Season Premiere of Terra Nova: Don’t Let the Dinosaurs Get You!

Action Flick Chick | September 27, 2011

Fox premiered one of its new shows last night called Terra Nova. The show begins in the year 2149 where the planet’s resources are just about gone, the air is so polluted that everyone has to wear a mask, and the earth is so over populated that there’s a restriction on the number of children [...]

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Spoiler Free Super 8 (2011): What Is That Thing?

Action Flick Chick | June 13, 2011

Jump in your time machine and go back to 1979 when there were no iPads or even cell phones! This was also the time when movies were filmed by using Super 8 cartridges (a roll of 8mm wide film,) instead of the all digital route. Hmmm, sounds like a lot more work. I think I [...]

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Interview: Danielle Nicolet (Syfy’s Red Faction: Origins, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

Action Flick Chick | June 4, 2011

Tonight Syfy premieres the original motion picture Red Faction: Origins, a feature-length television series pilot based on the popular Red Faction video game franchise. The movie stars Brian J. Smith as Jake Mason and Robert Patrick as Alec Mason, the main protagonist of Red Faction: Guerilla. The film takes place between Red Faction: Guerilla and [...]

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TV Series Falling Skies (2011): Where’s Chicken Little When You Need Him?

Action Flick Chick | May 20, 2011

Note: There are no spoilers.

Get ready for television series that is not a reality show and doesn’t suck (so far as I’ve seen)! Falling Skies is an upcoming science fiction show that starts in the aftermath of an alien invasion. Yes! It’s quite refreshing to see an alien apocalypse instead of zombies. When you really [...]

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Sci-Fi Expo Convention: Women’s Contributions to Science Fiction!

Action Flick Chick | February 3, 2011

Official Pix held their annual Sci-Fi Expo last weekend in Dallas, Texas. This year’s convention focused on the women of sci-fi, with guests such as Morena Baccarin, Katee Sackoff, Nichelle Nichols, and Yvonne Craig to name just a few. The Sci-Fi Expo helped give these women some much needed recognition for all the hard [...]

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Coming Attraction: Drive Angry (2011)

Action Flick Chick | October 21, 2010

Nicolas Cage is being chased by the Devil’s right hand man! Again! No, it’s not a Ghost Rider sequel, it’s Drive Angry. Milton (Cage) busts out of Hell in order to save his baby granddaughter from a cult that has already killed his daughter. In the meantime, Satan wants Milton back, so he sends a [...]

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Webseries: Universal Dead Starring Doug Jones, D. B. Sweeney, Gary Graham Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture – in 3-D!

Action Flick Chick | October 7, 2010

Left: Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill. Right: Universal Dead

Universal Dead turned out to be one of the highlights at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International, where Paramount Pictures announced that it would be the first webseries to become a full-length major motion picture. Writer/producer Kelly Parks told me that he and director/producer Vernon Mortensen have been busy in pre-production for the 3-D feature [...]

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Coming Attraction: Skyline (2010)

Action Flick Chick | September 29, 2010

Aliens! Don’t look into the light lest you be taken! Acting as both directors and producers, the Brothers Strause have given us the science fiction/thriller film, Skyline, in which humans and extraterrestrials play BINGO! So maybe they don’t play BINGO, but space ships do come to Earth and start mesmerizing humans with their pretty lights [...]

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