Movies
Film Rating: PG
Beat Street
Join us on Sunday, May 31 at the Rio Theatre for a screening of the iconic 1984 hip hop classic BEAT STREET. BEAT STREET helped introduce hip hop culture to the world at a time when it was still a local movement centered in the Bronx, showcasing the four core
Speed Racer (4K Restoration)
Start your engines! In 2008, The Wachowskis brought the classic anime TV series to the big screen with their highly stylized and spirited take on of SPEED RACER. Critically maligned upon its initial release, the film has emerged as a cult-classic, with the shiny, brand-new 4K restoration making a pit
The Last Reckoning (Cast & Crew in Attendance)
THE LAST RECKONING is a 2025 award-winning crime-drama shot in Vancouver produced, written and edited by Grant Gladish, produced and directed by Garnet Campbell, and starring Drummond Macdougall, Grant Gladish, Julien Minet and Anja Marcetic. Set in Seattle when Washington State still had a death penalty, a morally conflicted lawyer
The Art of Adventure
In 1957, renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and spirited biologist Bristol Foster set out on a global expedition in a rugged Land Rover they call “The Grizzly Torque”. Starting in the UK, their travels take them to the far corners of the earth. From the lush rainforests of the
Nacho Libre (20th Anniversary Screening)
In 2006, writer-irector Jared Hess followed up his wildly popular indie cult-comedy NAPOLEON DYNAMITE with NACHO LIBRE, which find a similar groove by employing much of the same deadpan humour and sweet silliness – plus Jack Black. Ignacio (Black), is a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery, can barely afford
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Elvis sings and tells his story like never before in a new cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (MOULIN ROUGE!, ROMEO + JULIET). “Resurrecting Elvis Presley at the peak of his showmanship, Baz Luhrmann’s truly epic concert documentary restores some joy into The King’s legacy, thank you very much.”
The Bearded Girl (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)
On the brink of inheriting the position of The Bearded Woman (matriarchal leader to an outcast community of circus performers), a young woman defies her overbearing mother and runs away instead. Free from the expectations and responsibilities at home, she seeks romance and adventure with the normies in
Alpha
Maverick French filmmaker Julia Ducournau (RAW, TITANE) returns to the body-horror genre with her latest film ALPHA, which made its debut in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Set during the 80’s/90’s against the backdrop of a coastal French town, the dystopian drama follows 13 year-old protagonist Alpha (Mélissa
Heard (World Premiere + Cast Q&A Screening)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for the World Premiere of HEARD, a Vancouver-made TELUS Originals film that chronicles five Hard of Hearing people searching for community in the space between Hearing and Deaf. This ALL AGES film is followed by a live Q&A with the cast. HEARD is a
RAD (40th Anniversary Screening)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a slice of something seriously 80’s, the oft-requested, always capitalized, cult-classic RAD. The 1986 BMX racing film is returning to theaters with a new 40th anniversary restoration. Bill Allen stars as a bicycle-motocrosser who tries to enter a corrupt promoter’s nationally televised cash-prize