Movies
Film Rating: R
Wiener-Dog
Billed as the “spiritual successor” of director Todd Solondz’ (Happiness) much-loved coming-of-age satire Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wiener-Dog is in keeping with darkly comic yet deeply vulnerable tone for which he is best known. This latest film is an anthology featuring people who find their lives inspired or changed by
Swiss Army Man
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend”
John Carpenter’s ‘Escape from New York’ (4K Restoration)
In celebration of John Carpenter‘s 1976 gritty action thriller ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 getting the 4K Restoration treatment, we thought we’d also give it the double bill treatment with another Carpenter classic that his fans can’t get enough of – ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK! See one, or see
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Thorsten Schütte’s Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words is a sharply edited and energetic celebration of musician Frank Zappa as seen through his public persona, allowing us to witness his shifting relationship with audiences. Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we
Swingers
“You’re so money and you don’t even know it!” Listen up, beautiful babies: Back in the mid-90s, the dating scene was different, you dig? There was no internet, there were no cellphones (*unless you were Gordon Gecko, maybe?), and there was definitely no swiping left or right if
De Palma
One of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma‘s career started in the 60s and has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, and Mission: Impossible. In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving
Bordello of Blood (20th Anniversary Screening!) Filmmakers in Attendance for Q and A
Join us on Saturday, July 16 at the Rio Theatre for a very special 20th Anniversary screening of Bordello of Blood. Featured guests for this event include director Gil Adler, special effects creator Todd Masters, and John Kassir (aka, the voice of the Crypt Keeper!) via Skype. Shot in Vancouver,
Creepshow
When two of the horror world’s greatest masters get together, you’re gonna get a masterpiece! Directed by George Romero from a script by Stephen King, Creepshow is a total 80s cult classic compendium inspired by the EC and DC horror comics of the 1950s. Ostensibly an anthology film of five
The Holy Mountain (50th Aniversary Screening)
The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Chilean writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in THE HOLY MOUNTAIN is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the
What We Do in the Shadows
From the writing-directing team of Jemaine Clement (FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS) and Taika Waititi (JOJO RABBIT, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE, THOR: Ragnarok) comes a bloody high-larious tale in which an endearingly un-hip quartet of kiwi vampire friends reveal to us or, rather, to the documentary crew that’s filming