Action movies are the bread and butter of the summer blockbuster. There’s just something about spending a hot summer night in an air-conditioned theater, watching jaw-dropping explosions and epic ...

"Bridesmaids" proved that audiences will flock to a movie about women who are bawdy and hilarious. Here's hoping "Haywire," Steven Soderbergh's Bourne-esque action thriller about a covert operative ...

It’s a shift that’s reshaping a genre long dominated by male icons like Schwarzenegger, Statham and Diesel. Recent releases such as Ballerina (a spin-off from the John Wick franchise), Atomic Blonde, ...

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 ...

A journalist with recent completion of a Master’s degree with merit from Manchester Metropolitan University focussed on gathering and reporting stories with technical flair and engaging delivery.

You trained for five months for the first film. Did you have to train as much for the second? Do you maintain your fitness for that long? [Laughs]. When it was greenlit, I had met my man and we were ...

The action movie genre is sometimes thought of as a boy's club, but the beefy, masculine Schwarzeneggers of the world aren't the only butt-kickers in cinema—some of the greatest action heroes are ...

The most obvious member of an all-female Avengers team would be Carol Danvers’ Captain Marvel. Brie Larson debuted this supremely-powerful hero in 2019’s self-titled movie, and was the first female ...

It’s been nearly half a century since Sigourney Weaver first stormed onto screens in Alien and showed the world what a female action hero could look like, and she certainly didn’t let criticism about ...

Arguably one of the most popular Shonen anime series of the last decade, My Hero Academia is full of powerful heroes and villains. The story follows Deku as the teenage male protagonist, but his story ...