With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Nowadays we can confidently make a top 10 list with the best female-led action movies, not only because there’s a pool to choose from but because they are actually good and the box office shows ...

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 ...

Although action movies have made strides made in recent years, they could still use far more female-centered stories. Netflix is adding to that roster with The Mother, which follows an assassin ...

The landscape of action movies was forever changed in 1999 when The Wachowskis released the groundbreaking and mind-bending box office smash hit, The Matrix. With the movie, and the directors ...

Back in 1990, Luc Besson's fourth feature film, La Femme Nikita, hit U.S. arthouses, and few action aficionados could have possibly seen it coming. The French filmmaker was barely known on these ...

Action movies are the bread and butter of the summer ... representation of the trope in 1993’s Last Action Hero. The Female Action Hero is much more rare. Like Eve, she was born out of her ...

Jennifer Lawrence shared her thoughts on the history of female-led action movies in a new interview, but the “Hunger Games” star is getting some flack for not quite getting it right.

A tribute to Ellen Ripley, and her continued inspiration in the realm of female action heroes ... the world of the Alien movies could have turned out vastly different. Without Ellen Ripley ...