Cannon's flame: how Chuck Norris became a right-wing action icon

The AV Club piece revisits Chuck Norris’s 1980s Cannon Films era—notorious for bloody, xenophobic action pictures like Invasion U.S.A. and The Delta Force—that helped forge his conservative, take-no-prisoners action-hero image, while the rest of the feature stack surveys AI-focused documentary sentiment, a reverent look at the nuclear drama Testament, and a playful roundup of rock-themed characters in media, illustrating how pop-culture artifacts are reassessed across eras.