February 18, 2009 Think of the electromagnetic railgun as an electric cannon which uses electrical energy instead of chemical propellant to launch projectiles at hypervelocities. First conceived ...

If you grew up in the 80s then you probably saw a Cannon Film like “Lifeforce,” “Missing in Action,” or “Death Wish 2.” The new documentary “Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films” ...

Daniel Goodwin dives face first into the 80s circle of Cinema Heaven that is Cannon Films. This story has been told recently in the must-see documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of ...

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO was the name of the wacky 1985 sequel to the break dance epic BREAKIN’ – which I don’t know was worthy of a follow-up but if there was one studio up to the effort in the mid-‘80s, it ...

For the second time in a year, the meteoric rise and ignominious demise of 1980s schlock juggernaut Cannon Films comes to the screen in feature-length documentary form. But where Cannon is concerned, ...

Who needs good taste when you have plenty of enthusiasm? Fantastic new documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films charts the rise and fall of two movie-obsessed Israeli ...

The Navy’s futuristic electric cannon, or railgun, received yet more hype this week for its ability to fire a shell at up to 5,600 miles per hour, and do it far more cheaply than a missile. But ...

What do we make of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus? For the generation that first clocked on to movies in the 1980s, the Israeli cousins provided endless hours of unashamedly idiotic entertainment. In ...

During the Cannes Film Festival of 2001, Menahem Golan, onetime chief blunderbuss of the celebrated schlock factory Cannon Films, could be found hawking his latest movies at the Cannes Market, ...

Back in the 1980s, a feature kicking off with the Cannon Films logo was a guarantee that you were going to get violence, nudity or bad language, and frequently a combination of all three. Yet while ...