Movies
Genre: Adventure
The Wizard of Oz (FREE Screening!)
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more…” As a young farm girl caught in one of the most candy-coated, kaleidoscopic whirlwind fantasy fables ever, Judy Garland delivers one of the most iconic performances of all time in one of the most iconic films of
Deliverance
“He got a real purty mouth.” Adapted from James Dickey‘s bestselling novel ‘Deliverance,’ director John Boorman crafted one of the era’s most singularly affecting and definitive films. Re-imagining the “man vs. nature” trope into one of “man vs. man’s nature” he expertly and powerfully contrasted the quiet moments
The Wild Bunch
“We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all.” In director Sam Peckinpah‘s endlessly gritty (if not controversial, and certainly “revisionist”) Western classic, an aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the “traditional” American West
Predator
Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before. It came for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man to hunt. Get to the choppah.. ! For an encore screening of one of the 80s’ biggest sci-fi action-horror-thrillers
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: The Wizard (1989)
Dust your Power Glove off and fire up Double Dragon, because The Gentleman Hecklers are bringing the Nintendo-lovin’ 80s kids movie THE WIZARD to the big screen on Wednesday, May 10. Fred Savage stars as Corey (it was the 80s… of course he was a Corey!), a kid who refuses
The Descent (Director Neil Marshall in Attendance!)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a modern masterpiece of British horror that also manages to pass the Bechdel Test: THE DESCENT. Making this prime time viewing of a claustrophobic feminist cave-diving trip gone (horribly) awry even better will be the presence of director Neil Marshall, who will be
Castle in the Sky: Studio Ghibli at the Rio Theatre
There is no better way to appreciate the magic of Studio Ghibli than on the big screen! CASTLE IN THE SKY (1986) is an early masterpiece of storytelling and filmmaking whose imaginative and ornately detailed vision presaged later films like PRINCESS
The Fifth Element
“You wanna play it soft. We’ll play it soft. You wanna play it hard. Let’s play it hard.” The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series kicks off 2024 on January 5 with Luc Besson‘s brazen, futuretastic THE FIFTH ELEMENT. (Don’t forget your multi-pass!)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (35th Anniversary Screening!)
Kowabunga, dude! Released in 1990, the original live-action TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES adaptation of the cult comic book and the popular animated television show is a bona-fide cult-classic for pretty much anyone who became of age in the 80’s or 90’s. The film establishes the iconic origin story
The Gentlemen Hecklers& JFL: Planet of the Apes
JFL NorthWest in association with SriusXM presents: The Gentlemen Hecklers Hecking: Planet of the Apes (1968) Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Doors at 9pm, Show at 9:30pm Tickets $10 on sale NOW HERE +19 only About The Gentlemen Hecklers: The Gentlemen Hecklers provide