YouTube, MySpace and their cousins have made it all the easier for action heroine fans to get their entertainment fix. Each month, we pick one clip to feature: this is the archives of the previous nominees.

December 2009

Angelina Jolie is likely the queen of Hollywood action heroines: not just for her roles as Lara Croft, but also in Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Wanted, delivering the perfect mix of attitude and aggression necessary to the genre. Hence, Salt is one of our most-anticipated action films of 2010, in which she plays a operative who finds herself... Well, just watch the trailer, it'll fill you in on the detals.

November 2009

Thailand seems to be going through what the Hong Kong movie industry did in the eighties - a sudden discovery of action heroines. Chocolate paved the way - we'll be covering the latest film of its star, JeeJa Vismistananda, next month - but others appear to be leaping on the bandwagon. Here's a trailer for The Vanquisher [even if the trailer gets that spelled wrong!]. Looks kinda promising.

October 2009

"In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia (Olga Kurylenko of Quantum of Solace and Neil Marshall's upcoming Centurion) is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia. All she wants is to reunite with her daughter that she left back home in Ukraine. Elinor (Ninet Tayeb) is a grocery store cashier and a battered wife. She dreams of winning the lottery and running away from her abusive husband. Galia and Elinor don't know each other, but as neighbors they share two things: an adjoining wall and a strong need to plan their escape. After Galia disobeys her latest contract and Elinor discovers that she's pregnant, the two women decide to take action against their oppressors in a fight for survival and freedom." I particularly like the line, "You hold gun like little girl. Hold gun like woman."

September 2009

There's nothing worse than going to the convenience store, and you really want to get in and out quickly, only to find that the person in front of you is... Well, you'll see, in Dylan Pearce's short, First in Line.

July 2009

Hooray. I finally fixed the bug that was causing massive problems with the internal video player on the archive pages. Should all work fine now. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. :-) Here's the trailer for Blood: The Last Vampire. It's a live-action version of the anime we previously reviewed, and just came out in limited release at the cinema: reviews have been somewhat mixed, shall we say, but I think it still merits a look, based on the trailer. If the trailer doesn't load, here is the YouTube link.

May 2009

We covered Black Magic M-66, so here's a clip from the show to illustrate the point. It's subtitled in Italian, but non-Latin readers should not find this impacting their enjoyment too much. It's just after reporter Sybel has found herself arrested by the army, and taken to the road-block where they are awaiting the arrival of the two rogue androids. Hilarity ensues...or not!

April 2009

This month we reviewed Chickfight, and one of the flaws I criticized was that the cage-fight wasn't up to the standard I expected from such things. To show you exactly what I mean, here's the cage-match which I mentioned there, between Tomoko Watanabe and Kumiko Maekawa vs. Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda. It's in two parts, so sit back and enjoy it.

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March 2009

I miss Buffy.

February 2009

Here's a bit of Flash fun: bikini catfights on the beach! Don't worry, nobody gets really hurt here ...Use the left, right and down arrow keys to attack. Press a different attack key before your character finishes her attack move for a combo attack. Press the spacebar to dodge attacks. Fool your opponent into a dodge by pressing the up arrow key, this gives you a time advantage to place an attack. Arrow keys to attack, and spacebar to dodge. Have fun!

January 2009

We normally aim to keep things PG-13 rated here, but occasionally we will slide over the line to the territory of 'Not Safe For Work'. This would be one of those times. We'll say no more, except that Ride of the Valkyries will never seem the same again.

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