Movies
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (40th Anniversary Screening)
FRIDAY THE 13th on… Friday, the 13th….? (So meta!) The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 13 with a 40th Anniversary screening of the sixth installment of the legendary franchise, JASON LIVES. In this installment, Tommy Jarvis and a friend exhume Jason’s corpse in order to
Marriage Story
Oscar-nominated writer-director Noah Baumbach (THE SQUID AND THE WHALE) returns to familiar familial territory with MARRIAGE STORY, an incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up, and a family staying together. The story chronicles the story of a stage director (Adam Driver) and his actor wife (Scarlett Johansson) as
The Lighthouse
From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece THE VVITCH, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe – both, never better – ably command the screen in this thoroughly
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Brittany Forgler is a hilarious, friendly, hot mess of a New Yorker who always knows how to have a good time, but at 27, her late-night adventures and early-morning walks-of-shame are starting to catch up to her. When she stops by a Yelp-recommended doctor’s office in an attempt to score
It Chapter Two
Evil resurfaces in Derry as director Andy Muschietti reunites the Losers Club in a return to where it all began with IT Chapter Two the conclusion to the highest-grossing horror film of all time. Twenty-seven years after the Losers Club defeated the supernatural, big-headed clown Pennywise, he has returned to
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood
“That was the best acting I’ve ever seen in my whole life.” Set in Los Angeles in 1969, at the the height of hippy Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino‘s ninth feature film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019) was nominated for a slew of Oscars, and ended up with a
The Blair Witch Project
Released in 1999, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was an unlikely box-office hit that ultimately ended up a total cinematic game-changer, captivating critics and audiences around the world while ushering in the entirely modern, “found footage” horror genre in its wake. Comprised of a mix of “found footage” Hi-8 video with
Dolemite (1975)
A lasting testament to both rap pioneer / nightclub comic par excellence Rudy Ray Moore and the sun-bleached, smog-covered vistas of ‘70s L.A., DOLEMITE remains one of blaxploitation’s greatest achievements. When Rudy first took his Chitlin’ Circuit act to the silver screen, few outside black neighborhoods noticed at first —
Luce
It’s been ten years since Amy and Peter Edgar (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) adopted their son from war-torn Eritrea, and they thought the worst was behind them. Luce Edgar (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) has become an all-star student beloved by his community in Arlington, Virginia. His African American teacher, Harriet
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
In the dead of winter, Kat and Rose, two very different girls, find themselves spending winter break at their prestigious prep school. What they don’t know is that Kat is being stalked by an evil entity, and their lives are about to change forever. Meanwhile, Joan, a young, troubled woman,