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  A Breakdown of the New Aladdin Film vs. the Original and Yup, There’s a Musical Too

  Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  You get three wishes. And if your three wishes are all to watch Aladdin, you’re in luck. If you live in Dallas, there are three ways to do so right now. Obviously, there’s the original 1992 Disney film in all its animated glory, with a genie brought to life by...

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  Two Wildly Different Films Made in Dallas Get Center Stage at the Oak Cliff Film Festival

  Friday, June 7, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Film events like the Oak Cliff Film Festival aim for diversity and variety in their movie offerings, in order to offer the dream afternoon for the raging cinephile. "We're looking for stuff that's a little off the beaten path," says Barak Epstein, the co-owner of Aviation Cinemas, which runs the...

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  Oak Cliff Film Festival’s Menu Includes Movies By Danny Boyle, and Starring Jeff Goldblum and Awkwafina

  Monday, May 13, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  The reason you go to film festivals like the Oak Cliff Film Festival is because you want to see films. Unlike other fan gatherings, you're not there to wait in ungodly lines for an awkward handshake with a celebrity, blow a week's pay on an overpriced collectible or work your...

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  This World Won’t Break’s Hard-Luck Story Thrives on the Goodwill of Dallas

  Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  This past Saturday, This World Won’t Break had its world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival. The film, directed by Josh David Jordan, is a modern-day musical that tells the story of Wes Milligan (Greg Schroeder), a Texas troubadour who fails to find success as a musician. One day,...

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  Welcome to Marwen Crashes Into the Limits of Hollywood’s Imagination

  Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 3:56 p.m.

  At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination

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  Vice Can’t Make Sense of Dick Cheney, but It Can Give You a Headache

  Monday, December 24, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either