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BALLS OF FURY

"Reno 911's" Robert Ben Garant (who also directs) and Thomas Lennon (who co-stars) script this goofy martial-arts spoof about a pingpong player (Broadway's Dan Fogler), who goes from failed Olympian to Reno casino entertainer -- until he gets a shot at redemption as a secret agent. Christopher Walken (as evil mastermind Feng) and James Hong (as blind pingpong master Wong) co-star. At multiple locations. (90 minutes) PG-13; crude and sex-related humor, profanity.

HALLOWEEN

The title holiday may be two months away, but musician-turned-director Rob Zombie gets into the spirit early, reincarnating John Carpenter's 1978 shocker about masked psycho Michael Myers ("X-Men's" Tyler Mane). At multiple locations. (110 minutes) R; strong brutal bloody violence and terror, sexual content, graphic nudity, profanity.

LADRON QUE ROBA A LADRON

Two thieves (Fernado Colunga, Miguel Varoni) target an even bigger thief: a TV informercial guru (Saul Lisazo) who's made millions from worthless health products. But the heist can't succeed without some clever day laborers (including Oscar Torres, Ruben Garfias, Gabriel Soto, Ivonne Montero and JoJo Henrickson, who also scripted) who infiltrate the target's impregnable empire -- and steal him blind. In Spanish with English subtitles. At multiple locations. (98 minutes) PG-13; profanity, sexual content.

SELF-MEDICATED

Las Vegas native Monty Lapica writes, directs and stars in this drama -- which premiered at 2005's CineVegas film festival and earned multiple awards on the film festival circuit -- about a troubled Southern Nevada teen whose desperate mother (Diane Venora) tries to cure his drug habit by sending him to a controversial treatment center in Southern Utah. At Green Valley and Village Square. (107 minutes) R; drug use, profanity, sexual material.

VITUS

Switzerland's official foreign-language Oscar entry focuses on a piano and mathematics prodigy (played by Fabrizio Borsani at 6 and Teo Gheorghiu at 12) who struggles to fit in rather than stand out. Bruno Ganz ("Wings of Desire") co-stars as the boy's nonconformist grandfather. In Swiss German with English subtitles. At Village Square. (110 minutes) PG; mild thematic elements, profanity.

-- By CAROL CLING