CANNON MONTH: Too Much (1987)
How did Cannon decide to take on so many movies? And which ones? Because Too Much came out in 1987, a year during which I estimate they released thirty-three movies. Can you imagine a studio releasing a new movie almost every week? Susie (Bridgette Anderson, who was Savannah in Savannah Smiles and was also in the 1983 […]
CANNON MONTH: The Emperor’s New Clothes (1987)
Directed and written by David Irving, this is the third Cannon Movie Tale I’ve seen with Clive Revill in it. It also has Sid Caesar as the Emperor, Robert Morse as the tailor who attempts to make his clothes and Lysette Anthony (Lyssa from Krull) as Princess Gilda. With these Cannon takes on fairy tales, you […]
CANNON MONTH: Master of Dragonard Hill (1987)
Oliver Reed is Captain Shanks, a drunken and rambling slave ship captain who is playing the exact role that he’s meant for! Herbert Lom is Le Farge, who has murdered the governor and taken over the Caribbean island of St. Joseph’s! Claudia Udy from Savage Dawn, Joy is Arabella, the sexually obsessive daughter who lusts after the slaves […]
CANNON MONTH: Diary of a Mad Old Man (1987)
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tamizaki, which was filmed once before by Keigo Kimura in 1962, Diary of a Mad Old Man tells the story of Marcel (Ralph Michael, Dead of Night), the mad old man of the title, who suffers from chronic muscle disease and begins to fixate on his daughter-in-law Simone (Beatie Edney, Highlander) after the […]
The Sound of Scars (2022)
Formed in the summer of 1989 by singer Mina (born Keith before coming out as transgender in 2011 and transitioning) Caputo, bassist Alan Robert and guitarist Joey Z, Life of Agony grew from a hardcore band that traveled the east coast to build a following to charting at No. 27 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart […]
CANNON MONTH: America 3000 (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This movie originally ran on the site on September 11, 2019. It’s been updated for Cannon Month. David Engelbach wrote Over the Top, Death Wish 2 and two episodes of the TV shows Lottery and MacGyver. He also wrote the 1984 TV movie Goldie and the Bears, which starred Hulk Hogan. He’s only directed one film — the […]
Scream 5 (2022)
You know, Radio Silence, who directed and produced this movie (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are the directors and Chad Villella produced), made the rather wonderful Ready Or Not, so I was pretty excited about seeing where they would take this film. And then I remembered that they also made the frustrating Southbound, a movie that for […]
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