Action Flick Chick | May 17, 2012

God Bless America seems like it could stir up some controversy considering it’s about ordinary guy Frank (Joel Murray) going around killing people who annoy him. Along the way, he picks up a 16 year old accomplice, Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who thinks what he’s doing is awesome and wants to join the party. The [...]
Category: Coming Attractions, Independent, action, movie, trailers |
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Action Flick Chick | April 24, 2012

This year ActionFest shined the light on women in action by first honoring Gina Carano with the Chick Norris Award, and then by screening Wonder Women! The Untold Story of the American Superheroines. This documentary follows the path from the beginning of the first superheroine to the strong action women of today. Scholars, authors, and [...]
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Action Flick Chick | December 5, 2011

YEEHAW! Tired of the cliché horror movies where a group of college kids go on a trip to party in the woods and get picked off one by one by a group of evil rednecks? Then Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is the film for you! This flick is a clever reversal of the psycho [...]
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Action Flick Chick | October 11, 2011

Often when a wrestler is in a movie, they’re usually the worst actor in the film. However, that is not the case with Bail Enforcers. WWE’s Trish Stratus was one of the best actors in the film, and she was only okay…which should tell you something about the other performances.
Bail Enforcers is about exactly what [...]
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Action Flick Chick | July 11, 2011

VH1’s Scream Queens’ executive producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina have a new documentary out called Dying to Do Letterman. A title has never been so accurate of a description as this one. Steve Mazan was 12 years old when he decided his life long dream was to perform stand up comedy on the Late [...]
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Action Flick Chick | May 23, 2011

If ever there was a dude you don’t want to antagonize, it would be a samurai, especially any of the samurai in the Japanese film 13 Assassins. Directed by Takashi Miike, 13 Assassins is a samurai epic based on a true incident. A Shogun’s younger brother, Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki), becomes mad with power, so [...]
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Action Flick Chick | May 12, 2011

Gravestoned, written and directed by Michael McWillie, is about a group of stupid people all filing into a cemetery at night thinking they are going to make a movie. Then things go terribly wrong when a corpse goes missing and people start turning up dead, and the movie starts turning up boring.
There are stoners, sexy [...]
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Action Flick Chick | May 2, 2011

I would like to clarify something: Dylan Dog: Dead of Night sucks as an action film! Don’t get confused by its label of ‘action comedy horror’ film, because it ain’t action, and it’s not all that much of a comedy horror. It’s mostly a paint-by-the-numbers detective story.
Dylan Dog (Brandon Routh) is a private investigator of [...]
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Tags: action, Action Flick Chick, Anita Briem, Brandon Routh, comedy, Dylan Dog, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, horror, Sam Huntington