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For movies opening May 26, 2006

BIG BUDGET FILMS

      X-Men: The Last Stand (PG-13 for action violence) Final installment of the trilogy features the comic book super-heroes divided over whether to take the cure which will transform them from mutants into normal human beings or to retain their special powers and remain ostracized by society. Standoff leads to a showdown of epic proportions.

      Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Halle Berry (Storm), Anna Paquin (Rogue), James Marsden (Cyclops), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Famke Janssen (Phoenix), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus), Aaron Stanford (Pyro) and Patrick Stewart (Dr. Charles Xavier) all reprise their roles.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS

      An Inconvenient Truth (Unrated) Inventor of the Internet, former V.P. and gypped presidential candidate Al Gore reinvents himself as a environment-friendly tree-hugger in this prophetic documentary warning about the dire consequences of unchecked global warming.

      Cavite (Unrated) Political potboiler about a Filipino-American (Ian Gamazon) who returns to the Phillipines for his father’s funeral only to learn that his mother and sister have been kidnapped by Muslim extremists who threaten to kill them unless he participates in a terrorist attack. (In Filipino, Tagalog and English with subtitles)

      La Moustache (Unrated) Emmanuel Carrere’s adaptation of his own novel about a man (Vincent Lindon) who shaves off his mustache for a new look only to have his wife (Emmanuelle Devos) and friends insist he never had one in the first place in the first of several such incidents which has him questioning his sanity.

(In French, English and Cantonese)

      Shem (Unrated) Coming-of-age flick about a blasé British boy (Ash Newman) who finally finds some meaning in life when he takes his holocaust survivor grandmother’s (Hadassah Hungar Diamant) advice and abandon’s London to look for the grave of his great-grandfather’s who disappeared somewhere in Europe during World War II.

      Stagedoor (Unrated) Acting, singing and dance dominate this documentary about the daily routines of five aspiring Broadway hopefuls spending the summer at the Stagedoor Manor camp for teens located in the Catskills.

      What Is a Man without a Mustache? (Unrated) Slavic romantic comedy, set in post-ethnic cleansing Croatia, revolves around the unlikely love affair between a young widow (Zrinka Cvitesic) and a Catholic priest (Leon Lucev) who has to choose between his vow of celibacy and following his heart. (In Serbo-Croation with subtitles)