Insight Film Studios: "Battle In Seattle"...

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Thanks to our friends at MovieSet, we are giving away Ben X movie tickets for a special screening April 16 @ Vancouver's Fifth Avenue Cinemas PLUS copies of the video game Archlord featured in the film!!!

Ben X is a 2007 Belgian film about an autistic boy (Greg Timmermans) who retreats into the fantasy world of the video game Archlord to escape bullying.

The film won three awards at the 31st Montreal World Film Festival: the Grand Prix des Amériques, the Prix du Public for the most popular film and the Ecumenical Jury Prize for its exploration of ethical and social values.

The movie was also Belgian entry for the Academy Awards 2007 in the category Best Foreign Language Film.

"...Ben (Greg Timmermans) is different. He never speaks, except to his mother and to his little brother. He gets high grades, but is viewed as “Frankenstein” and “the Martian” by classmates at the high school he attends. Ben’s only solace is the time he spends playing his favourite online computer game Archlord, where he can be the fearless hero slaying enemies left and right. Ben tries hard to train himself for the real world he lives in. The harsh world of a technical school is for him a daily kind of living hell.

Ben X is a powerful figure in the world of ArchLord. He is everything that the teenage Ben is not. As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying grows, Ben devises a plan. Then Scarlite (Laura Verlinden), the girl he has met in his on-line game, appears in the real-world to point the way. That wasn’t part of the plan... Together, they concoct the ultimate end-game...".

Ben X marks Nic Balthazar’s film directorial debut. It is adapted from his 2002 novel "Niets was alles wat hij zei" ("Nothing Was All He Said") and his stage play inspired by actual events.

In the role-playing computer game ArchLord by Codemasters, a number of scenes were shot online with several gamers playing entire scenes with virtual characters on the basis of directives given by Balthazar. These scenes were subsequently integrated with live-action.

To be eligible to win, send your name and phone number to commandentertainment@yahoo.com

"Galactica" Streaming With "Six Of One"...

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Turn On: "PEYOTE TO LSD: A PSYCHEDELIC ODYSSEY"...

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From Amazon jungles to the American Plains, British mental wards, Swiss labs, New York mansions and "Grateful Dead" shows, the history of hallucinogenic drugs is as fantastic as the visions the drugs produce.

Wade Davis, is a modern-day anthropologist, author ("The Serpent and the Rainbow") and protege of one of psychedelia's most intrepid forefathers -- Richard Evans Schultes.

Davis traces Schultes' life's work as one of the greatest botanist-explorers of the 20th century and reveals an illustrated history of the world's most mind-altering plants and substances in: PEYOTE TO LSD: A PSYCHEDELIC ODYSSEY premiering April 19, 2008 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel.

Winner of the 2008 CINE Golden Eagle Award, the documentary follows the career of Schultes, who journeyed into far-flung areas in search of ritualistic healing medicines known to produce powerful visions: Peyote, mushrooms and 'Ayahuasca'.

Davis, a former student of Schultes at Harvard and author of Schultes' biography ("One River"), travels to the exotic locations Schultes once voyaged to, seeking the same experiences.

Grateful Dead and featuring input from experts including Dead co-founder Bob Weir, Dr. Andrew Weil and LSD inventor Dr. Albert Hofmann, the doc reveals how hallucinogens traveled from jungle shamans to the hippie generation.

Questions arise about the attitude toward psychedelics: their great potential benefits versus perceived harmful side effects. Why did ancient cultures consider hallucinogenic plants -- "...a medicine from God..."

PEYOTE TO LSD: A PSYCHEDELIC ODYSSEY is produced and directed by Peter von Puttkamer of Vancouver's Gryphon Productions Inc. along with producer Sheera von Puttkamer and co-producer Wade Davis. Executive Producer for The History Channel is Michael Stiller.

An exhibit of Richard Evans Schultes' photographs will run at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, April 16 - November, 2008.