The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on with a screening of one of our favourite and most frequently requested titles – the bizarro 70’s Japanese cult-classic oddity that is HOUSE (“Hausu”). Some movies can’t be explained; they need to be experienced. HOUSE is one of those movies. (Trust.) How to describe Nobuhiko … Read more
Assume the position. Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader smoulder as an unlikely couple whose workplace relationship unexpectedly blossoms into something… Beyond the professional. SECRETARY is an all-time Rio Theatre audience fan-favourite, and one of our most requested romances – a perfect fit for our Friday Late Night Movie series in February. Sexy, sweet, hilarious and shocking, … Read more
“She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.” John Cusack’s iconic performance as the infinitely lovable boombox-toting kickboxer Lloyd Dobler, who decides to woo school valedicatorian Diane Court (“a brain trapped in the body of a game show hostess”) in director Cameron Crowe’s SAY ANYTHING…, is, … Read more
Director Ben Stiller (who also co-wrote the film), leads an all-star ensemble inlcuding Robert Downey Jr. Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Nick Nolte, and Bill Hader in a one of the funniest spoofs of war films (and Hollywood!) ever made. TROPIC THUNDER follows about a group of self-absorbed, pampered actors who set … Read more
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi! Join us at the Rio Theatre on Tuesday, January 26 as we raise our glass and toast the land down under (where women glow and men plunder) on Australia Day with the hilarious cult-classic comedy THE CASTLE followed by the controversial CHOPPER, starring Eric Bana in the true story … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a film series featuring some of the nominated films and performances being honoured by the Golden Globes, including STEVE JOBS, GRANDMA, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, SHAUN THE SHEEP, THE HATEFUL 8, TRAINWRECK, and LOVE & MERCY. On January 10, we will be hosting a *free* Golden Globes 2016 … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a film series featuring some of the nominated films and performances being honoured by the Golden Globes, including STEVE JOBS, GRANDMA, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, SHAUN THE SHEEP, THE HATEFUL 8, TRAINWRECK, and LOVE AND MERCY. On January 10, we will be hosting a *free* Golden Globes 2016 … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a film series featuring some of the nominated films and performances being honoured by the Golden Globes, including STEVE JOBS, GRANDMA, TRAINWRECK, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, SHAUN THE SHEEP, THE HATEFUL 8, and LOVE & MERCY. On January 10, we will be hosting a *free* Golden Globes 2016 … Read more
“That was pure wild animal craziness.” Based on the beloved children’s book ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox‘ by Roald Dahl, director Wes Anderson‘s animated adaptation is a delightfully charming and completely entertaining tale of an urbane fox (“vulpus vulpus”) who returns to his former farm-raiding ways and helps his community of animal friends survive the local farmers’ … Read more
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.” For many people, the magic of the holiday season does not hit until (and perhaps unless) the nostalgic and utterly hilarious cinematic chestnut about a boy in the 1940s whose only real desire is to have Santa Claus gift him an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range … Read more
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