Cannon filmographies of the two cornerstones of that company… Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris. Now in honor of his birthday, we rank the Cannon films of another...

Scene of the Week: Meet the Pentangle

Of all the villains that Michael Dudikoff battled over the course of his film career, I don’t think any of them come close to the level of evil as the Pentangle from the 1986 film, Avenging...

Stories From The Trenches

After a successful crowdfunding campaign and months and months of hard work, Marco Siedelmann’s book, Stories From The Trenches: Adventures in Making High Octane Hollywood Movies from Cannon Veteran Sam Firstenberg is now available for action...

Hall of Fame: Sam Firstenberg

Director Sam “Shmulik” Firstenberg may not have set out to become a filmmaker synonymous with the action genre, but when Cannon impresarios, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, tapped Firstenberg to direct 1983’s Revenge of the Ninja...

Cannon’s Honorable Mentions

Bulletproof Action celebrated its four year anniversary in grand fashion this year when we presented The Ultimate Cannon Countdown! The Top 10 list, generated by compiling the opinions of the Bulletproof Action staff and some friends...

An Interview with Sam Firstenberg

When I first began writing for Bulletproof Action, interviewing director Sam Firstenberg was only a dream. But now that dream has become reality. One of Sam Firstenberg’s most famous films is the 1984 cult classic, Breakin’...

The Essentials: 1986 Action

The year was 1986. Ronald Reagan was in office. The Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffled over the New England Patriots. The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion and the Chernobyl disaster dominated the news cycle. And the world...