Cannon Films

Bullet Points: Fifty/Fifty

I usually don’t like to think about math when I watch action movies, but I recently watched an action movie that can best be described with a mathematical equation. 50% action plus 50% comedy equals 100%...

Ranked: Shô Kosugi – 80s Edition

Shô Kosugi was born in Tokyo, Japan on June 17, 1948. And for those of us who have been lucky enough to watch his films over the years, we also know that Shô Kosugi was born...

20 Reasons Why You Rock: Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Law opened in theaters on April 18, 1986. It was Charles Bronson’s fourth collaboration with Cannon Films and his sixth film with J. Lee Thompson in the director’s chair. For me personally, Murphy’s Law is...

No Surrender Cinema: Going Bananas

No Surrender Cinema is here to kick off the month of April, and this column may as well be called Not Your Average Cannon Films Review. For nearly a decade, you’ve seen our articles and heard...

Bullet Points: Thunder Run

When Cannon wasn’t producing their own films or buying movie theaters, they were distributing films for other producers. Such was the case for Thunder Run… Thunder Run was a movie that was way better than it...

Bullet Points: Three Kinds of Heat

For years I was operating under the assumption that Robert Ginty’s Cannon career began and ended with 1984’s Exterminator 2. Then while reading my copy of Austin Trunick’s The Cannon Film Guide Volume II, I learned...

20 Reasons Why You Rock: 10 to Midnight

Like many movie lovers, October is the time of year when I try to cram in as many horror movies into my schedule as possible. Now there are plenty of my personal horror favorites that I...