TriciaBarr | February 8, 2012

This weekend Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill posed a question on Twitter: “What is it that makes sci-fi action movies so kickass?” My answer was, “the imagination has no limits.”
This is exactly the reason Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite action movies – it’s set against backdrops only limited [...]
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Action Flick Chick | February 2, 2012

I hope Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has good car insurance because he’s going to need all the help he can get after Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol. Seems like every time the dude steps foot in a car it wrecks and/or blows up. Maybe he’s saved so much with Geico he just doesn’t care!
MI 4’s story [...]
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Tags: Burj Khalifa, Jeremy Renner, JJ Abrams, Josh Holloway, Lea Seydoux, Lost, Mission Imposslbe: Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible 4, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise
Action Flick Chick | January 23, 2012

Kate Beckinsale is back and more of a gorgeous badass than ever before! In Underworld: Awakening, she reprises her role as Selene, a vampire with a cold gaze and enough cold-blooded ruthlessness to keep an entire meat freezer cool. In this fourth installment of the Underworld series, the humans have discovered that vampires and Lycans [...]
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Tags: Action Flick Chick, India Eisley, Kate Beckinsale, Lycans, Selene, Stephen Rea, Underworld Awakening, Vampires
Patty J. Robinson | January 19, 2012

She’s been pushed too far! Things are gonna get all Haywire in here! Revenge is a bitch and so is Gina Carano!
Haywire tells the story of Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), a freelancing operative who works on contract when the Government officials don’t want to get their hands dirty. Ewan MacGregor is her ex-BF/boss, booking those [...]
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Tags: action movie, adventure, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Contagion, Ewan McGregor, Gina Carano, giveaway, Haywire, Mallory Kane, Michael Angarano, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, mixed martial arts, MMA, Steven Soderbergh
Action Flick Chick | January 17, 2012

THE HUMAN RACE HAS BEEN SAVED! You can breathe a little easier, and go back to your normal routines without having to worry about vampires sneaking around trying to drink your blood. Blade (Wesley Snipes) has come to the rescue once again in Blade Trinity. Joining Blade’s crew of merry men [...]
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Action Flick Chick | January 16, 2012

Punisher: War Zone follows the story of Frank Castle, (played by Ray Stevenson in this rendition) and takes place after his family has been killed and he’s made a name for himself in the town as the Punisher. This time Frank is going after a mob boss who, in an earlier encounter, was horribly disfigured [...]
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Action Flick Chick | January 9, 2012

I’m just going to lay it all out on the line: The best part of this film was when the movie was over and some guy down in front of the theater scared a woman by yelling Bah!! Then, in a tone so severe it made you wonder if you were going in a time [...]
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Action Flick Chick | January 2, 2012

Machete Maidens, a documentary on the exploitation films made in the Philippines, highlighted the film Ebony, Ivory, & Jade, so of course I had to watch it. The title is rather misleading, though. For starters, because of the type of film it is, you’d think it’s about three ladies, one of Asian decent, one of [...]
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Tags: Action Flick Chick, American Beauty Hostages, Colleen Camp, Ebony Ivory & Jade, exploitation film, Foxfire, Foxforce, Machete Maidens, Philippines, Rosanne Katon, She-Devils in Chains, Sylvia Anderson