Action Flick Chick

Action Flick Chick | March 1, 2011

Sometimes we forget that behind a lot of the creatures we see in a film, there is a living, breathing actor working in these suits in order to bring them to life. Brian Steele is one of these actors. Steele is nicknamed CreatureBoy for a good reason! You may not recognize his face, and that’s [...]

Category: action, interviews | 4 Comments »
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Llama Mama | November 18, 2010

“This Oracle Moon” star Doug Jones tells Katrina about his current projects. Austin Comic Con.

Inspired by the classic radio tales once delivered by masters of mystery like Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Tales from Beyond the Pale brings us weekly audio tales of the macabre. This week’s episode, “This Oracle Moon” directed by Jeff Buhler (Insanitarium), stars Ron [...]

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Action Flick Chick | June 12, 2010

Following up on her previous topic, “Dumbest Movie Death,” the Action Flick Chick asked more specifically, “Which movie villains died too easily?” A few of the same names came up both times – especially names out of Star Wars.  
WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND!!!!!  
 Tanner Gibson: WHIPLASH! Geez, that was the biggest problem with Iron Man 2!  
 Ric Mulligan: Whiplash [...]

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Tags: Beelzebub, Boba Fett, clown, Dark Knight, Darth Maul, Die Hard, Dieter Von Cunth, Emperor Palpatine, Gary Oldman, Gzus, Hans Gruber, Hellboy, Iron Man 2, Jerry Falwell, Lost, MacGruber, Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare, scary-ass clowns, Shaft, Smoke Monster, Star Wars, The Dark Knight, The Fallen, The Legend of Chun Li, The Man in Black, The Phantom Menace, The Professional, The Return of the Jedi, Transformers 2, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Two-Face, Vega, Whiplash, zombie clown, Zombieland

Action Flick Chick | April 4, 2010

A lot of people have been asking about me at WonderCon, which is pretty sweet of them. Nathan Hamill hoped I’d do the con as Slave Leia. My convention plans for April are focused on Texas Frightmare Weekend’s film festival (more on that this week) and hopefully something else along the way. In the meantime, Manuel Yoro (@monkeyjedi) surprised [...]

Category: convention, twitter | 3 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | January 15, 2009

I HAVE BEEN TRICKED! IF YOU’RE NOT CAREFUL YOU WILL BE TRICKED TOO. Here I was thinking Hellboy II was an action movie, and probably a pretty good one at that, but what I got instead was a movie filled with plot and a foofy schmoofy love story.

Category: * all movie reviews *, 2.5 kabooms, PG-13, action, movie, science fiction, superhero | 1 Comment »
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