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Clash of the versus movies by Stuart Heritage
(from Film Blog at guardian.co.uk)

by the time that Dinosaurs v Aliens rolls around, we'll have been hit over the head with such an extraordinary number of similar movies that we won't care whether the dinosaurs or the aliens win. Mark my words, soon we'll all be suffering from versus fatigue.

Already in the pipeline are films such as Strippers v Werewolves, Gladiators v Werewolves, Aliens v Ninjas, Boy Scouts v Zombies, Humans v Zombies, Aliens v Avatars, Cockneys v Zombies and Michael Bay's Zombies v Robots. Add this to the teetering stack of versus movies made by The Asylum (including Alien v Hunter, Mega Shark v Giant Octopus and Mega Shark v Crocosaurus) and you would be forgiven for despairing at the film industry's staggering lack of imagination.

But why do so many of them feature zombies?! Are they the new vampires? Can we expect a Twilight-y human-zombie teen romance soon?

Oprah Winfrey: 10 moments that made her by Tom Geoghegan
(from BBC News Magazine)
Sounds like it's just a list of memorable things from her chat show, but it's actually a more analytical piece than that (through the prism of a top ten list), which makes it interesting.

Vaughn: 'X-Men: First Class influenced by Bond' by Zakia Uddin
(from Digital Spy)

He also teased a follow-up to the movie that could open with the assassination of John F.Kennedy, who has been shot with a "magic bullet controlled by Magneto".

Ooh, good idea!

X-Men: First Class Reviews from
Digital Spy by Ben Rawson-Jones
Empire by Dan Jolin
Total Film by Rosie Fletcher
Consensus so far (based also on other comments I've read scattered about) is that it's excellent, perhaps the best X-Men film yet. Super.