Tag Archives: mystery

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996): Kiss Me Charly One More Time

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Action Flick Chick

Merry Christmas, kids! Your mom is a trained assassin and can snap a guy’s neck with one hand while baking a pie with the other. Continue reading →

Posted in * all movie reviews *, 3.5 kabooms, action, Christmas, movie, R-rated | Tagged action, Assassin, bloody violence, Brian Cox, Christmas, Craig Bierko, Crime, David Morse, Forge, Geena Davis, mild female nudity, mystery, Patrick Malahide, R-rated, Renny Harlin, Samuel L. Jackson, Shane Black, strong language, The Long Kiss Goodnight, thriller, Tom Amandes | 3 Comments

Coming Attraction: Super 8 (2011)!

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Action Flick Chick

A mystery will unravel soon as Super 8, written and directed by J. J. Abrams, hits theaters this summer. A group of kids are making their own film when a train crashes behind them. Not everything on that train was … Continue reading →

Posted in Coming Attractions, movie, trailers | Tagged Action Flick Chick, coming attraction, dogs, J.J. Abrams, mystery, Super 8 | 2 Comments

Surrogates (2009): Die Hardly or How to Underuse Bruce Willis

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Action Flick Chick

Surrogates summary in 21 words:

This isn’t an action film or comedy. The plot is interesting in theory but poorly executed. It was okay, not great.
End of summary. Thank you, thank you.
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Posted in * all movie reviews *, 1 kaboom, action, movie, PG-13, science fiction | Tagged action, Boris Kodjoe, Brett Weldele, Bruce Willis, drama, drug-related scene, graphic novel, I Robot, James Cromwell, James Francis Ginty, John D. Brancato, Jonathan Mostow, language, Michael Ferris, mystery, Radha Mitchell, Robert Venditti, robot, Rosamund Pike, sci-fi, science fiction, sexuality, spoiler, Surrogates, Touchstone Pictures, Ving Rhames, violence | 10 Comments

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Action Flick Chick

She’s a motorcycle riding, leather wearing, gun slinging tomb raider in the movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Croft is an independent woman who can take care of her own problems by using two guns and plain old fashioned ass kicking. Boys, tuck away your junk because Croft doesn’t mess around. She plays for keeps. Continue reading →

Posted in * all movie reviews *, 4 kabooms, action, movie, PG-13, video game | Tagged action violence, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Girls Who Don't Want Flowers, Iain Glen, John Zinman, Jon Voight, Laeta Kalogridis, Lara Croft, Leslie Phillips, Mark Collie, Michael Colleary, Mike Werb, mystery, Nudity, Paramount Pictures, Partial Nudity, Patrick Massett, PG-13, Red Dwarf, sensuality, Simon West, Tomb Raider, video games | 4 Comments

Quarantine (2008)

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Action Flick Chick

I didn’t know what to expect and I think because of that, it was a very tense and scary movie to watch. I say that because I have heard that the trailers give away some key plot points of the movie that kind of ruins it for you. So beware of the trailers! Continue reading →

Posted in * all movie reviews *, 3 kabooms, horror, movie, R-rated | Tagged action, Columbus Short, Dania Ramirez, disturbing content, Drew Dowdle, Greg Germann, horror, horror movie, Jaume Balagueró, Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, John Erick Dowdle, Jonathon Schaech, language, Luis Berdejo, mystery, Paco Plaza, Quarantine, R-rated, Rade Sherbedgia, Sony Pictures, Steve Harris, suspense, terror, thriller, violent, zombie | 3 Comments