What happens when you take Buffy, Lisbeth Salander, Katniss Everdeen and other favourite action heroines – along with the whiny Bella from Twilight! – and make them live together in a house? You get the BAMF Girls Club…
Category: Videos
Nikita Season 3 trailer
We reviewed season 2 of Nikita this month, so it seems appropriate to make the trailer for the next series, our video highlight. The new season starts October 19 on the CW.
Young (wrestling) guns, go for it!
Things you won’t see in American wrestling, #29. This Japanese tag bout features Manami Toyota and Tsukasa Fujimoto. But their partners are aged eleven and fourteen years old respectively. And you thought Hit Girl was an invention of fiction…
Kirot nightclub assassination scene
The Assassin Next Door, a.k.a. Kirot, reviewed this month, has Olga Kurylenko as a gangland assassin, forced into killing for the Israeli mob with the lure of being able to return to her child in Russia. Here’s one of her jobs, featuring some impressively Palma-esque camerawork.
Haywire opening
The winner of last month’s poll, for most anticipated action-heroine film of 2012, was Haywire. So, to mark its victory, here’s the first five minutes of the movie.
Angel end fight
If you read last month’s review of Angel – and if you haven’t, go do so and we’ll wait! – you’ll know it was one of the formative influences of the genre. The clip below shows you exactly why, as Moon Lee (with support from Elaine Lui) and Yukari Oshima go toe-to-toe. Almost 25 years later, it’s still up there in terms of hard-hitting F/F action. No subs. But trust us: it doesn’t need them.
An ultra-violent Christmas story
Since it’s the festive season, here’s a dark, girls-with-guns skewed retelling of A Christmas Story. Careful, you’ll have someone’s eye out with that thing…
Raze promo
Zoe Bell! Squeeee! Sorry. Got a bit over-excited there. Where was I? This is just a teaser for Raze, a survival horror film that’s being pitched as somewhere between Fight Club for women, and Hostel. And being a teaser, it’s short on actual content. But if it has Bell kicking ass – and that certainly would seem to be the case – along with Rachel Nichols from the last chunks of Alias, then we’re looking forward to it. 2012 is looking like a decent year for action heroines already…
Haywire trailer
Steven Soderbergh in the action-heroine genre? Looks like it, with MMA stat Gina Carano turning her hand to acting, as a government agent gone wrong. We’ve all seen that before, but I think Carano’s background will make this a little more credible than is just being “Bourne with breasts.” Here’s the trailer; the film is out in January, and seems a credible early contender for 2012 Action Heroine of the Year.
Girls Guns Girls Guns
Frank, the creator, sent me this one. It’s not a trailer for an actual movie – more’s the pity – and only runs about 35 seconds, but I think you’ll find, even given its brief duration, it pushes all the appropriate buttons!