Action Flick Chick

Action Flick Chick | February 10, 2012

Friends assure me I’ve watched the movie Elektra – tried to watch it anyway. Apparently I turned it on and the thing put me to sleep. Twice.
ActionChick Movie most memorable for having put you to sleep? The power of ZZZZZ….
Answers on Facebook:
Autograph Hound: Believe it or not, The Godfather. And I love James Caan.
Branden Drew: [...]

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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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Llama Mama | November 20, 2009

Of out of all the things she writes about, the Action Flick Chick gets the greatest volume of favorable responses for her coverage of motion picture stunt professionals.
The documentary Double Dare (2004) looks at two very real Hollywood stuntwoman, Jeannie Epper and Zoë Bell (who appears as herself in the Grindhouse film Death Proof – review coming [...]

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Action Flick Chick | November 12, 2009

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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Action Flick Chick | October 29, 2009

Ask and ye shall receive. No sooner than I said that I needed a theme song, I got one. Wildride Robert Roy already had one locked and loaded, ready for bear. Who knew?
First, check out some of the many suggestions people made.
Suggestions:
Our colleague Arturo, who challenges the entire planet on his blog (“One guy. One [...]

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