Movies
Film Rating: PG-13
Malcolm X
“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!” February marks Black History Month, and the Rio Theatre is honouring that with prime time screening of Spike Lee’s MALCOLM X on Sunday, February 11. Lee’s grand, sweeping epic MALCOLM X is a tribute to the controversial
Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
“We don’t need another hero…” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, June 9 as we pay tribute to a true icon, the incomparable Tina Turner, with a screening of MAD MAX 3: BEYOND THUNDERDOME. In George Miller‘s third installment of the franchise, Turner not only steals
M3GAN
M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that’s programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. When Gemma
Loving Vincent
This feature-length painted animation — the first film of its kind (and a 2018 Best Animated Feature Academy Award nominee) — explores the life and unusual death of celebrated painter Vincent Van Gogh via depictions of his artworks, bringing the paintings to life to tell his
Love, Simon
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: He’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing.
Love & Mercy
Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards (including Best Supporting Actor, Paul Dano and Best Original Song) LOVE & MERCY tells its story in an unconventional, if not unwieldy way – much like the life of its principle subject, Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Wilson famously struggled with emerging psychosis while he
Lords of Dogtown (20th Anniversary Screening)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for the third installment of a series presented in partnership with Antisocial AV Club, featuring a 20th anniversary screening of Catherine Hardwicke’s LORDS OF DOGTOWN. Before the movie, head on down to China Creek for an old school skate jam! Prizes
Living
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city’s bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical
Little Shop of Horrors
“Feed me, Seymour. Feed me all night long.” Based on Alan Menken and Howard Ashman‘s 1982 off-Broadway musical, director Frank Oz‘s Little Shop of Horrors takes its own fleshy bite out of Roger Corman‘s original B-movie (1960’s The Little Shop of Horrors, which featured a very young Jack
Lisa Frankenstein
A coming of RAGE love story from Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody (JENNIFER’S BODY, YOUNG ADULT, JUNO) about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous