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Which Female Superhero Should Get a Solo Movie First? Posted: 10 Apr 2014 08:00 PM PDT With everyone talking about a Black Widow solo movie post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Fox is getting the ball rolling on the idea of a Mystique solo movie a month ahead of its release of X-Men: Days of Future Past. It makes sense, as the studio was once planning to do a number of solo mutant movies, including a feature focused on Emma Frost. But after the first X-Men Origins movie with Wolverine was poorly received it turned X-Men Origins: Magneto into X-Men: First Class.  But everyone loves Jennifer Lawrence, whether she's doing Oscar-caliber work or competing in the Hunger Games or covered in blue body paint, so it makes sense that she'd be in demand to make the first go at a good solo female superhero movie -- or, in her case, supervillain movie... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Last Sci-fi Blog: Why 'Contact' Is the Best Science Fiction Movie No One Talks About Posted: 10 Apr 2014 07:00 PM PDT Is Contact the best science fiction film that no one talks about? I had never seen Robert Zemeckis' 1997 film about mankind's first contact with extraterrestrial life, but after listening to Movies.com editor Peter Hall call it one of his favorite films of all time, I decided to rectify that. What I found was one of the most thoughtful and entertaining sci-fi movies ever made, a film that deserves to be in the same conversation as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey. And then Peter and I sat down to talk about why a movie this good has been so overlooked.   Jacob: Let's talk about Contact. The funny thing about this... I remember seeing the trailer when I was younger, but otherwise I knew nothing about Contact going in. I didn't... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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