This past week, Deadline reported that Warner Bros. may be taking on Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series as a new franchise. I almost lost my mind with happiness. More than anything else besides Star Wars, the Pern series has shaped who I am and what I chose to do for a living. When Anne McCaffrey passed away a few years back, I...
Category - MOVIES
Hi everyone! Jenna Busch here. I’m going to be doing some more stories for the Legion and today I wanted to talk about some new female fronted movies coming our way. I cannot begin to tell you how happy it makes me to write this article! Over the past few days, we’ve gotten some seriously good news about a female fronted Spider-Man...
“Ohana” means “family.”, “Family” means “no one gets left behind….or forgotten” We’ve been covering a lot of grown, strong confident women on our profiles lately but how about we switch it up and talk about girls in Sci-Fi. One of the ones that springs to mind is Lilo from...
“For my family!“ This week, we’re featuring Pacific Rim’s Mako Mori, the Mecha heroine of Guillermo Del Toro’s film whose sequel was recently announced to be rushed into production as the big Monster craze FINALLY hits its stride. The sequel is set to follow Mako, played by Rinko Kikuchi, and her teammate Raleigh...
“‘Fear’ is a four-letter word, ladies! You wanna go pee pee in your big-boy slacks, keep it to yourself!” This is how we meet Sgt. Calhoun, the leader of the cybug-killing squadron of Hero’s Duty, the fictional first person shooter game in Disney’s arcade fantasy, Wreck-It Ralph. During a time when actual video...
“God damn it, that’s not all! Because if one of those things gets down here then that will be all! Then all this… this bullshit that you think is so important? You can just kiss all that goodbye!” These are the words of a person who has faced terrifying danger. This is someone who has witnessed unimaginable horrors, made...
“In really bad times, the hungriest would gather… vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.” In the dystopian world of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games the society of Panem is broken into 12...