Movies
Film Rating: PG
Hocus Pocus
Calling all 90s kids! Join us at the Rio Theatre this October for one of the hands-down, most requested Halloween titles we get, the original 1993 classic HOCUS POCUS. After moving to Salem, Mass., teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and
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
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Details: Join us at the Rio Theatre on January 21 and January 22 for a weekend-long HARRY POTTERTHON! Muggles of all ages welcome in the balcony, and audience costumes are both welcome and encouraged. Get ready for trivia, costumes, drink specials, and some magical surprises! On January 21
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Released in 2001, the first cinematic adaptation of of JK Rowling’s earth-shifting Harry Potter series made instant stars out of its young stars, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint. Radcliffe stars as the fabled eleven-year-old orphan who discovers that he is a wizard, and is invited to study
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Details: Join us at the Rio Theatre on January 21 and January 22 for a weekend-long HARRY POTTERTHON! Muggles of all ages welcome in the balcony, and audience costumes are both welcome and encouraged. Get ready for trivia, costumes, drink specials, and some magical surprises! On January 21
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Details: Join us at the Rio Theatre on January 21 and January 22 for a weekend-long HARRY POTTERTHON! Muggles of all ages welcome in the balcony, and audience costumes are both welcome and encouraged. Get ready for trivia, costumes, drink specials, and some magical surprises! On January 21
Harold and Maude
“They were meant to be. But exactly what they were meant to be is not quite clear.” Hal Ashby’s HAROLD AND MAUDE has got to be one of the most unconventional love stories ever, which is one of the main reasons that is has remained a crowd-pleaser (and one of
Harold and Maude
Director Hal Ashby‘s sublime romantic black comedy stars a young Bud Cort as Harold, the son of a wealthy wealthy, neglectful woman. Disillusioned with life and obsessed with death to a morbid degree, he tries to gain attention for himself with various hilariously staged “suicides.” At a funeral, he meets
Hairspray (Hosted by Ricki Lake!)
“I’m a bad, bad girl who needs to be punished.” In honour of Ricki Lake‘s appearance at the Rio Theatre to promote her excellent new documentary WEED THE PEOPLE, we felt like we absolutely had to screen one of the best loved (if not best known) films from one of
Groundhog Day (30th Anniversary Screening)
“I wake up every day, right here, right in Punxsutawney, and it’s always February 2nd, and there’s nothing I can do about it.” We got you, babe. There’s no better way to mark Groundhog Day (Thursday, February 2) than with a big-screen viewing of this quirky, oddball