The year that, as of the time of writing, has nearly concluded, or has progressed far enough that crowning the best action ...

'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 ...

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 ...

Action movies are the heartbeat of cinema. The best ones deliver a very specific kind of joy, an almost delirious pleasure. They move with rhythm, escalate with intelligence, and burn themselves into ...

Action movies test their protagonists both physically and mentally, and there are just as many great action movies with female leads as there are with male leads. One of the long-standing perceptions ...