Movies
Film Rating: R
Saturday Night Fever
“You should be dancing. Yeah.” Tony Manero (John Travolta) doesn’t have much going for him during the weekdays. He still lives at home and works as a paint store clerk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. But he lives for the weekends, when he and his friends go to
Saturday Night
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Directed by Jason Reitman (JUNO, UP IN THE AIR), written by Gil Kenan and Reitman and told in real time, SATURDAY NIGHT is based on the true story of
Rushmore
“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?” Wes Anderson’s RUSHMORE chronicles a year in the life of Max Fischer (a career-making debut performance from Jason Schwartzman), a student at Rushmore Academy, one of the finest schools in the country. Max loves his prestigious school; he is the editor of
Room
Directed by Lenny Abramson (FRANK) and adapted from the award-wining novel ROOM by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue (who also wrote the screenplay), Brie Larson (Golden Globe winner, Best Actress in a Feature Film Drama) and young Jacob Tremblay offer a magical, compelling, and completely intertwined performance as a mother and
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (25th Anniversary Screening!)
“Like if there’s a guy in a rowboat going X miles, and the current is going, like, you know, some other miles, how long does it take him to get to town? It was like, who cares? Who wants to go to town with a guy in a
Roma
The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning writer-director Alfonso Cuarón (GRAVITY, CHILDREN OF MEN, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN), ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in an Oscar-nominated performance), a young domestic worker for the family of Antonio, Sofia (Oscar nominee Marina de Tavira), and their four children in the
Rocketman
ROCKETMAN is an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Sir Elton John‘s breakthrough years. The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation from shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight (Taran Egerton, in a Golden Globe-nominated performance) into international superstar Elton John. This inspirational story — set to Elton
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
It’s not where you go. It’s what you leave behind…. Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 FEET FROM
Road House
“The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty.” Join us at the Rio Theatre for another lazy, hazy, Crazy-for-Swayze kinda night, featuring two classic titles starring the inimitable Patrick Swayze: Starting with a DIRTY DANCING featuring the release of author, ANDREA WARNER‘s new book The Time of My Life, then it’s
Rio Grind Film Festival: The Howling (2021 Restoration) 40th Anniversary Screening
The Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with a 40th Anniversary screening of director Joe Dante‘s “biting’ satire on werewolf movies, THE HOWLING. Dee Wallace (E.T.) stars as Karen White, a LA news anchor with a serial killer for a stalker, leads the man into a trap