Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Friday, September 13 LIGHTING UP THE STARS (人生大事) Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:30 pm*Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets $8+ GST/ Available at the box office on … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Friday, September 13 B FOR BUSY （爱情神话） Doors 10:00 am | Movie 10:30 am*Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets $8+ GST/ Available at the box office on the … Read more
In collaboration with the Rio Theatre, Antisocial AV CLUB present to you a curated night of skateboard films that you may or may not have heard of before… Join us as we dive into the skateboard archive for the 15th anniversary screening of Alex Craig and Corey Adams’ epic adventure, MACHOTAILDROP (2009). Young Walter Rhum spends … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 30 with one of the aii-time classic grindhouse films ever made, Ruggero Deodato’s exploitation staple CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. Since its release in 1980, the film has been both banned and heavily censored throughout the world; decades after its release it continues to be a film … Read more
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother (Edith Bouvier Beale) and daughter (Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale), high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of the Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An … Read more
The Rio Theatre is excited to welcome back our old friend / “Patron Saint,” filmmaker Kevin Smith, for the Canadian Premiere of his 16th feature film, THE 4:30 MOVIE. Following the screening, Kevin will be joining us on stage to talk about the film for a conversation and Q&A session. Via JoBlo: Set in the … Read more
In the early 1970s, during a resurgence of interest in the Delta blues, music documentarian Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture on film the remnants of the authentic American blues. Traveling throughout the deep South, Manthoulis filmed candid interviews and intimate performances by such legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Terry & … Read more
In this new supernatural spectacle from CAVEAT’s Damian McCarthy, a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin. When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, … Read more
After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new world record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while live-streaming every minute of her mythic quest. Drawing from an archive of more than 3,000 hours of Narcissa’s … Read more
Shadowed by the torment of the murder of his entire family, the young, wary Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather Tiberius (Peter O’Toole) and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire as it descends into a spiral of depravity, destruction and madness. A treatise on the corrupting influence of power, this extensive reconstruction … Read more
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