After reviving the website in March 2022, I let a year pass before reviving one of the features of the previous incarnation: Fighting Female February. When I did it back in February 2023, my focus was on Michelle Yeoh, who had just won the Oscar for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (I think she won as the month went by). I missed last year because the Lunar New Year (or Chinese New Year or Tet or whatever you prefer) fell exactly on my birthday. That was auspicious enough to dedicate the month of February 2024 to the Year of the Dragon, reviewing films with “dragon” in the title.
Thankfully, the Lunar New Year fell in January, so the Month of the (White) Snake didn’t clash with Fighting Female February. So, we’re back to this venerable tradition of It’s a Beautiful Film Worth Fighting For.
This year I don’t have a sub-theme. I’ll mainly watch stuff I need to see in order to whittle down the movies in my To-Watch pile—both on disc and my YT “Watch Later” list. I think that is a respectable take. Be prepared for lots of post-2000 films, some of which feature non-fighters and others that star the “next generation” of female fighters after Michelle Yeoh. If I can make a reasonable dent in my To-Watch list (and that goes for all of 2025, as I failed to do so last year), I will be a happy reviewer.
Films Reviewed:
The Princess (2022)
Snow White and the Seven Samurai (2024)
Enemy Shadow (1995)
Martial Angels (2001)
Ultraviolet (2006)
Coweb (2009)
Special Female Force (2016)
The Fatal Raid (2019)
Anna (2019)
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| Fighting Female February 2025 |
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