The Cannon Canon

"That's my momma!" It's our second week of covering the comedic stylings of Dreyfuss & Landsberg ! This week we discuss 1987's DUTCH TREAT ! A movie that literally came out MONTHS after Detective School Dropouts.  Cannon had conceived a vehicle for Dutch "girl band" the Dolly Dots in 1983 and they made good on that promise...4 years later...by combining their movie with a Dreyfus & La...

“They don’t make Munks like they used to!” Abbott & Costello, Martin & Lewis, Cheech & Chong...Dreyfuss & Landsberg. That's right, for the next two weeks, The Cannon Canon will be covering the Cannon comedic stylings of Lorin Dreyfuss & David Landsberg ! First up, 1986's Detective School Dropouts ! A mixed-bag, madcap comedic romp that leaves the Cannon Bros a little lukewarm o...

“I can get an interview with a Times Square pimp!” It's Oscar season, so it's time to get prestigious here on The Cannon Canon. The Cannon Bros are dressed in their tuxes and sitting down to dissect the serious cinema of the Cannon Oscar swing, STREET SMART ! Ever wanted to see a sociopathic Clark Kent? Then Street Smart is your movie! Christopher Reeve was able to make this passion project by agr...

“I’m gonna rip out your heart and suck your blood!” Patreon member Joaquim Dantas steps up to the Cannon Canon plate and knocks it out of the park with this COULD'VE Been A Cannon pick! 1987's ENEMY TERRITORY !  Before Full Moon Productions, Charles Band ran Empire Pictures and released this gem that hits ALL the Cannon staples. It's a movie described as Die Hard meets The Warriors and...it's...

"Hay is for horses!" It's the unofficial sequel to Breakin' that barely has anything to do with Breakin'! That's right, today we're covering the 1985 Cannon finger on the pulse film " RAPPIN '"!  Where Krush Groove successfully showcased the early rap scene, Rappin'...has rapping sequences of Mario Van Peebles awkwardly re-voiced by Ice-T and Master Gee. Everyone gets a chance to ra...

The HOT continues to boil over from "Hot January" thanks to Lou Ferrigno and Sybil Danning at their hot throbbin' peak! So you know what that means...no, we already covered Hercules....the OTHER one starring sexy Lou & Syb: 1984's THE SEVEN MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS (or as the Cannon Bros call it, "The Sev Mag Gladz")! We're talkin' Anthony Kiedis looking demi-god villains, middle-aged gladiators...

“Kill the goat! Oil the women!” Our HOT January spills over into February where we…don’t have a theme. "F#@k It February"? Today we cover Golan’s dream swing at the desert epic with 1984’s SAHARA . A film that looks great but maybe suffered from “too many cooks” syndrome. Starring young starlet (and infamously exploited) Brooke Shields and a handful of white actors in brownface. We discuss: Jonath...

"The song- is finished. The laughter- silent. The dream- dead."  We continue to scorch the cold January air with more HOT Cannon titles! Today, we serve up two slices of piping hot beefcake with 1987's The Barbarians ! Starring The Barbarian Brothers as...The Barbarians! Sword and Sorcery meets pure dumb Cannon fun! Eva La Rue charms, Michael Berryman Dirtmasters and Richard Lynch does what h...

“I just wanna f*******ck!” We continue our HOT January with HOT CHILI ! A "teen sex comedy" that's not afraid to get bizarre and surreal now and then and also not afraid to share the exact same plot as Hot Resort. It's got sexy music lessons, gun-toting horny elders, a crazed Nazi-esque jealous husband, "ChiChi!", video blackmail, Bubba from "Mama's Family" going full skinemax and a bullfight gone...

The Cannon Canon heats up a cold January with some hot flicks this month. This week we're covering the "sex comedy" (we use that term liberally), " HOT RESORT ". One thing is true, there is a resort. With appearances from Bronson Pinchot, Frank "The Riddler" Gorshin" and known Hollywood creep , Dan Schneider.    Does the movie live up to it's name and promise? Or is it a Cold Asylum (cha...

The Cannon Bros are kicking off the New Year with a COULD'VE BEEN A CANNON ! Patreon member, Joshua Richardson, chose one of THE most Could've Been A Cannon's we've seen yet. 1986's NEVER TOO YOUNG TO DIE ! John Stamos, Gene Simmons and Prince protege Vanity star in this wannabe Bond flick for the Pepsi generation. Is it effective Bond-fare? It certainly has A Bond (George Lazenby) and...yeah, tha...

"Oh. I don’t like him. Kurt Cobain? He took my cricket." We conclude our detour into " Shane Black Christmas" with a movie that revived both Shane Black and Robert Downey Jr's career, 2005's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang . A movie that paved the way for RDJ Iron Man, ultra meta storytelling and an imperfect attempt to break gay stereotypes. Frank and Geoff are on opposite sides of their feelings on this mov...

The Cannon Bros take a detour for the reason for the season... a Shane Black Christmas ! This Holiday season we celebrate the Christmas-tinged genius of Shane Black. Today we discuss our FIRST (and likely only) Marvel movie, 2013's IRON MAN 3 ! Shane Black gets a crack at a big-budget Marvel film and we ponder, "Is it a Shane Black Marvel movie or a Marvel Shane Black movie?" It's got all the Shan...

 The Cannon Bros take a detour for the reason for the season... a Shane Black Christmas ! This Holiday season we celebrate the Christmas-tinged genius of Shane Black. Today we discuss 1991's THE LAST BOY SCOUT . And joining us to chat some Wayans and Willis is the last boy scout himself, Jason Gore!  The Last Boy Scout is a movie where the two main stars hated each other, the producer an...

The Cannon Bros take a detour for the reason for the season... a Shane Black Christmas ! This Holiday season we celebrate the Christmas-tinged genius of Shane Black. Today we discuss 1996's THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT . And joining us to chat about this underrated film is John Murray!  We discuss the hit-or-miss madness of Renny Harlin, the stellar performances from Samuel L. Jackson and Geena Da...

The Cannon Bros take a detour for the reason for the season... a Shane Black Christmas ! This Holiday season we celebrate the Christmas-tinged genius of Shane Black. First up is 2016's criminally underrated The Nice Guys ! A somewhat greatest hits of Shane Black tropes that fires on all cylinders.  It's an all-out Cannon Bros gush fest, valid criticism need not apply.  Don't worry, "the...

"I don't like adventures!" It's November and with Thanksgiving here, we wanted to treat you to a feast this month with  The Cannon Canon Commentary Cornucopia ! All month long we're doing watch-alongs to some of our favorite Cannon films! This week we do a watch along for 1987's MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE !  Join us as we give some Langella love, crack-wise at He-Man's lack of use of his si...

Oh, our achin' banana! It's November and with Thanksgiving around the corner, we wanted to treat you to a feast this month with  The Cannon Canon Commentary Cornucopia ! All month long we're doing watch-alongs to some of our favorite Cannon films! This week we do a watch along for 1986's Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 !  We've really come around to ol' Tobe "Cream Jeans" Hooper's TCM sequel....

"OK, USA!" It's November and with Thanksgiving around the corner, we wanted to treat you to a feast this month with  The Cannon Canon Commentary Cornucopia ! All month long we do watch alongs to some of our favorite Cannon films! This week we do a watch along for 1988’s Bloodsport ! Watch along with The Cannon Bros as we Kumite all day, root for ANY sport's team named The Giants, ponder why e...

It's November and with Thanksgiving around the corner, we wanted to treat you to a feast this month with The Cannon Canon Commentary Cornucopia ! All month long we do watch along to some of our favorite Cannon films! This week we do a watch along for 1985's DEATH WISH 3 ! Put on your bib, fire up the ol' TV and favorite podcast platform, stack up on leftovers and get your fill of our stupid voices...

We close out CARPENTOBER with the Cannon Bros favorite Carpenter film (and possibly favorite film, period) HALLOWEEN ! You've heard MANY people talk about this perfect horror classic...now you get to hear us talk about this perfect horror classic!  It's the night the Cannon Canon came home...and talked about their favorite Carpenter film! OUR PATREON: patreon.com/thecannoncanon Follow us on t...

“You gotta be f#@%ing kidding”. No kidding, CARPENTOBER continues with the alien paranoia classic THE THING ! Considered a "failure" at the time, this Carpenter classic found the praise it deserved over the past 40 years. The Cannon Bros (Frank and Geoff) dig this harder than a Swedish...sorry, Norwegian research team in the Antarctic.  We talk killer creature designs by a young Rob Bottin, b...

LOVE LIVES TODAY! We take a slight, but relevant detour from CARPNETOBER to share our thoughts on 2022's HALLOWEEN ENDS ! With The Cannon Bros (Frank and Geoff) being huge Halloween heads (and since we did Halloween Kills), you KNOW it had to be done.  Crawl out of that storm drain, throw on your plastic scarecrow mask, hop on the back of our bad boy evil motorcycle and burn it all down with...

CARPENTOBER continues with the wildly underrated PRINCE OF DARKNESS . An apocalyptic tale that came to Carpenter while reading about...quantum mechanics?! The Cannon Bros (Frank and Geoff) hunker down in a creepy L.A. church and pontificate about science and religion, extraterrestrial Jesus and that awesomely creepy VHS dream transmission! Fill up on some Anti-God juice, reach through the mirror t...

We're taking a detour from discussing Cannon Films this October so we can cover our favorite master of horror, JOHN CARPENTER! We're calling it, " CARPENTOBER "! To kick off CARPENTOBER, we put on our special shades to see the truth about the Carpenter classic " THEY LIVE " !  A sci-fi horror that unfortunately still has relevant social and political commentary today (but not in the way consp...