VINEGAR SYNDROME BLU RAY RELEASE: The Birds II: Land’s End (1994)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on December 23, 2021, but now Vinegar Syndrome has a new release that’s been newly scanned & restored in 2K from its 35mm interpositive, complete with a commentary track with film historians Amanda Reyes and Sam Pancake, “Don’t Remake Hitchcock Movies” – an extensive making-of documentary featuring […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Doin’ Time on Planet Earth (1988)
Directed by Walter Matthau’s son Charles and written by a pre-90210, Melrose Place and Sex In the City Darren Star, Doin’ Time On Planet Earth is about Ryan Richmond (Nicholas Strouse), who lives with his family in the Holiday Inn with a spinning restaurant on top that they own in Arizona. Looking for a date for his brother’s […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Messenger of Death (1988)
I despise the narrative that Cannon’s films with Bronson and J. Lee Thompson are poor. Having already worked together on St. Ives, The White Buffalo and Caboblanco, they would also make 10 to Midnight, The Evil That Men Do, Murphy’s Law, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown and this film at Cannon. And you know, while this is […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Hero and the Terror (1988)
Directed by William Tannen and written by Dennis Shryack (The Car, Cannon’s Fifty/Fifty, Murder by Phone) and Michael Blodgett (Lance Rocke from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; he also wrote the novel that this is based on), this Cannon film stars Chuck Norris as Danny O’Brien, a cop who put away a serial killer known as Simon “The Terror” […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989)
Directed by Rusty Lemorande and Albert Pyun, this is a sequel — of sorts — to Cannon’s Alien from L.A., this film suffered as many late Cannon films did due to lowered budgets*. In fact, the pre-production work and storyboards were wasted as the final film bears little resemblance to the script. Lemorande — the producer of […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Cannon Movie Tales: Puss in Boots (1988)
Directed by Eugene Marner (who also directed Cannon’s Beauty and the Beast) with a screenplay by his wife Carole Lucia Satrina (who wrote three episodes of Tales from the Darkside, as well as Cannon’s Beauty and the Beast and Red Riding Hood), this Cannon Movie Tales has quite a star in its cast: Christopher Walken as Puss, the cat […]
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