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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Action Heroine versus Horror Heroine – What’s the Diff?

Action Flick Chick | November 28, 2009

Notice that it’s horror heroine and not horror chick. A film can have a sorority’s worth of horror chicks, but only one horror chick gets to be the Final Girl, that heroine who outlasts all the rest.
Our action heroine Action Flick Chick under her codename @actionchick raised the issue in twitter.
actionchick: action heroine vs. horror heroine [...]

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Paranormal Activity (2009): Did You Hear That?

Action Flick Chick | October 27, 2009

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Paranormal Activity should be called “Did You Hear That?” because it’s what the characters say to each other and what you’ll be saying to your friends during 90% of the movie. This mega low budget horror flick finally got a wide release and has been at absolutely annihilating the box office. I’m not really surprised, though. It’s a sharp indie horror film, one that definitely freaked this chick out- perfect for Halloween!

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Movie Chicks on Horror Flicks: Paranormal Activity (plus an even scarier nerd in the night)

Action Flick Chick | October 16, 2009

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Buzz has gone wild for the low-low-low-itsy-bitsy-teensy-weensy budget ($15,000) fright film Paranormal Activity from DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures.

Read several other fangirls’ linked reviews. Watch the trailer that some people found too scary to sit through, and if you don’t think that’s scary enough, just wait until the Action Flick Chick’s friend Andre Meadows (BlackNerd of Reelz Channel’s Movie Mob) shows you what a nerd does in the dark. You’ve been warned!

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