Kids Culture Film: Kooky

Kids Culture Film Series launches their fifth season with a return of the box office hit—KOOKY! This is the film that started it all! SUNDAY SEPT 11th 12:45pmClassification: PG (Coarse language) Recommended Ages 6 and up Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-HepzSWGc Tickets: Adults $9, kids $6 http://kidsculturekooky.bpt.me  brownpapertickets.com $10/$7 at the door Doors open at 12:15 “It’s amazing what Jan Sverák (Kolya) … Read more

The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

Can you believe that The Gentlemen Hecklers have been riffing movies at the Rio Theatre for… four years?! My, how time flies (especially when you’re in a darkened movie theatre with adult beverages). Celebrate this milestone of cinematic hilarity by revisiting the very first film the Hecklers heckled, that Jeremy Irons gem DUNGEONS & DRAGONS … Read more

Phantom Boy

An 11-year-old boy becomes an unlikely superhero when he discovers that he has the ability to leave his body and fly through walls. The highly anticipated new film from the Academy Award®-nominated writers and directors of A Cat in Paris is a stylish noir caper, set in the shadowy streets and alleyways of New York. … Read more

Legend

“No Good without Evil. No Love Without Hate. No Innocence without Lust. I am Darkness.”   In 1985, director Ridley Scott‘s went deep into the world of phantasmagoric cinematic sci-fi fantasy with Legend, a bleak yet beautiful adventure film that has since emerged as a true cult-classic for Children of the 80s (and anyone who … Read more

El Topo

Renowned filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s bizarre, ultra-violent and allegorical EL TOPO is an acid-trip Western set in two halves that have widely been compared to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. In the first half, writer-director Jodorowsky performs something of a hat trick in his role as a violent, black-clad gunfighter – the eponymous El Topo (“the … Read more

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” and an unusual bag of tricks, the … Read more

The Last Starfighter (Storm Crow Sunday!)

Join us at the Rio Theatre for a special presentation of cult 80s sci-fi adventure classic The Last Starfighter, presented in partnership with our friends at Storm Crow Tavern on Commercial Drive and the brand-new Storm Crow Alehouse on Broadway. (What does this mean? Here’s what this means: Show your online receipt/ticket/proof of purchase to … Read more

The Goonies (40th Anniversary Screening)

“Hey you guu-uuys!” Join us at the Rio Theatre for a 40th Anniversary family-friendly screening of what is – hands down – one of the all time most-requested titles we get, director Richard Donner‘s THE GOONIES. Written by Chris Columbus from a story by the film’s producer Steven Spielberg, this beloved 80s childhood classic follows a … Read more

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Raiders. Temple. Crusade. All Indiana. All Night Long. Join us at the Rio Theatre for the ultimate big screen movie adventure marathon: Steven Spielberg’s monumentally awesome Indiana Jones series. Think Harrison Ford, snakes, whips, numerous Nazis, numerous Nazis getting punched, monkey brains, and more… All night long. (And yes, you read that right: “trilogy.” Because … Read more