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41. Film Feature

    Counter-Strike

    Steel yourself for 2008 with a look back at the year's best scripts

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: January 3, 2008

    The year: 2505. Your viewing choices tonight: an oldie but a goodie — a picture called Ass, a feature-length screensaver of butt cheeks punctuated by the occasional fart...

42. Film Feature

    Revenge of the Nerds

    Judd Apatow enjoyed a pretty good year

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Absolutely, unequivocally, this has been The Year of the Apatow: Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office alone); the super-okay Superbad, which...

43. Film Feature

    Doc Block

    Nonfiction continues its ascent on screen

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 3, 2008

    An acquaintance who fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq says he has no use for documentaries about George Bush's bungling of the War on Terror. He has not and will not see a...

44. Film Feature

    Support Group

    The year's best characters

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Some years it can be hard to come up with enough stellar lead performances to make an awards minyan. But every year is a good year for supporting roles, and not just because...

45. Film Feature

    Bad Blood

    Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007

    By Luke Y. Thompson

    Published: January 3, 2008

    It was only a couple of years ago that the horror genre seemed newly resurgent, like an undead killer digging himself out of the grave. "Fresh-faced" directors like Eli Roth,...

46. Film Feature

    The Way He Lives Now

    As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies' most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

    By Judith Lewis

    Published: January 3, 2008

    "You don't meet the book when you meet the writer," the novelist William Gibson has said. "You meet the place where it lives." A relatively uncontroversial remark about the...

47. Stage

    Flat(ware) Season

    Here's hoping for more than flying forks in 2008

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Early in the year, I wrote that I wondered whether I'd see a scene all season that was as astonishing to me as the one I saw in Space 55 Theater Ensemble's Book of Liz, where...

48. Theater Scene

    Reviews and Previews of What's Running Now

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Pajama Game: Word from Tucson, where Arizona Theatre Company debuted this recently revived Broadway favorite last month, is that the company has come up with another winner....

49. Game On

    Keep Dreaming

    NiGHTS' second coming feels more like a first draft

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: January 3, 2008

    The inevitable challenge faced by Wii developers is this: Can you create a game so spectacularly awesome as to prompt a gamer to even consider ejecting Super Mario Galaxy from...

50. DVDish

    Black Russian

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Eastern Promises (Universal) David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen are becoming a Bizarro World Hitchcock/Cary Grant combo, and the world is a better (and bloodier) place for...

51. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Billy Jack (Image) The Heartbreak Kid (Universal) Indie Sex: A Revealing Look at Sex in Cinema (IFC) Jimmy and Judy (Anchor Bay) Living & Dying (HBO) Resident Evil:...