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HBO will make over 500 hours of programming available for free including The Wire, The Sopranos, Ballers, Silicon Valley, and more

By CLTure News April 2, 2020 HBO has announced they will make over 500 hours of programming available for free starting on April 3. Following the trend of offering free services and content amid the COVID-19 crisis, HBO will offer nine original series, several documentaries,...
By CLTure April 2, 2020
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You can now binge-watch several episodes of ‘G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero’ and ‘He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’

By CLTure News March 31, 2020 If you are reading this, you’re probably an ‘80s baby or you’ve ran out of shows to watch during this current coronavirus crisis. While there are several streaming services offering free programming and trials, not many can transport you...
By CLTure March 31, 2020
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ODB’s debut album has officially been certified platinum, a new short documentary has been released

By CLTure News March 27, 2020 25 years after the late Wu-Tang member Ol’ Dirty Bastard released his solo debut, Return of the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, the RIAA has officially certified the album platinum. To celebrate the accomplishment, Amazon has released a 17-minute...
By CLTure March 27, 2020
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Classic sports movies you can stream on Netflix right now

By Cameron Lee March 21, 2020 Raging Bull Ranked as the 24th best film of all time according to the American Film Institute, Martin Scorcese’s fourth feature film is based on the memoir of embattled boxer and former middleweight champion, Jake Lamotta. Although the film...
By CLTure March 21, 2020
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The Cine Casual Film Series shines light on award-winning Latin American films

By Matt Cosper March 2, 2020 Charlotte’s cinema scene hit the ground running this year, and one of the more exciting developments is the Cine Casual Film Series, an event series highlighting Latin American films through April. While Charlotte’s population grows ever more diverse, the...
By CLTure March 2, 2020
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‘The Photograph’ challenges audience to look beyond the frame and love completely

By Douglas Davidson February 15, 2020 Writer-director Stella Meghie’s (Everything, Everything) new film, The Photograph, is a romantic drama depicting two love stories (one in the past, one in the present) connected by a picture. That description just scratches the surface of Meghie’s tale which...
By CLTure February 15, 2020
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Wes Anderson releases trailer for ‘The French Dispatch’ due out this summer

By CLTure News February 12, 2020 Wes Anderson’s follow-up to 2018’s Isle of Dogs, is a story about a foreign outpost of an American newspaper; the stories from the paper’s final issue, and the quirky editorial staff. The French Dispatch, co-written by Jason Schwartzman, Roman...
By CLTure February 12, 2020
Film

‘Birds of Prey’ is as eclectic and scatterbrained as its narrator, Harley Quinn

By Zach Goins February 8, 2020 Four years ago, trailers for Suicide Squad promised the world a raunchy, hardcore and eclectic supervillain team-up movie. There was only one problem: the end result was something else entirely. Simply put, it was one of the year’s worst...
By CLTure February 8, 2020
Film

Our favorite music documentaries on Netflix

By Zach Goins February 8, 2020 Listening to music is one thing, but witnessing how it’s made and what goes into the creative process is another– and Netflix gives music lovers plenty of opportunities to go behind the scenes with some of the world’s most...
By CLTure February 8, 2020
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‘Bad Boys for Life’ has all the feels of a ’90s buddy comedy and it might be the best of the trilogy

By Jonathan Shuping January 17, 2020 In the spring of 1995, producing behemoths Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop) tapped a little known music video director named Michael Bay to helm their latest action blockbuster, Bad Boys. It was a haymaker of a...
By CLTure January 17, 2020

Film

By CLTure News April 2, 2020 HBO has announced they will make over 500 hours of programming available for free starting on April 3. Following the trend of offering free services and content amid the COVID-19 crisis, HBO will offer nine original series, several documentaries,...

By CLTure News March 31, 2020 If you are reading this, you’re probably an ‘80s baby or you’ve ran out of shows to watch during this current coronavirus crisis. While there are several streaming services offering free programming and trials, not many can transport you...

By CLTure News March 27, 2020 25 years after the late Wu-Tang member Ol’ Dirty Bastard released his solo debut, Return of the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, the RIAA has officially certified the album platinum. To celebrate the accomplishment, Amazon has released a 17-minute...

By Cameron Lee March 21, 2020 Raging Bull Ranked as the 24th best film of all time according to the American Film Institute, Martin Scorcese’s fourth feature film is based on the memoir of embattled boxer and former middleweight champion, Jake Lamotta. Although the film...

By Matt Cosper March 2, 2020 Charlotte’s cinema scene hit the ground running this year, and one of the more exciting developments is the Cine Casual Film Series, an event series highlighting Latin American films through April. While Charlotte’s population grows ever more diverse, the...

By CLTure News February 12, 2020 Wes Anderson’s follow-up to 2018’s Isle of Dogs, is a story about a foreign outpost of an American newspaper; the stories from the paper’s final issue, and the quirky editorial staff. The French Dispatch, co-written by Jason Schwartzman, Roman...

By Zach Goins February 8, 2020 Four years ago, trailers for Suicide Squad promised the world a raunchy, hardcore and eclectic supervillain team-up movie. There was only one problem: the end result was something else entirely. Simply put, it was one of the year’s worst...

By Zach Goins February 8, 2020 Listening to music is one thing, but witnessing how it’s made and what goes into the creative process is another– and Netflix gives music lovers plenty of opportunities to go behind the scenes with some of the world’s most...

By Jonathan Shuping January 17, 2020 In the spring of 1995, producing behemoths Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop) tapped a little known music video director named Michael Bay to helm their latest action blockbuster, Bad Boys. It was a haymaker of a...