Carrie (1976)

Action Flick Chick | February 20, 2010

Before: Happy normal Carrie!

Another chick who doesn’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day is Carrie White. This telekinetic young girl will protect herself and exact revenge on anyone who messes with her. Well, she might actually want some flowers and a maybe a kind word or two, but instead gets a lifetime of terrorizing by her classmates AND her [...]

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Bloodsport (1988): You Just Got Van Dammed!

Action Flick Chick | January 6, 2010

Bloodsport

Oh, snap! You just got Van Dammed! That’s what Bloodsport should be called because Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks an astonishing amount of butt. Bloodsport is a great classic action film starring Van Damme as Frank Dux, along with fellow actors Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, and Bolo Yeung. Van Damme (Dux) enters the most brutal, illegal, [...]

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Action Heroine versus Horror Heroine – What’s the Diff?

Action Flick Chick | November 28, 2009

Notice that it’s horror heroine and not horror chick. A film can have a sorority’s worth of horror chicks, but only one horror chick gets to be the Final Girl, that heroine who outlasts all the rest.
Our action heroine Action Flick Chick under her codename @actionchick raised the issue in twitter.
actionchick: action heroine vs. horror heroine [...]

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Planet Terror (2007): Good Barbecue!

Action Flick Chick | November 12, 2009

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It’s often said that go-go dancers are like flowers, so if you’re gonna put someone named Rose McGowan in a movie about zombies, why not make her a go-go dancer, too?

Planet Terror is about a zombie outbreak caused by a release of some nasty chemicals. Penned by Robert “Spy Kids” Rodriguez, Planet Terror came out [...]

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Movie Chicks on Action Flicks: Law Abiding Citizen

Action Flick Chick | October 19, 2009

Law Abiding Citizen trailer on YouTube.

RATING: R for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language.
Starring Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby, Regina Hall, and Viola Davis.
Plot: Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are [...]

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Interview with David Leitch (Matrix, 300, Wolverine, Bourne Ultimatum, Confessions of an Action Star) Pt. 1

Action Flick Chick | May 15, 2009

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I had the great pleasure of talking to David Leitch, stunt coordinator, stunt double, director, and actor. He’s a very talented man that has worked on some very well known movies such as The Matrix Revolutions, 300, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and The Bourne Ultimatum, and the list goes on and on

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Reindeer Games (2000)

Action Flick Chick | December 4, 2008

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And so the Christmas season is upon us. Well, it’s been upon us for about 2 months now, but I refuse to engage in Christmas activities before Thanksgiving. Come on people!

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Sex and the City (2008) – Worst Action Ever

Action Flick Chick | November 28, 2008

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Am I the only girl who doesn’t see men as worthless individuals and only good for one thing? This movie sure seems to think so.

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