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The legendary Robin Hood and his merry men weren't quite enough to take down Marvel's Iron Man 2 at the box office this weekend. We review both of those movies, with a second week spent looking at the comic book sequel.

It's Labor Day weekend and our end of summer wrap up. Join us as we talk about our favorite movies of the summer of '09, the movies that disappointed us most, and what we're looking forward to most between now and the end of the year.

With movies under his belt like Manhunter, Heat, Collateral, and Miami Vice, it almost seems natural for Michael Mann to make a ‘30s era gangster movie. It allows the writer/director to work with subject material he’s previously shown interest in (the world of crime) in a format he’s shown comfort with (a stylized version of reality).

The Terminator franchise has always been about a pending war between humans and machines. The machines try to stop the war by sending soldiers into the past to eliminate key figures before they can interfere with the war. The humans try to stop the war by gleaning information from the future and stopping events before they can occur.