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IRON MAN 2
 The first IRON MAN movie was a planet-crusher. IRON MAN 2, well, maybe it could crush a small moon or something. It's still a full-fledged, fun-filled ferrous romp, but, like all superhero sequels, suffers from cramming us with characters and classic storylines in its desperate need to impress. My hole feels stretched. Not in that good way either.
IRON MAN 2 opens in exhilaration: over AC/DC's Shoot To Thrill, Iron Man jets through night skies over city lights, camera/we on his steel shoulders, feeling the weight of the armor, the gut-thumping power of the afterburners in his boots, inhaling the burning breeze as he plummets like a missile into a packed amphitheater, landing onstage in a pose that can only be described as THOOM! You don't applaud an entrance like that. You throw panties.
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GET HIM TO THE GREEK
 Release: Jun 10 - Review: 6 Jul 10 
Going Greek: it only hurts if you're sober.
Drugs, bitches, rock stars, alcohol poisoning - geez! GET HIM TO THE GREEK is like one of my regular Tuesdays.
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IRON MAN 2
Release: May 10 - Review: 23 Jun 10
Jumping The Stark.
...like all superhero sequels, suffers from cramming us with characters and classic storylines in its desperate need to impress. My hole feels stretched. Not in that good way either.
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THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Release: May 10 - Review: 24 Jun 10
Blair and Bubba: A Love Story.
A touching bromance between two heads of state.
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ANCIENT ALIENS
 Release: Apr 10 - Review: 22 May 10 
Proving you don't have to be abducted to be anal probed.
...the latest deformed baby spawned from the boomers who broke their brains on Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? book series, speculating on alien visitors to Earth bequeathing ancient peoples with advanced technology.
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RIVERWORLD 2010
 Release: Apr 10 - Review: 2 May 10
Cry me a river...
...a two-part television movie "based on the Riverworld novels," resembling Farmer's story in the sense that a dog turd resembles a sausage.
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YOU DON'T KNOW JACK
 Release: Apr 10 - Review: 28 Jun 10
Terminator Salvation.
Idiot Sarah Palin might be inclined to call him a "Death Panel." Doctor Jack Kevorkian. If you know the name, you know the game: euthanasia...
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THE BOOK OF ELI
Release: Jan 10 - Review: 9 Feb 10
When Gunslingers Get Religion.
In a surprising display of controlled storytelling by Gary Whitta, THE BOOK OF ELI is about religion - but it ain't religious.
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UP IN THE AIR
Release: Dec 09 - Review: 15 Apr 10 
Loner Class.
... it's a movie about romance, but it's not a Romantic Movie; it takes us on a bucking and diving flight across the landscape of human emotions and leaves us... up in the air.
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AVATAR
 Release: Dec 09 - Review: 1 Jan 10 
Electra Glide in Jungle Cat Blue.
Frank Zappa once said, "Writing about music is like tap dancing about architecture." And there's no way to describe James Cameron's AVATAR without a lot of tap dancing.
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COLD SOULS
Release: Nov 09 - Review: 26 Mar 10
Hauntingly hilarious.
A darker journey than ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND and a blacker comedy than BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, COLD SOULS is a disturbing, unique gem of a movie.
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