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 ...

This month’s picks include female assassins, a quirky French thief and crooked cops. By Robert Daniels Rent or buy on most major platforms. The jaded assassin Dominique (Oksana Orlan) is interrupted ...

Evie Frye of Assassin's Creed Syndicate is one of the franchise's best female assassins. Bayek from Assassin's Creed Origins has a tragic past and lays the foundation for future games. Shay Cormac ...

What will Netflix's Assassin's Creed live-action series be about? The Assassin's Creed games feature multiple stories, each set in a different time period, but they all follow members of the Order of ...

LAS VEGAS – Ana de Armas sobbed the first time she set a guy on fire. Her assassin character in the “John Wick” franchise spinoff “Ballerina” (in theaters June 6) uses all manner of weaponry when ...

An underrated gem of an action flick is turning heads among Netflix subscribers, with some branding it a 'female John Wick'.

Nathan is a lifelong gamer, harkening back to a misspent youth blasting Kirby Superstar and Super Mario All-Stars on his bedroom floor. Some of us are that old. This began a long-term love affair with ...

Back in 1990, Luc Besson's fourth feature film, La Femme Nikita, hit U.S. arthouses, and few action aficionados could have ...

Actress Charlize Theron criticized the film industry for being reluctant to support female-led action films, in a new interview with The New York Times. Theron and fellow actress Uma Thurman spoke to ...

It’s been nearly five years in the making, but the live-action Assassin’s Creed series at Netflix is finally greenlit with Roberto Patino (Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, The ...