Wolverine's Comin' to Getcha: This Week's New Movie Releases!

Celebrate, it's Memorial Day weekend! You most likely have plans to float down a river, or swim in a pool, or have your rich friends take you out in their boat, all while getting exceedingly plastered and forgetting about your soul-sucking day job.* Good thing, because film pickin’s today are slim and, well, strangely international. Most of you are probably wildly anticipating the release of X-Men Part Trois - one Austinist editor was so giddy he remarked that he’d been waiting “all [his] life to see this movie.” And while that represents an extreme and slightly disturbing viewpoint, this flick will at least be entertaining enough for a matinee, despite lukewarm reviews. We also feel the need to mention that Al Gore’s odd timely save-the-world vehicle An Inconvenient Truth opened on Wednesday.** What, is he campaigning for president again or something?

X-Men: The Last Stand
We’re not sure how the lovable mutants will fare in their (alleged) final stand against non-mutants, but we know for damn sure that Hugh Jackman will fail in his last stand against our desire to eye-hump him for two glorious hours. Have you SEEN his bod in this movie? LETHAL!

The Beauty Academy of Kabul
Because just a sweep of mascara and a touch of mousse can brighten anyone’s day after the fall of an oppressive regime!

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
From Austin360: “Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China, is home to many rare species, including the Tibetan antelope. In the 1990s local Tibetans formed a volunteer patrol to try to stop the illegal poaching of the endangered antelope, sometimes at the cost of their own lives.”

Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy
Probably worth seeing just for the footage of the rarely-filmed Dalai Lama talkin’ ‘bout peace or some such craziness.

We're gonna go ahead and recommend all of these, because we're just so gosh darn happy it's a three-day weekend. Since you've got some extra time, check out these fine flicks as well: Friends with Money, Inside Man, Kinky Boots, Thank You for Smoking, V for Vendetta

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*However, we do not condone swimming or operating water transportation while drunk, no, no we do not, please don't sue us.

**Hasn't actually opened yet, apparently. One of our readers says it opens in Austin on June 16. If you have any additional info, feel free to post in the comments.