In the action genre, there is no shortage of strong female protagonists on both the big and small screen. From bioengineered badasses to thousand-year-old legends rumored to be true, action heroines ...

There are many adaptations of Jane Austen's books, but certain talented actresses stand out as the best versions of their ...

'70s Week: The '70s saw women kicking ass like never before — two of them cut an especially spectacular trail that bleeds a clear path through the last 50 years of action movies. Women have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979) Ellen Ripley is the best action heroine of all time, without question. Just look at two ...

Men In Black, Speed, and The Mummy are all among the best, most purely fun and entertaining action movies of the 1990s.

Much like earlier decades, the 2000s had plenty of movies and characters that became household names and defined genres. The differentiator for the action genre here, though, came down to certain ...

Everyone likes a good action movie, but everyone loves a great one. The art of the action genre has evolved in the last few decades, as visual effects have shoved human on-set accomplishment to the ...

Cheng Pei-Pei, heroine of King Hu's "Come Drink with Me" and Hong Kong's first real female action star, is another key figure in the evolution of the genre. But the action heroine as we know her today ...