Action Flick Chick

Action Flick Chick | September 17, 2010

In its first week, Team Unicorn’s ”G33k & G4m3r Girls” (a.k.a. the ”Geek and Gamer Girls Song”) has racked up a million views at Break.com. Their parody of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” celebrates the fact that women can be into comic books, anime, manga, sci-fi, fantasy, tech, all kinds of gaming, and so many other nerdy delights.
Team Unicorn features Michele Boyd, Clare [...]

Category: interviews | 14 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | July 12, 2010

This year, geek girls are conquering San Diego Comic-Con International. Look at all the awesome things we’re up to.
THURSDAY, JULY 22
5:30-6:30 Geek Girls Exist— Really? Kristin Rielly (Geek Girls Network) leads a discussion about growing up geek, turning passions into careers, and who shot first. Representing the many awesome aspects of the geek culture, panelists [...]

Category: announcement, convention | 7 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | July 5, 2010

Christopher Nolan directs the sci-fi thriller Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This film looks like it might actually be worth seeing it in an IMAX theater because it looks disorienting and amazing.The film’s story centers around technology that has the capability to place one person in another person’s mind through dreams. [...]

Category: Coming Attractions, action, movie, science fiction | 5 Comments »
Tags: action, Action Flick Chick, Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, IMAX, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, sci-fi, thriller

Action Flick Chick | July 2, 2010

After seeing Predators listed among the movies I’m eager to see in July, someone on twitter commented, “I don’t think predators will be any good. It is just full of violence,” which is absolutely fine as a basis for their own expectations but a little amusing for me because that’s not exactly a turn-off to [...]

Category: Coming Attractions | 3 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | May 23, 2010

SciFi Summer Girl’s Off Day is an amusing short action film (and by short, I mean 6 minutes). It reveals the actual truth that people tend to overlook: A heroine never gets a day off. Trust me, I would know ! There’s always some kind of evil force hanging around trying to kill, kidnap, [...]

Category: Independent | 2 Comments »
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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 | April 3, 2010

Manuel Yoro, @monkeyjedi on twitter, got this shirt printed in order to pimp some favorite websites at WonderCon in San Francisco, California, this weekend. 
Manuel, who created this shirt unbenownst to any of us and wore it at WonderCon, is  co-founder of Someone Else’s Clothes  (VISIT IT!)  as well as ”Writer. Director. Sometime actor. Blogger. Monkey. Jedi.” Read [...]

Category: convention, twitter | 2 Comments »
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Action Flick Chick | March 11, 2010

Odds are that if you’re around my age, you’re not too familiar with Tron, or its upcoming sequel, Tron Legacy. Well, I’ll be honest and say that I wasn’t especially interested in the new film. Until now. Watch the trailer and enjoy!

Tron Legacy comes out Dec. 17, and yeah, it looks absolutely awesome.
It’s missing something [...]

Category: Coming Attractions, science fiction | 1 Comment »
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