Women have been starring in action pictures since the silent era, when names like Pearl White and Helen Gibson promised thrilling adventures with plucky heroines who did their own stunts. Cheng ...

Appearing on the It Happened in Hollywood podcast to retell the making of 1997’s Jackie Brown, screen icon Pam Grier revisited her breakout roles in a series of low-budget action films in the ...

Film icon Pam Grier — whose half-century career spans everything from ’70s classics like Foxy Brown to the Golden Globe-winning Jackie Brown to an appearance alongside David Duchovny in 2023’s Pet ...

"It was a term meant to be negative so that the Black audience wouldn’t support the movies and theaters," Grier said, "and there would be room for mainstream movies to take over that space." “They ...

'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 ...