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Something about the holiday season seems to stir nostalgia (something we’re very fond of here!), so we thought it would bring cheer to share the Carolina Theatre Best of 2023. We have seen many thrilling shows, heartfelt performances, and touching moments throughout the year, all of which you inspired. The theater lobby is often buzzing […]

Jim Carl, the Carolina Theatre’s Senior Director of Film at the Carolina Theatre reminisces on 25 years of programming our beloved Retro Film Series.    When my editor asked me to write a blog on the rather broad subject of my “25 Years of Retro,” I might have flinched a bit. By nature, I’m not […]

Our Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl gives his take on films which have played at previous editions of SplatterFlix or are scheduled to appear at future ones. Read Jim’s take on this year’s SplatterFilx film in Part I, here. DRESSED TO KILL (1980)  This is the one about a sexually repressed housewife who enters […]

Our Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl gives his take on horror films that have been in the SplatterFlix Film series. Make a horror movie too artsy and it sits there on the screen, a boring Halloween decoration. Let it grow too gory and it becomes a study in clinical pathology. SplatterFlix Film Series was […]

Senior Director of Film at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, Jim Carl gives his take on Japanese horror films. “J-Horror” is a relatively new genre which began at the start of the 2000s. It’s a designation created by mostly American film critics which has slowly crept into the mainstream, like elevated horror and Funko Pops, […]

OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival Coordinator, Chuck Wheeler, explains the importance of celebrations of queer art, such as film festivals like OUTSOUTH, and how they serve as affirmations of queer life.  When I was growing up in a sleepy and very small Southern town in heavily conservative Eastern North Carolina, I knew I was gay from […]

How is THIS rated PG? Depending on your worldview, 1984 is either one of the greatest years in motion picture history or it’s the year when the movies broke America. The one thing we can say with certainty is that it was not a good year to be part of the MPAA. 1984 changed the […]

The Carolina Theatre of Durham’s Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl, gives his take on the Criterion Collection.   Criterion Collection Picks As of this writing, there are 1,193 films in the Criterion Collection. My editor asked me to pick some of my favorites, which is okay when you’ve got lots of time and can […]