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In the not too distant future, Kabel Gerard Butler, a death row inmate, has unwittingly become a pop culture hero. Every week, millions worldwide tune in online to watch him and hundreds of other convicts battle in Slayers, an ultra-violent multi-player online game invented by technological genius Ken Castle Michael C. Hall. To the wealthy young gamer who controls his every move, Kable is just a sim simulation character.

Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentines Day, he woke up...and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.

People seem to like geeking out over IStar WarsI, but if theres one thing geeks would rather see than a bunch of fellow nerds going out of their way to see pint-sized Anakin in a pod-race, its Kristen Bell in a gold bikini. Lets face it, thats the real reason people are still interested in IFanboysI after all this time, a movie thats been waiting to be released for longer than I care to remember. The promise of Bells boobies crammed in a hard, metal halter have made the movie a must see for all the nerdsters.

Tom Cruise is back! But did he ever really go away? Hes spent the last few years as more of a tabloid figure than a box office draw, but the magnetism and and intensity that made him a gigantic movie star have never left him. In IValkyrieI he takes a role that could have turned ludicrous-- an American in an eyepatch playing a German hero-- and makes it riveting.

RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Ben X: Drama. Written and directed by Nic Balthazar. With Greg Timmermans, Marijke Pinoy and Laura Verlinden. In Dutch with English subtitles. (Not rated. 93 minutes. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley. For...