Coming Attraction: The Avengers! (2012)

Action Flick Chick | October 13, 2011

Are you ready for your heads to explode from all the power shoved into one movie? Well, I don’t think you can ever be fully prepared for the greatness that is The Avengers!! Joss Whedon of Buffy the freakin’ Vampire Slayer fame is directing this bad boy, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. The cast [...]

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Ass-Kicking Action Flick Chicks of 2010! Plus YOUR 2010 Faves and 2011 Picks!

Action Flick Chick | January 7, 2011

special by Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill for Newsarama:
Twenty-five years ago, action movies were filled with extremely muscled good guys fighting extremely muscled bad guys in order to save their helpless wives, girlfriends, or daughters…and in some cases to save the world (which everyone appreciates, by the way.) While those films are awesome, there has been [...]

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G33K & G4M3R GIRLS Fangirl Furor: Should Geek and Gamer Girls Go Sexy, Sexless, Something Else?

Action Flick Chick | September 22, 2010

Team Unicorn (left to right): Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd, Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant

Team Unicorn: Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd, Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant

In its first week, Team Unicorn’s “G33k & G4m3r Girls” video (a.k.a. “Geek and Gamer Girls Song”), a parody of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” reached a million views at Break.com, hitting the million mark the same morning I posted an interview with team members Michele Boyd, Clare [...]

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Comic-Con Panel Video: Where Are the Action Chicks?

Action Flick Chick | September 4, 2010

Continued from”Comic-Con Panel: Best Superheroine Movie? No, the ONLY Theatrical Superheroine Movie.”
In a San Diego Comic-Con International panel, some friends and I discussed the shortage of superheroines and other action heroines in leading roles in movies and comic books.
The Panel:
* Katrina Hill, Action Flick Chick (@ActionChick), G4TV’s Next Woman of the Web, PoP’s current Fangirl of [...]

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Wired Interviews the Action Flick Chick: ‘Action Chick’ Looks at Comic-Con’s Geek Girls

Action Flick Chick | July 26, 2010

Hugh Hart of Wired.com interviews Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill about Wired’s choices for the “26 Most Awesome Female Ass-Kickers.”
From Wired:
Fierce female characters are gaining traction in the pop-culture landscape, but even in 2010, guys still outnumber women in starring roles for movies, TV, comics and videogames. Several Comic-Con International panels this weekend look at [...]

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Girls’ Guide to Comic-Con with Ninja Tricks – L.A. Times Article by Geek Girls United

Geek Girls United! | July 20, 2010

Check out our L.A. Times article!

There’s a common misconception, especially in the outsider-media coverage, that female fans are “only going” to Comic-Con to scream for the famous men — we can’t simply be geeks because, well, we’re female. As you can imagine, it’s easy to feel slighted when confronted with that mindset and, for many ladies, [...]

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Geek Girls Conquer San Diego Comic-Con 2010 – Do We Ever!

Action Flick Chick | July 12, 2010

This year, geek girls are conquering San Diego Comic-Con International. Look at all the awesome things we’re up to.
THURSDAY, JULY 22
5:30-6:30 Geek Girls Exist— Really? Kristin Rielly (Geek Girls Network) leads a discussion about growing up geek, turning passions into careers, and who shot first. Representing the many awesome aspects of the geek culture, panelists [...]

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Our Comic-Con Panel! Where Are the Action Chicks?

Action Flick Chick | July 9, 2010

At last! Comic-Con is posting their schedule later than ever this year, although no later than they’d said they would. We finally get to post the complete information about our “Where Are the Action Chicks?” panel. Bringing together a number of online friends and several others I look forward to meeting, I’ll lead a discussion on [...]

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