Features

• 2014 in Action Heroine Films
• 2015 in Action Heroine Films
• 2016 in Action Heroine Films
• 2017 in Action Heroine Films
• 2018 in Action Heroine Films
• 2019 in Action Heroine Films
• 2020 in Action Heroine Films
• 2021 in Action Heroine Films
• 2022 in Action Heroine Films
• 2023 in Action Heroine Films
• 2024 in Action Heroine Films
• The action heroines of Hayao Miyazaki
• Action Heroines of History
• The Action Heroines of Telenovelas
• Aethelflaed: Daughter of Greatness
• Amazons: Miss-ology in fact and fiction
• Amy Johnson: Britain’s Amelia Earhart
• Andy Sidaris: A man, a plan, a genre
• Angela Mao: Lady Kung-fu
• Anna-Nicole Smith, Action Heroine?
• Annie Oakley: the first girl with a gun?
• Arizona Roller Derby: She-Devils on Wheels…
• The Bag Girls 2
• The Baztan Trilogy
• Behind The Women of Armageddon
• Bolivia’s Fighting Cholitas
• Cape Fear: Action heroines, comic-book style
• Cattle Annie and Little Britches: Fact vs. fiction
• The Chameleon series: An algebraic overview
• The (Short) Life and (Quick) Death of Charlie’s Angels
• Codename: Villanelle vs. Killing Eve
• Cops and Robbers, by Thad Brown
• The Crimson Bat series
• Cutthroat Island: 20 years on
• Decoy: The first American policewoman
• (Development) Hell is for Heroines: The Films That Never Were
• The Dirty Pair
• Duel in the Desert
• Duel in the Desert: the aftermath
• Eko Eko Azarak
• Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Crusader Queen
• Fearless Nadia: The first action heroine film superstar?
• Female Terrorists
• Les Femmes Nikita
• The first action heroines
• The Ghost in the Shell universe
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2014
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2015
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2016
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2017
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2018
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2019
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2020
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2021
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2022
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2023
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2024
• Girls With Guns Calendars 2025
• Grace O’Malley: Scourge of the Sea
• Halder Gomes and Sunland Heat: Fun in the Sun
• The History of Roller Derby
• The Incendiary World of Firestarter
• The incredible, true survival story of Juliane Koepcke
• Jade Leung interview (1992 Eastern Heroes)
• Jade Leung: the last action heroine
• Joan of Arc: History vs. Cinema
• Joan-pocalypse Now
• Half an interview with Julien Magnat, of Bloody Mallory
• Kate Bush, Action Heroine
• Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, on its 10th anniversary
• The Long Kiss Goodnight – 25 years on
• The Many Faces of Mulan
• Maria Bochkareva and the Women’s Battalions of Death
• Miss-ed Opportunities: Girls Who Should Have Had Guns…
• The Miss in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• The Molly Holly Interview: From Hair to Eternity…
• “My name is Alice. And I remember everything”: Re-viewing Resident Evil 1-5
• Nautical But Not-So Nice: Women pirates through history
• Night Witches: Red skies at night
• Of Lagertha, valkyries and other Viking era warrior women
• Pearl White: The Heroine of a Thousand Dangerous Stunts
• Pinky violence
• Queen Artemisia of Halicarnassus: Wonder of the World
• Queen Lakshmibai: India’s Joan of Arc
• Queen of the South vs. La Reina Del Sur
• Rina Takeda: The Next Action Heroine?
• Run Lola Run: 20 years on
• Russian World War II Girls With Guns
• The Sasori: Female Prisoner Scorpion series
• The serials of Republic Pictures
• She Are the Robots: the top 10 female cyborgs in film and television
• The Sister Street Fighter series
• Sophie Blanchard: The first aeronautess
• Star Wars: The Rey Awakens
• Sukeban Deka
• Supporting Actresses
• Teenage Kicks: the “last cinematic taboo” of the action-heroine.
• The Three Faces of Gloria
• The universe of Appleseed
• La Viuda Negra vs. Griselda Blanco: Telenovela vs. real-life
• Wholly Trinity
• The Women of Game of Thrones
• The Women of Game of Thrones: Revisited
• The Women of Mission: Impossible
• The World of Battle Angel Alita
• Xena: Warrior Princess
• Zeiram
• The Zero Woman series

Note: the pieces above were either extended reviews, covering a single movie in more depth than usual, or combination pieces, which included an entire series of films or movies connected in some way. Where it was a combination piece, the reviews contained within each entry have also been stripped out and posted individually. But they make more sense read as part of the overall feature; a part may refer back to an earlier component, not available directly from the individual review.