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What: “Pain & Gain”

Given the prevalence of smartphones, tablets and those screens in the back of every other minivan, watching a movie in your car isn’t the novelty it once was.

When it comes to the Vegas Indie Film Fest! less is most definitely more.

Movie fans slipped into “Oblivion” as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller led Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

A typical movie theater sound system operates at around 4,000 watts. For four days this week, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace trembled under the power of a spleen-shimmying 495,000 watts.