Cannon Films

Bullet Points: Sahara (1983)

If Alex Winter is to be trusted, Menahem Golan was telling people that he believed Brooke Shields would win an Academy Award for her performance in Sahara. On the surface that statement is preposterous. After watching...

Scene of the Week: Enter the Ninja

1981’s Enter the Ninja played a big part of the ninja craze of the 1980s. It was one of the earliest signs that Cannon and action movies were a match made in heaven. And it introduced...

Bullet Points: The Hitman (1991)

As a Cannon devotee and a Chuck Norris enthusiast it almost pains me to admit that there was one Chuck Norris movie produced by Cannon that I had yet to see… 1991’s The Hitman. What makes...

Bullet Points: Hero and the Terror

1988’s Hero and the Terror is probably not the first movie you think of when you think of Chuck Norris’ time with Cannon Films. It has more in common with Chuck’s 1982 film Silent Rage, than...

Bullet Points: Firewalker

Cannon Films is synonymous with the action genre but I don’t immediately think of Cannon when I think of action comedies. Chuck Norris is also synonymous with the action genre, but back in 1986 I would...

Ranked: Charles Bronson – The Cannon Years

Charles Bronson was born Charles Buchinsky on November 3, 1921 in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania. To celebrate what would have been Mr. Bronson’s 100th Birthday today, I have invited some special guests to join members of the Bulletproof...

Bullet Points: King Solomon’s Mines

Looking back and it is obvious that Cannon gurus, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, were bound and determined to capitalize on the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The 1981 movie directed by Steven Spielberg...