Tag: Cannon Films

Exterminator 2 (1984) – Review

When it comes to tactless examples of vigilante cinema, there’s something about the simple sleeze of James Glickenhaus’ fascinatingly nasty The Exterminator that really stood

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Ninja III: The Domination (1984) – Review

During its reign, The Cannon Group were responsible for some truly bizarre choices that stretched far beyond their infamously curious business plan. There’s their attempt

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Revenge Of The Ninja (1983) – Review

If I’ve said it once on this site, I’ve said it a thousand times, sometimes the thread marking the barriers between a bad film, a

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Enter The Ninja (1981) – Review

While the 80s where hardly a fortress of restraint, surely one of the most amusing tropes of the decade was Cannon Films’ insistence that action

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Cyborg (1989) – Review

In a career absolutely jam packed with dystopian futures, marauding robots and probably more crucifixions than are strictly necessary, the indomitable Albert Pyun made it

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American Ninja 5 (1993) – Review

Regardless of your feelings about action cinema’s most blatant act of cultural appropriation, there’s something deeply impressive about the fact that this legendarily childish franchise

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Death Wish V: The Face Of Death (1994) – Review

The year is 1994 and action cinema has exploded. James Cameron, let loose with the biggest budget ever at the time has delivered the spy/action/comedy,

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American Ninja 4: Annihilation (1990) – Review

When the third chapter of Cannon’s endearingly infantile American Ninja series somersaulted into theatres, devout fans of the franchise were horrified when the lead actor,

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Delta Force 3: The Killing Game (1991) – Review

Nepotism is something that’s been occuring in Hollywood for decades with varying degrees of success, but surely Delta Force 3 has to be some sort

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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) – Review

After a first instalment that raised some pertinent questions about the law and justice (albeit in a very exploitative way) and a third instalment that

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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989) – Review

While I don’t want to sound like something of an action snob, the news that many American Ninja fans utterly despise the third installment came

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American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) – Review

“This is the most ridiculous story I’ve heard in my life!” maintains curtly moustachioed commanding officer “Wild Bill” Woodward as he gets the lowdown of

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Death Wish 3 (1985) – Review

There always seems to be that telling moment in any long running franchise where it morphs into something so far removed from its original concept,

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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990) – Review

It’s 1990 and the once thriving Cannon Goup has all but crumbled into dust – but from the wreckage of the studio that flew close

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Death Wish II (1982) – Review

There’s not many genres I have trouble stomaching. Slashers? No problem. Italian cannibal movies? Sure, why not? Torture porn? A cakewalk. However, if there’s something

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New Year’s Evil (1980) – Review

By 1980, a lot of the choice dates for seasonal set slasher films had already been nabbed with Black Christmas, Halloween and Friday The 13th

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American Ninja (1985) – Review

Hey, remember back in the 80s when all you had to do to make your film cooler was to stick some freaking ninjas in it?

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Braddock: Missing In Action III (1988) – Review

The year is 1988 and due to some questionable mismanagement that would make Jack and his handful of beans wince, producers Menahem Golan and Yoram

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Masters Of The Universe (1987) – Review

Fanboys have been complaining for decades about the “necessary” changes made to a famous property when it finally reaches the screen. These have usually ranged

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Missing In Action (1984) – Review

The eccentric ups and downs and chaotic business practices of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’ Cannon Group are well documented, but one of the most

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