Action Flick Chick

Action Flick Chick | September 10, 2010

Cracked.com has posted some smart and interesting analyses of important issues related to your survival during the zombie apocalypse – like the scientific reasons why a zombie outbreak could occur, how a viral-based zombie outbreak would not spread too rapidly, and which zombie combat maneuvers will probably just get you killed. One recent article looked at how [...]

Category: Facebook, horror, twitter | 8 Comments »
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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. [...]

Category: convention | 24 Comments »
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Llama Mama | April 15, 2010

While preparing for July’s upcoming San Diego Comic-Con International panel (“Where Are the Action Chicks?” starring Katrina Hill, Jill Pantozzi, Adrianne Curry, Jennifer Stuller, a certain stuntwoman we adore, and somebody to surprise you all), our heroine posed a question on Facebook and twitter. She already knew her own answer but wondered how others would view the [...]

Category: action, superhero, twitter | 8 Comments »
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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 [...]

Category: Versus, action, horror | 4 Comments »
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