YouTube, MySpace and their cousins have made it all the easier for action heroine fans to get their entertainment fix. Each month, we pick one clip to feature: this is the archives of the previous nominees.

June 2008

On the importance of keeping your elbow straight when firing a gun...

May 2008

Readers will know how Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS is one of our guiltiest pleasures - and so, Werewolf Women Of The S.S. was about our favorite part of Grindhouse. While we wait for that to get made, Wild Eye Releasing didn't, and have brought us Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69, which had it's world premiere on May 24th in New York. Here's the trailer. At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious [c'mon - look at the lobby card...], it's Not Safe For Work. And we wouldn't have it any other way!

March 2008

Manami Toyota is perhaps the best women wrestler of all time. The video below will give some a small insight into why, though you really need to see some of her fights in full to appreciate her ferocious athleticism. [YouTube is your friend: check out the September 1995 bout between her and Akira Hokuto - who's almost her equal]

February 2008

Fans of the Resident Evil games may be less than enamored of their tranlation to the big-screen, but the series has been one of the most popular girls-with-guns franchises of the past decade. It has spawned two sequels, which is a damn sight more than most video-game films [or, indeed, action heroines] managed. Been a while since I watched the original, but if you have, you'll likely get a kick out of this month's Youtube offering, which condenses the entire movie into less than three minutes.

January 2008

This is the trailer for Chocolate, from Prachya Pinkaew, director of Ong-bak and The Protector, which made a super-star of Tony Jaa. It's about an autistic girl who picks up martial-arts skills from TV and their next-door neighbours, a muay thai academy. She uses those skills to collect debts on behalf of her ill mother, which incurs the wrath of both local and Japanese gangs. As with Pinkaew's earlier films, there is no wire-work or CGI - it's all raw, athletic ability, and based on this trailer alone (or even the painful out-takes), it could be the best action heroine film of 2008. The Thai release is February 8.

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