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41. Film

    Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you in Funny Games

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: March 12, 2008

    For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of sitting through any movie that...

42. Film

    After the unspeakable Grinch, Horton is a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation

    By Ed Gonzalez

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Was Dr. Seuss, né Theodor Seuss Geisel, oblivious to his own genius? The allegory of his charming Horton Hears a Who! remains fluid today, and like its crafty rhymes, it...

43. Stage

    The Comedy of Errors is so funny you'll have to pee

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Speaking of comedy of errors, what do you do when it's opening night and there's a flood in the theater? Wait, don't answer — it gets worse. Fortunately, about twenty...

44. Stage

    Assassins fires a seldom-seen blast from the Sondheim canon

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: March 12, 2008

    The floor design is a large, circular firing-range target. From time to time as the misbegotten gunmen (and women) in the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical revue Assassins...

45. Stage

    Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

    By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Assassins Reviewed in this issue. Bye Bye Birdie If anything, this 1960 musical spoof inspired by Elvis Presley's entry into the army is growing even more charming as the...

46. Game On

    Patapon marches to the same damned drummer, over and over again

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: March 12, 2008

    You'll know in the first few minutes exactly what Patapon has going for it. There's the goofy premise, which casts you as the tribal god Patapon, lord of a band of creatures...

47. DVDish

    Three the Hard Way

    No Country released on DVD

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: March 12, 2008

    No Country for Old Men (Paramount) "A horror comedy chase" is how a grinning Tommy Lee Jones describes No Country for Old Men in the making-of — meanwhile, his fellow...

48. What Else Is New?

    Riverfront Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: March 12, 2008

    . . . And Justice for All: Special Edition (Sony) Appleseed Ex Machina (Warner Bros.) August Rush (Warner Bros.) Bee Movie (DreamWorks) Black Widow (Fox) Dan in Real Life...