Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t get abducted by aliens (unless you’re into that kind of thing). The McPherson Tape perfectly fits the Thanksgiving holiday since it’s about aliens invading a small family’s house in the country in Connecticut- just like the English Colonists invaded Native American lands! Only these aliens don’t sit down and have a friendly feast with the humans in The McPherson Tape…or do they?
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I can’t resist a Sylvester Stallone film. Dude is 76 and still starring in action movies like he’s 30. In his 50 plus year career as an actor, he’s played more leading heroes than most actors could ever dream of, but never a superhero. Enter Samaritan (2022).
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Slumber Party Massacre II (SPM II): Fasten your seatbelts for one hell of a bumpy, mystifying journey that you may or may not enjoy! You will, however, come away from SPM II with…feelings. Those feelings might be confusion, hatred, amped up love for rockabilly musicals, a renewed affection for slasher films, or (gasp!) contemplation.
Continue readingGerard Butler + Morgan Freeman + Aaron Eckhart= Die Hard set in the White House. Yes, please! With that kind of math, what else is there to say?
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!
Just kidding!
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The “Damsel in Distress” trope is one of the oldest, and most annoying tropes to still exist. This is 2022, knock that shit off already. Yes, I do recognize that in order to really stick it to the protagonist, sometimes someone close to them has to be threatened in order to raise the stakes- and sometimes it will be a woman. But it doesn’t always have to be a woman like a majority of films in the past (and the context always makes a big difference). The entertainment industry is getting a little better about representing women in games, tv shows, and films, and The Princess (2022) is one such film.
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Let’s go back to the teenage years where slumber parties were bountiful and all the girls got naked in front of each other while changing clothes. What fun! Oh, those were the days…but did women always get naked in front of each other as horror movies suggest? This journalist investigates with The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).
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It’s time for humans to play prey to another Predator! This time there isn’t a Schwarzenegger to save the day as Prey (2022) is set about 300 years ago before any other Predator film. Our protagonist, Naru (Amber Midthunder) is a sharp-eyed, smart woman who wants more than anything to be respected as a hunter rather than forced into being a gatherer/caregiver as is expected of the women in her Comanche tribe.
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It should be no surprise to hear that this Action Chick is a huge fan of Sylvester Stallone and the Rambo series in general. In fact, it was after watching Rambo (the fourth one) that I decided I just had to share how awesome the film was, and thus the Action Flick Chick emerged from the jungle armed and ready to review movies. So yes, I am a fangirl of Rambo. That is, until Rambo: Last Blood (2019).
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