Stormy

Go behind the curtain with Stormy Daniels as she shares her story. The film follows her reinventing herself while grappling with events from 5 years earlier that made her an unlikely American icon. “It’s a successful attempt to strip away the political issues and present its subject as a flesh-and-blood

Starlet

Writer-director Sean Baker (RED ROCKET, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, TANGERINE) joins us live (via Skype) for a double bill that includes a screening of his latest acclaimed feature, RED ROCKET, followed by his 2013 debut film, STARLET. (Besides being drawn from the same creative mind, the two films occupy the same cinematic universe… As Mr. Baker will

Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory

“It explodes in the no-man’s land no picture ever dared cross before!” Adapting Humphrey Cobb‘s novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty.

Souleymane’s Story

Racing through the streets of Paris on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane (Abou Sangare, in a breakthrough performance) is struggling to stay afloat as an undocumented gig worker, delivering food to middle class Parisians using a “borrowed” account, for which he pays a percentage of his hard-earned wages. In two

Soul’s Road (Filmmakers in Attendance)

Some Like It Hot

“I wanna be loved by you, Just you, nobody else but you. I wanna be loved by you alo-o-one…. Boop boop e doo.” In anticipation of Netflix’s upcoming feature BLONDE (adapted from Joyce Carol Oates‘ biographical novel of the same name), we thought

Skinamarink (Final Screening)

In this house… Following its wildly impressive debut at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival, the micro-budget Canadian horror film SKINAMARINK became a legitimate viral internet sensation before becoming a bona fide pop-culture phenomenon – and one of the most profitable independent films ever made. “Films like this come

Skeet (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)

Fresh out of prison, Billy Skinner returns to his transformed low-income neighbourhood, now populated by Syrian refugees. Struggling to overcome his dark past, Billy forges an unexpected bond with Mo, a compassionate Syrian immigrant determined to build a better life for his family. With Jay Abdo, Lawrence Barry, Kate Corbett.

She Talks to Strangers (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)

Divorcée Leslie discovers that her deadbeat ex-husband Keith has moved back in to “lay low for a while” and to stake claim on what he feels is owed to him: half the value of her house. In need of an accomplice, Leslie turns to her mother Staci in order to

Shadow Rule The Light

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Tuesday, May 27 for the premiere of the Vancouver B Movie Factory Production’s latest movie, SHADOW RULE THE LIGHT. The film follows the self-proclaimed “Best Filmmaker Ever” robot, T.O.S.T.Y. He reluctantly showcases his latest creation to his executive producer, sextillionaire Tracy Cake. Watch