Movies
Film Rating: 14 A
Wet Hot American Summer (#SavetheRio Fundraiser!)
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It’s the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there’s still a summer’s worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in
Tombstone (2025 Restoration)
The legendary “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” that took place in 1881 is firmly rooted in American mythology and the imagination of movie-lovers since the dawn of cinema, inspiring countless films within the Western genre. The event and its prime characters supply the basis for George Cosmatos‘ (RAMBO: FIRST
Together
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens
This Living Salish Sea (Director in Attendance for Q&A!)
The Salish Sea is one of the flash points and metaphors for issues affecting the environmental diversity and ecological sustainability that will severely impact future generations, world wide. Sarama’s documentary THIS LIVING SALISH SEA look below the mirror of the surface, to explore some of the living treasures that inhabit
They Call Him OG
THEY CALL HIM OG marks the explosive comeback of Pawan Kalyan, unleashing him in his fiercest and most intense avatar yet. After a decade in hiding, Ojas Gambheera — the Original Gangster — returns, and the underworld will never be the same. Directed by Sujeeth and produced on a massive scale by DVV Entertainment (RRR fame), the film pits
The Virgin Suicides
In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, s
The Terminator
Join us at the Rio Theatre for of one of our all-time favourite double bills, James Cameron‘s original 1984 dystopian masterpiece THE TERMINATOR (which was beautofully restored and remastered for its 40th Anniversary in 2024)followed by its 1991 sequel, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY. Disguised as a human, a seemingly indestructible
The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson goes the distance with his transformative turn as Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie‘s (UNCUT GEMS) THE SMASHING MACHINE, a gritty biopic that sidesteps cliché even at the expense of narrative satisfaction while still landing the dramatic body blows that count. With Emily Blunt. “He gives a transformative performance.” (Variety)
The Matrix Resurrections
In 2021, Lana Wachowski surprised sci-fi fans around the world with another foray into the beloved Matrix franchise, thanks to the somewhat unexpected reboot The Matrix Resurrections. This fourth installment (and likely end) to the thrilling cyberpunk saga has stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss returning to reprise their roles
The Matrix (25th Anniversary Screening!)
“There is no spoon.” Join us at the Rio Theatre for a much-needed, big screen re-visitation of the Wachowski‘s landmark 1999 blockbuster, THE MATRIX – one of the most influential, martial-arts fueled, futuristic cyber-punk sci-fi fantasies ever made. Set in 1999, Keanu Reeves stars as Thomas A. Anderson