Being a tomboy means embracing an empowered and confident girlhood. But it doesn’t mean you can’t also be all things sassy and girly. Several of Hollywood’s cutest current stars cop to embracing a tomboy lifestyle as girls. Just who are the happening hotties who went from kicking the soccer ball to kicking up their heels? Snakkle investigates.

July 18 is the 27th anniversary of Aliens, and it has aged well. Mark Blankenship, editor of TheCriticalCondition.com, tells Snakkle that this sequel is right up there with The Godfather II. Jason Zinoman, author of Shock Value, a new book about scary movies, agrees, telling us that James Cameron “took a brilliant horror film [and] transformed it into a brilliant action film.” (He also added an “s” on the end instead of the number 2.) Let’s look at why Aliens still scares us—in a good way.