Step inside New World Pictures: The Midnight Movie Factory as we rewind five cult favorites from one of Hollywood’s most fascinating independent studios. In this episode of Sunset Video, we look back at Godzilla 1985, Black Moon Rising, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Dead Heat, and The Punisher, covering the stories behind the movies, box office history, production trivia, personal memories, and the wild era of New World Pictures after Roger Corman.

From giant monsters and futuristic supercars to Rutger Hauer, Dolph Lundgren, Tommy Lee Jones, Treat Williams, Gene Simmons, and more, this is pure 1980s video store territory. ⏭ Next Up: https://youtu.be/gddZ1ckPGHQ

In this episode of Sunset Video: Quick Picks, we rewind I Come in Peace and take a look at why this forgotten 1990 sci-fi action movie still rocks, from Dolph Lundgren and Brian Benben’s buddy-cop chemistry to Matthias Hues as the towering alien villain Talec.

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Cannon Films is back on the rental rack, and this time we’re going big. In Cannon Films: Greatest Hits, we’re revisiting 25 movies from the legendary Cannon Group, spanning action classics, cult favorites, forgotten gems, wild experiments, and some of the most gloriously unmistakable movies of the 1980s.

From Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson to American Ninja, Missing in Action, Death Wish, Superman IV, The Last American Virgin, Invaders from Mars and plenty more, this is a feature-length celebration of the Golan-Globus era when ambition was enormous, restraint was optional, and virtually no movie idea was too crazy to put on a VHS shelf.

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In this episode, we’re digging into Collision Course, the oddball VHS-era action comedy starring Jay Leno, Pat Morita, Chris Sarandon, Tom Noonan, Ernie Hudson, and Randall “Tex” Cobb. This forgotten late-80s rental follows a Detroit cop and a Japanese detective forced to team up over a stolen prototype turbocharger, because apparently that was enough to launch an international buddy cop adventure.

Cannon Films goes full throttle in this All Action Edition of Friday Night Rentals. We’re revisiting Enter the Ninja, Missing in Action, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, American Ninja, and Invasion U.S.A. for a VHS-era marathon loaded with Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, Michael Dudikoff, ninjas, explosions, Cold War chaos, and pure 80s action-movie energy. Welcome back to Sunset Video.

In this episode of Sunset Video: Quick Picks, we rewind Navy SEALS (1990), directed by Lewis Teague, and take another look at this critically bruised but ridiculously entertaining military action flick. Is it messy? Absolutely. Is it still a great Friday-night rental? Let’s find out.

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Cannon Films Episode 4 dives into five wild 80s rentals. From teen heartbreak and superhero chaos to Charles Bronson revenge, buddy-cop weirdness, and alien invasion paranoia, this Sunset Video episode revisits the strange, messy, unforgettable magic of Cannon Films.

Howie Long battles ruthless escaped convicts and a raging wildfire in Firestorm (1998), an underrated slice of ’90s action-movie mayhem. In the first episode of Sunset Video: Quick Picks, we rewind this fast-moving disaster thriller, dig into what works, and explain why Firestorm still quietly kicks ass.

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