Female action heroes are having a moment. Once the exclusive big-screen domain of he-men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and ...

More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films ...

Let’s face it—cinema would not be what it is today without women who have pushed against the system, shattered barriers, and ...

The connecting theme of this list is that all three movies feature female action heroes. And it’s a positive sign for the genre that we didn’t have to look far to find these films.

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The Female Action Hero is much more rare. Like Eve, she was born out of her relationship to her male counterparts, and held to such narrow expectations that we have few successful examples. The ...

I Also Like That Sara Isn’t Sexualized Sometimes action movies put their female action heroes in tight outfits, dresses, or make them behave in ways to emphasize their sex appeal.

Having a female director and producer in charge of Amazon Prime Video’s new action movie ‘100% changed’ the approach on set, one of its stars has said. And for British actor Douglas Hodge ...

The movie opens with Grier blasting a guy’s head off with a shotgun and only gets more intense from there. But it’s not just the action that’s memorable.

There's long been a misconception that action films are a masculine domain. But female strength and agility have been showcased on the big screen since the silent era.

Action movies have long been a male-centric genre, yet in recent years women have steadily shown that they can kick butt with the best of them. A myriad of memorable and thrilling female-driven ...

And if they’re also for women, then women should be writing them as well.” The action movies that top $100 million, now and always, almost exclusively feature strong women as stars or co-stars.