This Friday-Sunday (November 8th-10th, 2019), at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, presented in conjunction with the NC Comicon, it’s the ComiQuest Film Festival!

Movies to be shown include:

Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira (1988; in Japanese w/ English subtitles)

Desmond Davis’ Clash of the Titans (1981)

Alex Proyas’ The Crow (1994)

Ishirô Honda’s Destroy All Monsters (1968; in Japanese w/ English subtitles)

Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.’s The Last Unicorn (1982)

Joss Whedon’s Serenity (2005)

Michael Pressman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Tickets are $5!

Plus a Friday night showing of Joe Johnston’s The Rocketeer (1991) & Steven Lisberger’s TRON (1982)!

This Friday (November 8th) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a ComiQuest double feature:

Joe Johnston’s The Rocketeer (1991)

Steven Lisberger’s TRON (1982)

$9.50 to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

ComiQuest takes place November 9-11, 2018

The Carolina Theatre and NC Comicon present ComiQuest, an annual film festival celebrating the best cinema pop-culture has to offer.

Individual tickets are $9.50.  These are not included in the Retro Season Pass.

The films:

Joe Dante’s Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Kevin Smith’s Mallrats (1995)

Barry Sonnefeld’s Men in Black (1997)

Kimio Yabuki & Bernard Deyriès’ Rainbow Brite & the Star Stealer (1985)

M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable (2000)

Ron Howard’s (and George Lucas’s) Willow (1988)

Robert Greenwald’s Xanadu (1980)

Retro Film Series & NC Comicon Present: ComiQuest Film Series (Nov 9th-11th) George Lucas’ WILLOW 30th Anniversary (PG, 126 min, 1988) In conjunction with Lucasfilm, Retro Film Series and Ultimate Comics present this ultra-rare 30th Anniversary presentation of the beloved fantasy which journeys to the far corners of your imagination.  From legendary filmmakers George Lucas and Ron Howard comes a timeless fantasy tale in which heroes comes in all sizes... and adventure is the greatest magic of all.  When young Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) finds an abandoned baby girl, he learns she is destined to end the reign of the wicked Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh).  In order to protect the child, Willow must team up with a rogue swordsman (Val Kilmer) and overcome the forces of darkness in the ultimate battle of good versus evil! Tickets on sale in October.

This weekend (Friday Nov 10th-Sunday Nov 12th) is the NC-Durham Comicon, which also mean the Carolina Theatre of Durham is holding their ComiQuest film festival! 

Films to be shown include

Chris Columbus’ Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Leslie H. Martinson’s Batman: The Movie (1966)

Stephen Norrington’s Blade (1998)

Arna Selznick’s The Care Bears Movie (1985)

George A. Romero’s Creepshow (1982)

Ishirō Honda’s King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

Nick Castle’s The Last Starfighter (1984)

James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984)

ComiQuest takes place November 11-13, 2016

The Carolina Theatre and NC Comicon present ComiQuest, an annual film festival celebrating the best cinema pop-culture has to offer.  This year, the creators of DC's YOUNG ANIMAL line of comic books have hand-picked an array of modern classics and old favorites for ComiQuest, selecting titles that have inspired their work on the books Doom Patrol, Mother Panic, Shade the Changing Girl, and Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye.  Like YOUNG ANIMAL, each film challenges the norm, pushing the boundaries of style, craft, and genre-making ComiQuest the Film Festival for Dangerous Humans.

Films to be shown include

1984′s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

2011′s The Adventures of Tintin

1976′s At the Earth’s Core

1986′s Big Trouble in Little China

1971′s A Clockwork Orange

2004′s Mean Girls

2015′s NC Comicon: The Movie

1974′s Phantom of the Paradise

1987′s They Live

Click link for schedule.

(”change their life” = “allow them to realize they like girls”?)

And shortly before it started, a man stood up -- one of the volunteers for the NC Comicon, it tuns out -- and asked who here had never seen Heavy Metal.  About a third of the audience (of about 40-50) raised their hands.  Of the ones raising their hands, most seemed to be women in their late teens or 20s.

During the movie, I did notice a lot of laughs from the audience, mostly during the scenes of gratuitous nudity and sex.  So, for about a third of the film.