88 FILMS BlU RAY RELEASE: Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
Written, directed and starring Lau Kar-leung (Executioners From Shaolin, Drunken Master II, Return to the 36th Chamber), Legendary Weapons of China has eighteen different weapons, including the rope dart, double tiger hook swords, double hammers, a battle axe, the snake halberd, Kwan Dao, twin broadswords, the double-edged sword, a Chinese spear, the three-section chain whip, double daggers, double […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Flag of Iron (1980)
When the master of the Iron Flag Clan and the rival Eagles group’s leader have been killed by the mysterious Spearman. The secret is that he has been hired by Iron Tiger (Feng Lu, Centipede from Five Deadly Venoms), who has allowed Iron Panther (Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Lizard from Five Deadly Venoms) to take the […]
CANNON MONTH: Love Streams (1984)
In 2015, the BBC named Love Streams the 63rd greatest American movie ever made. What is it doing on our site? What is it doing coming from Cannon? Well, according to Austin Trunick’s The Cannon Film Guide Volume 1: 1980-1984, there was some mutual admiration between Cassavetes and Cannon. Menahem Golan may have made his money […]
CANNON MONTH: Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
Loosely based on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, this was the second time that director Stephen Weeks filmed the tale, as he made Gawain and the Green Knight in 1973. Shot in Wales, Ireland and France with period costumes taken from Europe’s finest theaters such as the Royal National Theatre, the Bristol […]
CANNON MONTH: I’m Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work (1984)
As part of his deal with Cannon to make Love Streams, John Cassavetes had director Michael Ventura installed behind the scenes of that movie, the last that he would direct and write. There are behind the scenes documentaries and then there is this movie, which has Cassavetes leading around a miniature horse while wearing a floppy […]
CANNON MONTH: Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Cannon made three Agatha Christie movies — Ten Little Indians and Appointment with Death are the other ones — this movie was said to be no fun at all, as Donald Sutherland refused to be filmed from low angles and was given to barging off the set, while Faye Dunaway insisted on being lit from the […]
CANNON MONTH: The Naked Face (1984)
A Sidney Sheldon novel written fourteen years before this was filmed, this also gave Roger Moore the opportunity to get ahead of typecasting, seeing as how 1985’s A View to a Kill would be his last time as James Bond. Instead of a suave British spy or thief, he played a Chicago psychoanalyst named Dr. Judd […]
A Day to Die (2022)
Ex-military ops officer and current parole officer Conner Connolly (Kevin Dillon, The Blob) has just 24 hours to pay $2 million to gang leader Pettis (Leon Robinson, Derice from Cool Runnings) in order to save his kidnapped pregnant wife Candace (Brooke Butler, All Cheerleaders Die). Turns out that by saving a parolee by killing one of […]
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