Movies
Genre: Comedy
Mermaids (35th Anniversary Restoration)
New England…the early 1960s. A sexy and unpredictable single mother of two is a source of constant embarrassment to her confused 15-year-old daughter, who’s trying to deal with her own sexual awakening and not having an easy time of it. Based on a novel by Patty Dann. Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax
Withnail and I (2025 Restoration)
London. The 1960s. Two unemployed actors—acerbic, elegantly wasted Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and the anxiety-ridden “I” (Paul McGann)—drown their frustrations in booze, pills, and lighter fluid. When Withnail’s flamboyantly gay Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) offers his cottage, they escape the squalor of their flat for a week in the country.
Top Secret!
We’re paying tribute to the late, great Val Kilmer by dimming the lights and firing up the projector with a Friday Late Night Movie tribute screening of one of his most memorable roles (and one of the Rio Theatre’s most requested cult-classic films), in the TOP SECRET! Popular
Best in Show
At the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show, a “documentary film crew” captures the excitement and tension displayed by the eccentric participants in the outrageously hilarious satire BEST IN SHOW. This biting send-up (shot in Vancouver!) from the genius comedic minds of Christopher Guest (THIS IS SPINAL TAP) and Eugene Levy (SCTV)
Miss Congeniality (25th Anniversary Screening)
“Describe your perfect date…?” Join us at the Rio Theatre for a 25th Anniversary screening of MISS CONGENIALITY on Friday, April 25… It’s the perfect date, because it’s it’s not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. The full range of Sandra Bullock‘s
The Ugly Stepsister
A sinister, twisted twist on the classic Brothers Grimm Cinderella story, THE UGLY STEPSISTER follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful and enchanting stepsister Agnes in an attempt to earn Prince Julian’s affection – at any cost. In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal
Highway 61
Canadian film icon Bruce McDonald followed-up his debut feature ROADKILL with the quirky road-trip comedy HIGHWAY 61, a “spiritual sequel” that had him re-teaming with actors Don McKellar and Valerie Buhagier. Pokey Jones (McKellar), a Canadian barber who plays jazz on the side, has his life turned upside down when
Last Night (With Don McKellar & Bruce McDonald Q&A)
Writer-director Don McKellar captured the collective, generational existential angst felt by everyone on the planet as it hurtled towards the potential apocalypse of Y2K doom with, naturally, a darkly comic romantic satire with his 1998 offering, LAST NIGHT. Perfectly capturing the sense of quiet dread and malaise that veiled the
Strange Brew
Making the world safe for beer drinkers everywhere! Canadian comedy icons Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas star as Doug and Bob MacKenzie, two regular hosers out to save the world–one beer at a time–after they discover a comically nefarious global plot in a mug of a Strange
The Monkey
Based on the Stephen King short story, and produced by James Wan (THE CONJURING, SAW), THE MONKEY is a new trip from LONGLEGS writer/director, Osgood Perkins. When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a