Action Flick Chick

Llama Mama | April 22, 2010

This weekend (April 24-25) our friends who run Dallas Comic-Con are holding their Sci-Fi Expo with special appearances by a nice variety of film entertainers and comic book creators.
Media guests:
Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Serenity, Chuck)
Jaime King (Clone Wars, Scream Queens)
Mira Furlan (Lost, Babylon 5)
Bruce Boxleitner (Tron, Babylon 5, Heroes)
Cindy Morgan (Tron, Caddyshack)
Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica)
Kate Vernon (Battlestar Galactica, [...]

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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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Action Flick Chick | October 20, 2009

The 2007 horror film 30 Days of Night, produced by Sam Raimi and directed by David Slade on a budget of $30 million, grossed $75 million worldwide and continues to rent and sell well on DVD. Its story centers on Barrow, Alaska, where the sun doesn’t shine for a full month. Vampires seize the opportunity [...]

Category: Video Channels, YouTube, announcement, convention, horror, interviews | 8 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | August 3, 2009

Since I posed the question “What is the worst superpower to have?” on the site to get your feedback, I also thought my team and I would see what some celebrities at San Diego Comic-Con International ’09 would have to say. Respondents varied in how they interpreted “worst” with regard to whether it meant most inconvenient, [...]

Category: convention, interviews, twitter | 11 Comments »
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