All Shall Be Well

This summer, STArt Film Studio presents In the Spectrum of Love, a touring showcase of four iconic Chinese-language films. Across six cities, we invite you to rediscover these unforgettable portraits of intimacy, distance, silence, and resilience. Playing at the Rio Theatre over the course of August 30 & September 7. See one or see all … Read more

Lan Yu (4K Restoration)

This summer, STArt Film Studio presents In the Spectrum of Love, a touring showcase of four iconic Chinese-language films. Across six cities, we invite you to rediscover these unforgettable portraits of intimacy, distance, silence, and resilience. Playing at the Rio Theatre over the course of August 30 & September 7. See one or see all … Read more

Vive L’Amour

This summer, STArt Film Studio presents In the Spectrum of Love, a touring showcase of four iconic Chinese-language films. Across six cities, we invite you to rediscover these unforgettable portraits of intimacy, distance, silence, and resilience. Playing at the Rio Theatre over the course of August 30 & September 7. See one or see all … Read more

Highest 2 Lowest

When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business,” is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a neo-noir re-interpretation of the great filmmaker … Read more

blur: Live at Wembley Stadium

“Yes, it really really really could happen.”  blur: LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM is a cinematic concert film immortalizing the Britpop icons’ biggest shows to date. Recorded over three historic, incredible nights in 2023 for 150,000 fans in a transcendent, once-in-a-generation performance that delivered a sweep of ecstatic 5* reviews. Song highlights include The Narcissist and St … Read more

Hot Spring Shark Attack

The Summer of 2025 marks the year that cinema’s most famous shark (aka, JAWS) turns 50, and it turns out there’s blood in the water (or on the screen?) as movie-loving audiences the world over hunger for more of the terrifying ocean predator. Japanese filmmaker Morihito Inoue makes his feature debut with a horror-comedy that is … Read more

The Mystery of Chess Boxing

Acclaimed hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan are taking over Vancouver on June 30, so we thought it was the perfect time for us to give some big screen love to one of the films that directly influenced them and their music, THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING. Released in 1979, the film is highly regarded as one of … Read more

Dead Man

With DEAD MAN, his first period piece, American auteur Jim Jarmusch (STRANGER THAN PARADISE, DOWN BY LAW, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE) imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country’s legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake … Read more

Conceiving Clara (With Filmmaker Q&A)

Clara, a 42-year-old midwife, has dedicated her life to helping women give birth, yet she yearns deeply for a child of her own. Despite her fear of medical intervention due to her age, she gives in to the pressure from her mother-in-law, Shirin, and undergoes IVF treatment. Her greatest fears come true as devastating complications … Read more

An Evening With Lloyd Kaufman: Tromeo and Juliet

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, June 12 for a very special night featuring filmmaking icon Lloyd Kaufman live and in-conversation alongside screenings of both THE TOXIC AVENGER and TROMEO AND JULIET.Kaufman is perhaps best known as the co-founder of  legendary studio Troma Entertainment, a true champion of independent cinema, and is himself … Read more