ActionFest Screening: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)!

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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Double Dare (2004) – Stuntwomen Documentary

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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The Wonder Woman TV Never Saw: Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince?

Llama Mama | November 16, 2009

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In 1967, hoping to capitalize on the success on their TV series Batman starring Adam West and Burt Ward, Greenway Productions filmed a five-minute screen test written by Stanley Ralph Ross and Larry Siegel, not even a full-length pilot episode, to pitch a comedic Wonder Woman program to the network.
Unlike Batman which treated its heroes [...]

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