Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that? Set against the backdroup of a group of friends ensconced in late 1980s Edinburgh’s kinetic, underground world
“Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?” Not only did Danny Boyle manage to put Irvine Welsh‘s “unadaptable” novel ‘Trainspotting’ on celluloid, but he did it with such kinetic, frenetic and phenomenally stylish aplomb that he also managed to craft one
There’s a strain of American pastoral cinema that found a patron saint in Terrence Malick and talismans in the solemn reveries of Badlands and Days of Heaven. Train Dreams belongs to this tradition, and it’s a thing of beauty. Based on the novella by Denis Johnson and set in the
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top
“Talk to me, Goose.” Get ready to bringing back that loving feeling (or maybe take your breath away) at the Rio Theatre for a Friday Late Night Movie screening of one of the 80’s most iconic blockbusters: TOP GUN. We feel the need… for speed! Tony Scott‘s 1986 blockbuster TOP
Germany’s Best Foreign Language nominee in this year’s Oscar race, TONI ERDMANN, is a one-of-a-kind father-daughter story that hits all the right notes – raw, painful, awkward, and laugh-out-loud funny – and is one of 2016’s the most memorable films. The Germans are funny? It turns out they are, and
“See me, Feel me, Touch me, Heal me…” In 1975, filmmaker Ken Russell and iconic Brit rockers The Who brought the band’s classic 1969 concept album TOMMY to life with the release of the eponymous psychedelic musical fantasy drama, which, in addition to the band, boasted an outstanding, star-studded ensemble
“One of cinema’s greatest masterpieces.” (Film Comment) Loosely based it on the relatively obscure 1937 American film MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW, director Yasujirō Ozu‘s TOKYO STORY was initially released in Japan in 1953, to little attention. It was initially considered “too Japanese” to be marketable abroad, but in the
TOKYO GODFATHERS, the acclaimed holiday classic from master director Satoshi Kon (PAPRIKA, PERFECT BLUE), returns to theaters in a brand-new, 4K restoration. In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people’s lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast
Having spent most of his childhood growing up in Juvenile halls and Remand homes, Toby is a stranger to the many faces of man. But falling prey to the cruel world, he is exploited for his mutism as nothing but a tool to foster crime and hatred. Toby’s eccentric