We’re getting in the mood for Vancouver Pride Weekend with a special screening of Tamil filmmaker V.T. Nayani‘s sapphic love story, THIS PLACE, on Monday, July 31. Set in urban Toronto, THIS PLACE is a coming-of-adulthood story about two women falling in love for the first time. As they grow closer, each is forced to … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre December 1st 6:30pm for this special screening of Thina Sobabili: The Two Of Us Tuesday, December 1 Doors 6:00pm | Movie 6:30pm Tickets $10 in advance / $12 at the door Advance tickets available HERE *Must be 19+ w/ID for entry **Groupons and passes not accepted for this screening, we … Read more
“There’s a whole ocean of oil under our feet… No one can get at it, except for me!” Loosely based on Upton Sinclair‘s novel Oil! is writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s utterly magnificent epic THERE WILL BE BLOOD, starring Daniel Day-Lewis (in an Oscar-winning performance) as a ruthless oil prospector, is as much a historical drama … Read more
“I don’t ever remember feeling this awake…” Meek housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) joins her friend Louise (Susan Sarandon), an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. Louise decides to flee to … Read more
Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) crafted one of 2023’s most impactful films with his stylistically jarring, innovative take on Martin Amis‘ 2014 novel, THE ZONE OF INTEREST. The story is itself a fictionalized dramatization, loosely inspired by the real-life SS-commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss. Set in German-occupied Poland in the summer 1943, the career-motivated … Read more
Director Joachim Trier (THELMA, LOUDER THAN BOMBS) returns with another modern twist on a classically constructed character portrait of contemporary life in Oslo. Chronicling four years in the life of Julie, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD examines one woman’s quest for love and meaning in the modern world. Fluidly told in twelve chapters, the … Read more
Oscar-winning Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (A FANTASTIC WOMAN, GLORIA) excels in telling stories centred on the lives of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances, and THE WONDER is no exception. Here, he turns his lens back to Victorian-era Ireland in a psychological thriller inspired by the 19th century phenomenon of the “fasting girls,” and adapted from … Read more
THE WOMAN KING is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, THE WOMAN KING follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca (Oscar®-winner Viola Davis) … Read more
Lovers Olena (Tetiana Malkova) and Andrii (Taras Tsymbaliuk) live, savoring every moment spent together. Their idyll is shattered by the invasion of Russian troops. While trying to escape the war zone, the couple encounters Russian soldiers. Andrii dies in Olena’s arms. Olena’s fury and desire for revenge turn into an unstoppable force. Long ago, she … Read more
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Golden Globe winner Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy … Read more
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