woman crush wednesday

Damsels: Erika Eleniak – Under Siege

  Erika Eleniak and I spent a lot of time together when I was young. Not physically but I saw her “performance” in Chasers about 600 times and she played the ultimate damsel in distress in...

Bad Girls: Lucy Liu – Payback

With a whole slew of TV shows like L.A. Law, Hercules, ER, and Nash Bridges to her credit, it’s a surprise that Lucy Liu was ever able to make it out of TV show background Asian...

Tough Chicks: Gina Carano – Haywire

Gina Carano wasn’t introduced to the world of action cinema, she crashed the party! Her role in Haywire, opposite some of the heaviest of hitters in Hollywood (Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio...

Tough Chicks: Uma Thurman – Kill Bill

When Quentin Tarantino released Volume 1 of his epic revenge filled martial arts flick Kill Bill in 2003, he set loose a woman so hell-bent on vengeance, so utterly unstoppable in her rage, and so unbelievably...

Bad Girls: Adrianne Palicki – John Wick

Navigating the criminal underworld can’t be an easy task and it must be especially difficult for a woman but if there is one person who has pulled off the near-impossible it is the beautifully deadly Ms....

Tough Chicks: Asami – Gun Woman

When the character of Mayumi (aka Gun Woman) shows up on screen for the first time she is shivering and sweating, a mess of a woman in need of her drug of choice. Mayumi was a...

Tough Chicks: Milla Jovovich – The Fifth Element

Today we celebrate the birthday of visionary director Luc Besson. Besson brought us Bulletproof Action favorites Leon: The Professional, Lucy, and The Fifth Element. It is with that third film that we travel to for our...

Tough Chicks: Bianca Bradey – Wyrmwood

You never know where you’ll be when the zombie apocalypse strikes but you damn well better be ready to kill some people if you want to survive. Brooke was chillin’ in a shed with a couple...