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When Sascha Baron Cohen attended the 2012 Oscars as his character, General Aladeen, and dumped “Kim Jong Il’s ashes” on Ryan Seacrest, I predicted the worst for the film The Dictator. Cohen is known for his offensive, intrusive humor. Considering he’s done two films and a television show successfully with that humor, I figured we’ve seen it before and The Dictator will be no different.

I was pleasantly surprised then when I attended a screening of the film last night. The film of course had moments of childish bathroom humor, offensive jokes and overall silliness, but within a scripted, traditional narrative format, it left the overall theme and message of the film much more enjoyable and bearable to watch.

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Have you been wishing that someone made a sci-fi movie about Nazi’s living on the dark side of the moon who launch an attack on Earth, while a president that looks suspiciously like Sarah Palin welcomes the chance for war in order to secure her reelection?  Well, your prayers have been answered.  That movie is Iron Sky and it just premiered its new trailer at the Berlin International Film Festival.  The film opens in Finland on April 4th, followed by Germany on April 5th.  Not lucky enough to live in either location?  Then head over to the film’s website where you can sign up to demand the film in your city.  Check out the full synopsis and trailer below.

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Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno follow-up, The Dictator.  Inspired by the best selling novel Zabibah and The King that was supposedly written by former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein, the film is the hilarious tell of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.  The film co-stars Megan Fox, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley and Jason Mantzoukas and is set to hit theaters May 11th, 2012.

Did Tom Cruise make the wrong career choice?  Should he have curtailed his movie star status to become a rock god?  Now we may have the answer as the trailer for Rock of Ages has hit.  In the film, based on the hit Broadway musical, Tom Cruise plays rock star “Stacee Jaxx” where we will get to see his singing as well as acting chops.  The film is set in 1987 on the Sunset Strip, where a small town girl meets a big city rocker and in LA’s most famous rock club, they fall in love to the greatest songs of the 80s.  An arena-rock love story told through the mind-blowing, face-melting hits of Def Leppard, Joan Jett, Journey, Foreigner, …

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return as our favorite alien chasers in Men In Black III hitting theaters May 25th, 2012.  This time around, Will Smith’s “Agent J” must travel back in time to team up with a young “Agent K”, played by Josh Brolin, to save Tommy Lee Jones’ “Agent K” from an untimely demise while saving the world in the process.  The film also stars Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Nicole Scherzinger, Alice Eve, Bill Hader and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Screen Gems has released a new trailer for the new comedy Think Like A Man.  Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book, Think Like a Man follows four interconnected and diverse men whose love lives are shaken up after the ladies they are pursuing buy Harvey’s book and start taking his advice to heart.  When the band of brothers realize they have been betrayed by one of their own, they conspire using the book’s insider information to turn the tables and teach the women a lesson of their own.  Think Like A Man opens March 9th, 2012.

Lionsgate has released the new trailer for What To Expect When You’re Expecting inspired by the perennial New York Times bestseller of the same name.  The film is a star-studded ensemble comedy about five couples whose intertwined lives are turned upside down by the challenges of impending parenthood.

Over the moon about starting a family, TV fitness guru Jules and dance show star Evan find that their high-octane celebrity lives don’t stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice when pregnancy hormones ravage her body; while Wendy’s husband, Gary, struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad, who’s expecting twins with his much younger trophy …

Jason Segal reteams with his Forgetting Sarah Marshall director for the hilarious new comedy The Five-Year Engagement.  Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow and Rodney Rothman looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.  The film is set to hit theaters on April 27th, 2012.

Universal Pictures has released a second full length trailer for their upcoming animated feature Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax hitting theaters March 2nd, 2012.  Based on Dr. Seuss’ classic tale about a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a boy as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Danny DeVito will lend his vocal talents to the iconic title character of the Lorax, while Ed Helms will voice the enigmatic Once-ler. Also bringing their talents to …

Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first trailer for the sequel to 2008′s Journey to the Center of the Earth.  In Journey 2: The Mysterious Island young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist-a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret.  The film is set to hit theaters February 10th, 2012.