From Dusk Till Dawn

Now with a Halloween night costume contest and scary movie trivia party! Test your trivia and come dressed up for prizes and and more!! As much as Halloween is a celebration of all things goblins, ghouls, ghosts n’ glitter, it’s also one of the highest holy days on the calendar for horror movie-lovers to dedicate … Read more

Point Break (Double Bill)

“The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty.” Join us at the Rio Theatre for another lazy, hazy, Swayze summer night featuring two classic titles starring the inimitable Patrick Swayze, POINT BREAK and ROAD HOUSE. Thursday, August 6 POINT BREAK Doors 6:30 | Movie 7:00 ROAD HOUSE Doors 9:00 | Movie 9:30 Each film $8 advance … Read more

The Gentlemen Hecklers Present Batman & Robin (1997)

Join The Gentlemen Hecklers on Wednesday, September 12 as they celebrate an incredible six (!) years of movie riffing at the Rio Theatre by cracking wise with a screening of Joel Schumacher‘s BATMAN & ROBIN. (Yes… The one with George Clooney. And Uma Thurman. And Ah-nuld!) The Gentlemen Hecklers provide live, hilarious commentary for the … Read more

Rumble in the Bronx

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

The Outsiders

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold” S.E. Hinton‘s landmark novel ‘The Outsiders’ celebrated 50 years of staying gold in 2017; we thought it seemed fitting to revisit this classic story – and Francis Ford Coppola’s timeless film – with a prime time screening of THE OUTSIDERS on Tuesday, June 27. Hinton co-wrote the screenplay, making for … Read more

Point Break

“Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, August 18 for one of our all-time favourite summer staples, Kathryn Bigelow‘s action-packed surfer/skydiving/undercover crime flick POINT BREAK, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. (Even better…? This screening just happens to be on the … Read more

The Godfather: Part II (2022 Restoration)

We’re gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse…. Above all else, we here at the Rio Theatre are movie lovers. And there’s nothing we love more than seeing some of the all-time classics of cinema on the big screen, just as nature intended. With that in mind, we felt there as no better way … Read more

The Godfather (50th Anniversary Screening! 2022 Restoration)

We’re gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse…. Above all else, we here at the Rio Theatre are movie lovers. And there’s nothing we love more than seeing some of the all-time classics of cinema on the big screen, just as nature intended. With that in mind, we felt there as no better way … Read more

Soaked in Bleach

Benjamin Statler’s SOAKED IN BLEACH examines the events behind Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s death, as seen through the eyes of private investigator Tom Grant. In 1994, Grant was hired by Cobain’s wife Courtney Love to track down her missing husband days before his body was found at their Seattle home. Though Cobain’s death was ruled … Read more

The Blues Brothers

“They’ll never get caught. They’re on a mission from God.” To mark our run of the new documentary LIVE FROM NY! (opening June 15), we thought the time was right to give a little big screen love to one of our favourite (if not the first!) SNL-inspired movies, THE BLUES BROTHERS. Scripted by Dan Aykroyd … Read more