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 | 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 | June 27, 2011
One of the most interesting and fun documentaries I’ve ever seen is Machete Maidens: Unleashed! Thanks to ActionFest 2011, I was able to watch this documentary about the Filipino genre filmmaking. The filmmakers and actresses behind the Filipino movies of the 70’s and 80’s talk about the horrid filming conditions, the outrageous stunts, and the [...]
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Action Flick Chick | June 28, 2010
Nilbog!!! Did you know nilbog is goblin spelled backwards? If you didn’t know that, then go immediately to your Netflix queue and snag Troll 2, so you can familiarize yourself with this hilariously bad movie (“Troll 2 (1990): Reasons Not to Eat Green Eggs and Ham”). After that, you can learn more about nilbogs and [...]
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Action Flick Chick | June 7, 2010
Do you remember that awful movie Troll 2? The movie that’s so epically awful that it’s also hilarious and awesome!?! I would have to say that Troll 2 is my favorite best worst movie right now, and I have seen a lot of bad movies. There’s just never a dull moment in that film and [...]
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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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