Pam Grier is the defining actor of Blaxploitation, drawing endless power from a deeply complex genre and changing action forever.

Deleted scenes have always ... Cameron ramps up the fighting and the effects, making it a thrilling second installment that turns Ellen Ripley into one of the greatest female action heroes of ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Salamishah Tillet explores what happens when Hollywood heroines subvert societal expectations of gender ...

It's hard to describe the amazing caliber of the greatest action movies on display during the 1990s for those who weren't ...

This is the film that not only set the bar for World War II movies, it set everything else for them, too. The opening scene so accurately represented the fighting on D-Day that actual WWII ...

Women are rarely the focus of Western movies and television series. Most Western movies—rich with outlaws, bloodshed, and gunfighters—often revolve around men, leaving the female experience ...

There’s arguably no bigger badass female assassin ... with fabulous fight scenes, heroic moments, and humor, too, Die Hard is considered to be one of the greatest action movies of all time.

He sets his story in 1940 London, where Lady Molly, the first female detective ... ride and a fight on a stairway that seems to take off. Under Rothstein’s direction, scenes weave smoothly ...

After the previous three Star Trek series put William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, and Avery Brooks in the leading roles, Voyager featured a female captain ... the Marquis to fight for their ...

The two meet while on their own undercover missions and wind up falling ... Samuel (Harris Dickinson). Rarely do sexy movie scenes become a part of the cultural zeitgeist, but Titanic did just ...

The top movie across all territories was the Spanish ... and its authors and readers both skew heavily female. Those are genres and audiences that have been traditionally dismissed by critics ...