Tough Chicks

Car Chases, Kurt Russell, and Female Empowerment

Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 collaboration with his good buddy Robert Rodriguez titled Grindhouse, featured two movies that exist within the genre that I spend most of my time in. Rodriguez’s Planet Terror is much closer to a...

Tough Chicks: Lena Headey – 300

If you run a fine-toothed comb through everything that happens in the 2006 film 300 then you’ll most certainly find some things worth griping over. Even Herodotus thought some of those scenes were a little overdone....

Tough Chicks: Yancy Butler – Drop Zone

A few female action stars have successfully pulled off the strong/sexy combo with ease; Sigourney Weaver, Charlize Theron, Linda Hamilton, and one of my absolute favorites, Yancy Butler. Butler may not have had the same type...

Tough Chicks: Gal Gadot – Wonder Woman

With all of the bad reviews coming out of the most recent DC movies, the one character/film to actually get a positive word said about it would have to be Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. The...

Lady WOLVERINES

Back in 1984 the United States was embroiled in a war that was felt the world over. It’s frigid and death dealing hands reached from the shores of San Diego and Charleston, to the far away...

Tough Chicks: Zoe Saldana- Colombiana

She drives rad cars, dresses like she’s in some sort of video game, and kills more fat bad guys than diabetes. Seeing how this movie was originally written as a sequel to Leon: The Professional with...

Tough Chicks: Jennifer Garner – Daredevil

After the recent introduction of Elektra Natchios into the Marvel Cinematic Universe during the second season of Daredevil, I began to think back to our first glimpses of the Greek beauty on the big screen opposite Ben...

Tough Chicks: Scarlett Johansson – Lucy

Luc Besson has been responsible for bringing several deadly women to the big screen; La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, and now possibly the baddest chick of all, Lucy. Scarlett Johansson, fresh off...