John P. Ryan

Bullet Points: Shooting Stars (1983)

It is fitting as we enter the season of giving, that Matt Spector gave me the heads up on a TV movie that I had never heard of… 1983’s Shooting Stars starring one of my all-time...

What If Cannon Made Their Spider-Man Film?

Get ready, True Believers, because today’s the day! The time has finally come to travel Across The Spider-Verse with Miles Morales and various other versions of Spider-Man, and today I’m going to look back at the vision for...

Scene of the Week: Freefalling

Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection does not have a lot of the elements that made the 1986 original a beloved Cannon Classic. There is no Lee Marvin, there is no Steve James. The fantastic score...

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...

Bullet Points: Runaway Train

It’s not often that I get to talk about Cannon movies being legitimately great movies and it’s even more rare for those movies to star Eric Roberts. So what we have here is a unique experience...