Action Flick Chick

Action Flick Chick | December 26, 2009

Philip Guest (@MediaTwin) asked what my “favourite romantic/action movie” was. My pick:
@actionchick: Crank: High Voltage (a.k.a. Crank 2)
@actionchick then solicited your thoughts on the matter. As usual, a wide variety of answers emerged, including some that are not action movies (e.g., Shaun of the Dead – having some action does not make it an action movie), [...]

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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 [...]

Category: TV, action, announcement | 4 Comments »
Tags: 6 Feet Under, Academy Award, Amanda Micheli, Balcony Releasing, Best Documentary, Death Proof, documentary, Double dare, Eurlyne Epper, Grindhouse, IDA Award, Independent Film Festival of Boston, Indiana Jones 4, Jeannie Epper, Just for the Ride, Ken Howard, Kill Bill, La Corona, La Faye Baker, Lethal Weapon 3, Luci Romberg, Lucy Lawless, Lynda Carter, Mission: Impossible 2, New York, Ninja Warrior, Oscar, Quentin Tarantino, San Francisco International Film Festival, Sonoma Valley Film Festival, Steven Spielberg, STF, Stranger Than Fiction, stunt, stunt professionals, stunts, stuntwomen, Terry Leonard, Wonder Woman, Woodstock Film Festival, Xena, Xena: Warrior Princess, Zoe Bell, Zombieland

Action Flick Chick | November 12, 2009

It’s often said that go-go dancers are like flowers, so if you’re gonna put someone named Rose McGowan in a movie about zombies, why not make her a go-go dancer, too?

Planet Terror is about a zombie outbreak caused by a release of some nasty chemicals. Penned by Robert “Spy Kids” Rodriguez, Planet Terror came out [...]

Category: * all movie reviews *, 3 kabooms, R-rated, action, horror | 8 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | October 29, 2009

Ask and ye shall receive. No sooner than I said that I needed a theme song, I got one. Wildride Robert Roy already had one locked and loaded, ready for bear. Who knew?
First, check out some of the many suggestions people made.
Suggestions:
Our colleague Arturo, who challenges the entire planet on his blog (“One guy. One [...]

Category: Blog, YouTube, site news, twitter | 4 Comments »
Tags: AC/DC, Amanda Bladon, Andre Meadows, April March, Because I'm Awesome, BlackNerd, cars, Chick Habit, Davy Jones, Death Proof, Don't Wait Up for Me, France Gall, Girl, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Grindhouse, Hour 42, Idiom Films, Joe Cocker, Jordan Ladd, Kurt Russell, Laisse tomber les filles, Led Zeppelin, Living After Midnight, Living Loving Maid, Livvi Franc, Liz Phair, Looks that Kill, Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong, love theme, Marcia Brady, Marlo Thomas, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Motley Crue, Movie Mob, music, Now I'm That Chick, Peter Griffen, Pitbull, Quentin Tarantino, Reelz Channel, Rockbusters, Rolling stones, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, She Smiled Sweetly, song, Surfin' Bird, The Academy, The Bird Is the Word, The Brady Bunch, The Dollyrots, The Donnas, The Family Guy, The Girl, The Monkees, theme song, Tough Chick, Tracie Thoms, Vanessa Ferlito, video, You Shook Me All Night Long, YouTube, Zoe Bell

Action Flick Chick | October 15, 2009

Will it be the ultimate action film? The trailer itself gets five out of five on my action movie scale.
Check out this trailer!

Also: News on Danny Trejo’s involvement and a link to our crew member Marko Head’s interview with Trejo from last year’s Wizard World Texas.

Category: 5 kabooms, Coming Attractions, YouTube, action, movie | 7 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | August 24, 2009

Nein, Nein, Nein! Quit the yackin’ and get to the action! Uggg. For a movie about Nazis and WWII, Inglourious Basterds sure didn’t have much action going on. There was an interesting story though.

Category: * all movie reviews *, 1 kaboom, R-rated, action, movie | 10 Comments »
Tags: action, arson, Bear Jew, bombing, Brad Pitt, brief sexuality, Christoph Waltz, Cloris Leachman, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, German, Hitler, Inglourious Basterds, Jew Hunter, Jewish American, Jews, language, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Nazi, Quentin Tarantino, R-rated, Rorschach, Samuel L. Jackson, scalping, spoiler, strong graphic violence, The Weinstein Company, Til Schweiger, violence, World War II, WWII

Action Flick Chick | August 23, 2009

Written & directed by:
Quentin Tarantino Release Date:
Theatrical: August 21, 2009
Running Time:
153 minutes, Color
Origin: USA |
Germany | France
Language(s):
English | German | French | Italian
RATING: R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality
Starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Cloris Leachman, Samuel L. [...]

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Action Flick Chick | February 11, 2009

Bang bang, he shot me down. Bang bang, I hit the ground. Bang bang, that awful sound. Bang bang, my baby shot me down. –”Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” by Nancy Sinatra.

I’ll take “Inappropriate lullabies to sing to children” for 500, Alex.

Category: * all movie reviews *, 3 kabooms, R-rated, action, movie | 4 Comments »
Tags: bloody violence, Chia Hui Liu, Chicks who don't want flowers, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, Girls Who Don't Want Flowers, gore, Kill Bill, Kill Bill: Volume 1, language, Lucy Liu, Michael Jai White, Michael Madsen, Miramax, Quentin Tarantino, R-rated, some sexual content, The Bride, Uma Thurman, Valentine’s Day, Vivica A. Fox