G33K & G4M3R GIRLS Fangirl Furor: Should Geek and Gamer Girls Go Sexy, Sexless, Something Else?

Action Flick Chick | September 22, 2010

Team Unicorn (left to right): Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd, Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant

Team Unicorn: Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd, Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant

In its first week, Team Unicorn’s “G33k & G4m3r Girls” video (a.k.a. “Geek and Gamer Girls Song”), a parody of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” reached a million views at Break.com, hitting the million mark the same morning I posted an interview with team members Michele Boyd, Clare [...]

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Reasons to Love Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Ash | September 9, 2010

Action Flick Chick Katrina met Lloyd Kaufman, head of Troma Entertainment (home to The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Tromeo and Juliet), during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International. “Speaking of action CHICKS,” Kaufman asked later, “have you reviewed the Brown Ray DVD of POULTRYGEIST? Or even the 35mm print?”
Who could refuse? [...]

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Coming Attraction: AMC’s Original Zombie Drama “The Walking Dead”

Action Flick Chick | August 25, 2010

AMC LAUNCHES NEWEST ORIGINAL DRAMA THE WALKING DEAD WITH A 90-MINUTE PREMIERE EPISODE ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 10PM
Series Stars Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, and others. Written, Directed, & Executive-Produced by Frank Darabont, Executive Produced by Gale Anne Hurd.
New York, NY – August 2010 –  AMC’s newest original [...]

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Action Chicks Training Academy! Enroll Now for Fall Classes

Llama Mama | August 23, 2010

Professor Leeloo Dallas Multipass.

 Action Flick Chick: What courses would the Action Chicks Training Academy offer? 
Answers came from Facebook and twitter. 
Cristina Bogdan: Feathers for anihilation 101.
Tanner Gibson: Kicking Cell Spammers Ass?
Charissa Gilmore Duff: Shotgun speed reloading, group recon tactics, and the appropriate use of sweatproof/waterproof/smudgeproof makeup.
Armita Pebdani: High Speeds in High Heels 500
Wendy Harrington: Stiletto Stance 101
Stiletto Stunning 102
Stiletto [...]

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San Diego Comic-Con 2010: Sergio Aragones Is King!

Action Flick Chick | August 4, 2010

During my SDCC visit, I had some down time between all the action stuff and happened upon a Quick Draw panel that turned out to be one of my favorites. This panel was hosted by Mark Evanier (Writer, Comics Historian, Groo the Wanderer, Kirby: King of Comics) and featured three very talented artists, Sergio Aragones [...]

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Who Should Star in New Charlie’s Angels? with Blu-Ray Giveaway!

Llama Mama | July 30, 2010

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) placed an order for TV pilots and scripts for potential mid-season replacement series including a potential new Charlie’s Angels from Sony TV with writers Al Gough and Miles Millar. This order does not yet mean another Angels movie couldn’t hit theaters anyway. Charlie’s Angels producers Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen told [...]

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Comic-Con Panel: Best Superheroine Movie? No, the ONLY Theatrical Superheroine Movie

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. [...]

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Wired Interviews the Action Flick Chick: ‘Action Chick’ Looks at Comic-Con’s Geek Girls

Action Flick Chick | July 26, 2010

Hugh Hart of Wired.com interviews Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill about Wired’s choices for the “26 Most Awesome Female Ass-Kickers.”
From Wired:
Fierce female characters are gaining traction in the pop-culture landscape, but even in 2010, guys still outnumber women in starring roles for movies, TV, comics and videogames. Several Comic-Con International panels this weekend look at [...]

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