Action Flick Chick | May 13, 2011
Ever wish you had the chance to get back at the boss who undermined you? The spouse who cheated on you? The friend who deceived you? One night, a down-on-his-luck businessman, Allan Campbell (Cole Hauser), meets a mysterious stranger, Jonas Arbor (Cuba Gooding Jr.), who claims to be a professional hit [...]
Action Flick Chick | April 14, 2011
Watching Hanna and expecting a blood-soaked action movie is like watching softcore porn when you are expecting hardcore porn. You’re really excited and into it at first, then as time goes on and they don’t get to the good stuff, you start getting disappointed, confused, and maybe a little blue. However, if you go into [...]
Action Flick Chick | January 31, 2011
It’s been a while since I’ve linked a song with a movie so here you go. Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) and almost every male in The Mechanic can best be summarized by Paula Abdul’s song “Cold Hearted.” For those of you who aren’t cool like me and don’t know the song, these are the lyrics [...]
Action Flick Chick | December 29, 2010
I guess since Kick-Ass’s Hitgirl was such a hit, Hollywood has decided to try it again with Hanna. This time a 14-year-old girl played by The Lovely Bones‘ Saoirse Ronan is trained by her father (Eric Bana) to be the perfect assassin. It looks like the film might be an hour and a half of a [...]
Action Flick Chick | November 16, 2010
I’m pretty excited about The Warrior’s Way. The trailer is action packed and that’s what I care about! This is a marital arts film starring Jang Dong-Gun , Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, and Danny Huston. Jang Dong-Gun plays Yang, the world’s greatest swordsman, who abandons his warrior clan to start a life in a small [...]
Action Flick Chick | September 7, 2010
Action, romance, and comedy. Can they really be mixed together in a way that all the different genres shine? There have been some successful attempts like True Lies and some not so successful attempts like…well, I don’t know because I usually try to stay away from anything under the romance category. However, I finally decided [...]
Action Flick Chick | August 29, 2010
Can a romantic comedy be an action movie too? I’m not just talking about a humorous film that has both action and romance in it. The Action Flick Chick has never reviewed any romantic comedy, much less an action rom com. What is an action rom com anyway? One random participant in our discussion on that particular subject [...]
Action Flick Chick | July 29, 2010
In our “Where Are the Action Chicks?” panel at San Diego Comic-Con International, we examined the dearth of action heroines in movies and comic books, including an examination of the reasons why there are so few despite the great popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, Aliens‘ Ripley, Terminator’s Sarah Connor, and certain others. [...]
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