Scene of the Week: Superman, Cannon Style
1987 proved to be an ambitious year for Cannon Films. They paid Sylvester Stallone a ton of money to star in the arm wrestling themed Over the Top. They brought He-Man from the toy aisles and...
Cannon Films
V Questions: Death Wish V: The Face of Death
The parting of ways between Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus was not a pretty one. The Israeli cousins who lived their American dream when they purchased the Cannon Group and then turned it into an independent...
Movie Kumite: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra vs. Masters of the Universe
When it comes to movies based on toys, Transformers is the undisputed box office champion. The Michael Bay directed films are a cash cow and it looks like there is no end in sight. But I...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About 10 to Midnight
Many would categorize the movies that Cannon Films produced to be nothing more than guilty pleasures from decades past. But thanks to two documentaries, a number of special edition Blu-Ray releases and even a few books...
Unsung Heroes: Bloodsport
Bloodsport was a launching pad for the Hollywood career of Jean-Claude Van Damme. The movie based loosely on the life and times of Frank Dux made Jean-Claude Van Damme a star in the world of action...
Scene of the Week: Like Father Like Son
Shô Kosugi wasted little time indoctrinating his sons, Shane and Kane, into the world of martial arts. As soon as Shô could start training them he did and those skills would pay off both sooner and...
Scene of the Week: Beach Brawl
On May 1, 1987… the wait was finally over, Michael Dudikoff was back as the “American Ninja” Joe Armstrong in American Ninja 2: The Confrontation! Considered by many fans of the franchise to be a superior...
An Interview with Marco Seidelmann
I don’t believe fans of the action movie genre get their just due in the pop culture universe. We may not be as over the top and theatrical as the horror movie fans, we don’t have...
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’...
Stories From The Trenches: The Official Sam Firstenberg Book
Action fans who grew up in the 1980’s and early 1990’s owe a huge debt of gratitude to director Sam Firstenberg. Sam was one of the in-house directors for the Cannon Group. Sam directed action classics like Revenge...
