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The Carolina Theatre’s annual Dancing With The Carolina Stars fundraiser takes place on May 21! Audience members will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite local stars and even get to mingle with them after the event. We caught up with Jason Peace from Meals on Wheels Durham about bringing equitable access to the […]

The heyday of the gothic horror pictures spanned the 1950s through the 1970s with glorious gothic and giallo takes on classic stories. Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl, highlights the history behind the gothic and giallo genres and the films featured in this year’s RetroGothic Film Series, March 22-28 at the Carolina Theatre.  HOUSE OF […]

Your bestie Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl, gives his top 10 recommendations of overlooked 1980s films to give a try when you are at a loss for what to watch on a night in.  First off, I’m not claiming any of the movies on this list are overlooked classics. A lot, in fact, were […]

Jim Carl, the Carolina Theatre’s Senior Director of Film, shares his favorite trivia about films in the FantasticRealm Film Series series.  COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT Universal Pictures originally planned for Charlton Heston to star in this picture, but he was unavailable due to being contractually obligated to appear in a supporting role in “Beneath the […]

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 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 […]

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 […]