In director Prashanth Neel‘s upcoming epic neo-noir action saga SALAAR Part 1: Ceasefire, a gang leader (Prabhas) makes a promise to a dying friend by taking on other criminal gangs. With Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Hassan. Thursday, December 21 Doors 1:05 pm | Movie 1:35 pm*Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Adult Tickets … Read more
Pongal 2024 is coming to the Rio Theatre! The Telugu-language action crime drama film SAINDHAV is headed to the Rio Theatre on January 13. SAINDHAV is an upcoming Indian Telugu-language action thriller film directed by Sailesh Kolanu and produced by Venkat Boyanapalli under Niharika Entertainment. It stars Venkatesh Daggubati in the lead role alongside Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arya, Andrea Jeremiah, Shraddha Srinath, Baby … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on April 14 with the Vancouver-lensed action smash that properly introduced the iconic actor and martial artist Jackie Chan to Western audiences, RUMBLE IN THE BRONX. Hong Kong policeman Keung (Chan) arrives in New York (but really, it’s Vancouver… mountains!) for the wedding of his uncle … Read more
Seven total strangers team up for the perfect crime. They don’t know each other’s name… But they’ve got each other’s colour. We’re dimming the lights, firing up the projector, and raising a glass (or two) to the late, great Michael Madsen, a seasoned performer who possessed an uncanny knack for creating vivid, sometimes edgy, occasionally … Read more
Darren Aronofsky‘s hyperstylish REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is a lucid and devastating fever dream of a film, with a deliberately frenzied and kinetic pace that draws its audience down the very spirals experienced by the protagonists’ own horrific descent into addictive behaviours. Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of human beings longing to connect, to love and … Read more
It’s 2007 in Pfresno, Texas. Raphael is in county jail following an arrest for graffiti. He’s a good kid. It’s just graffiti. So you can’t blame Raphael for the events that unfold after his arrest. He’s not responsible for the sting operation, the suicide, Pflophaus’s new mix-tape, Officer Williams and her delusional suspicions, the meth … Read more
Long before Quentin Tarantino was filing away endless VHS tapes as a video store clerk while dreaming up his signature approach to unconventional cinematic story logic that twists narrative structure and messes with an audience’s response to time – there was Akira Kurosawa‘s indelibly awesome (not to mention monumentally influential) RASHOMON. Brimming with action while … Read more
In this visceral thriller from director Uwe Boll (HEART OF AMERICA, POSTAL), Brendan Fletcher stars as misanthrope Bill Williamson, a man whose boredom with “small town life” is eating him alive. Feeling constrained and claustrophobic in the meaningless drudgery of the everyday and helpless against overwhelming global dissolution, Bill begins a descent into madness. Fueled … Read more
Bong (Donnie Yen) is a highly respected hardline cop with a long history of success on dangerous cases. However, his past unexpectedly comes back to haunt him when a sting operation is attacked by a mysterious group of criminals led by Ngo (Nicholas Tse), his former protégé, a talented former officer who had once respected … Read more
The clash is on as Pushpa and Bhanwar Singh continue their rivalry in this epic conclusion to the two-parted action drama. Wednesday, December 4 – TELUGU w. EST Early Show Doors 2:00 pm | Movie 2:20 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets HERE Shorter patrons (or those with young children) … Read more
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