Movies
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Good Burger
“Welome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?” Listen up, 90s kids! One of your all-time faaaaaaaavourites (Top 5, right?) is finally getting the Friday Late Night Movie treatment at the Rio Theatre. Babyfaced Nickelodeon stars (ALL THAT) Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell star
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: The Room
“Oh, hai Mark!” Vancouver’s masters of movie-riffing, The Gentlemen Hecklers, are taking on their biggest challenge yet: Tommy Wiseau‘s epic, pop-culture masterpiece, THE ROOM. This legendary stinker is easily the Rio Theatre audiences’ all-time, hands-down forever favourite “so bad, it’s good” movie, our collective guiltiest cinematic pleasure, the
Purple Rain
Dearly beloved We are gathered here today To get through this thing called “life” Electric word, life It means forever and that’s a mighty long time But I’m here to tell you
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Rio Theatre‘s series of Y2K classics continues on August 19 with a screening of Guillermo del Toro‘s phantasmagorical PAN’S LABYRINTH. Set just after the Spanish Civil War in 1944, del Toro’s protagonist is bookish young Ofelia, whose forthcoming adventure recalls a more hauntind, daunting Alice in her Wonderland. As
Midnight Special
Actor Michael Shannon reteams with writer/director Jeff Nichols (TAKE SHELTER) in MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, a sci-fi drama about a father and his eight-year-old son who go on the lam, on the run from the government and a certain doomsday cult, upon discovering that the young boy possesses mysterious powers… Also starring
Live Script Reading & Screening of THE ROOM with Greg Sestero!
On May 27th, Rio Theatre is tackling something weirdly special for the 13 year anniversary of THE ROOM! A full-length live script reading of actor/director/producer/screenwriter Tommy Wiseau’s very first draft of THE ROOM, with dialogue and plot events that’re very different from the polished version that wound up on-screen. Greg
Jurassic Park (1993)
“Life… Finds a way.” One of our favourite annual events that we adore participating in and being a part of is Italian Day on the Drive. Like everyone in Vancouver, we have really missed this East Vancouver tradition, and are celebrating its return with some of our most
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: Green Lantern
The Gentlemen Hecklers return to the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, April 11 with that *other* Ryan Reynolds superhero comic book movie… THE GREEN LANTERN. Also starring Mrs. Reynolds, Blake Lively. “In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of
The Matrix Revolutions
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, May 7 for a marathon screening of the Wachowski’s mind-bending MATRIX trilogy. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano and more star in one of the biggest, most influential martial-arts fueled futuristic fantasy franchises ever! Catch them the way
The Matrix Reloaded
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, May 7 for a marathon screening of the Wachowski’s mind-bending MATRIX trilogy. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano and more star in one of the biggest, most influential martial-arts fueled futuristic fantasy franchises ever! Catch them the way