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Oak Cliff Film Festival Announces Full Line-up

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The first Oak Cliff Film Festival, which runs June 14-17, will feature an odd mix of new indies and cult classics including "The Ghastly Love of Johnny X," a musical about aliens, and an outdoor screening of Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" at the Dallas Zoo which bookend the schedule. "Johnny ... Read more

'House' officially retires from TV medicine Monday

Dr. House

(Adam Taylor/FOX)

Gregory House, the sage diagnostician with the sour disposition, is leaving the TV airwaves after eight remarkable seasons. In his honor, we pay tribute to some other TV doctors of note. Read more

New on DVD: 'Red Tails'

Red Tails

Lucasfilm Ltd.

DVD Red Tails: Despite stunning aerial scenes and good intentions, the George Lucas-produced Red Tails is grounded by clumsy dialogue, a meandering plot and the occasional jarring anachronism. It's an "... Read more

Movie review: 'Battleship' sinks

BATTLESHIP

Universal Studios

There will be bigger movies this summer, and better ones and worse ones. Read more

'What to Expect' picks its battles nicely

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Lionsgate via MCT

What To Expect When You're Expecting is a Valentine's Day take on impending parenthood. Assorted couples cope with pregnancies, planned and unplanned, adoption and the epic change that is coming to their lives. Read more

Movie review: 'Crooked Arrows'

CROOKED ARROWS

Peck Entertainment/Kent Eanes

PG-13 (suggestive language, brief partial nudity); 104 min. Read more

'Mansome' has issues, not all of them involving male beauty

MANSOME

Paladin

PG-13 (strong language, crude material); 84 min. Read more

'Elles' is more than a bit of a tease

ELLES

Kino Lorber

NC-17 (adult content, nudity, explicit sexuality, strong language); 98 min. Read more

UNT's big sitcom on campus

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DFW.com/Max Faulkner

DENTON -- Comedy, as Steve Martin once said, is not pretty, and the world of situation comedies can be pretty ugly. For every Modern Family, New Girl or Big Bang Theory that connects, there are scores of Read more

Movie review: 'The Dictator'

THE DICTATOR

Paramount Pictures/Melinda Sue Gordon

A year after the killing of Osama bin Laden and the toppling of Hosni Mubarak, as protests against oppressive regimes in Iran and Syria continue to rage, the time would seem ripe for a no-holds-barred satire about the lingering conflicts in the Middle East, a movie that attacks both the despots w... Read more

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