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
A new, important horror voice came onto the scene this year when British-Filipino filmmaker Paris Zarcilla’s debut feature, RAGING GRACE, took top honours at festivals including SXSW and Neuchatel, in addition to being lauded at countless others on the festival circuit.. Joy (Max Eigenmann) is an undocumented Filipino immigrant struggling to do the best she … Read more
Join us on Sunday, August 17 for a double feature that celebrates actor Robert De Niro (on his birthday!) and includes two of our favourite performances from his many collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese – RAGING BULL and TAXI DRIVER. RAGING BULL is an indisputable cinematic triumph, a black and white biopic that is often lauded as … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a slice of something seriously 80’s, the oft-requested, always capitalized, cult-classic RAD. The 1986 BMX racing film is returning to theaters with a new 40th anniversary restoration. Bill Allen stars as a bicycle-motocrosser who tries to enter a corrupt promoter’s nationally televised cash-prize race. Also starring Lori Loughlin, … Read more
Daniel Craig has turned in one of 2024’s most celebrated performances in prolific Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, CHALLENGERS) languid period drama QUEER, adapted from William S. Burroughs‘ 1985 romantic novella of the same name. Set in the 1950’s, Craig (perhaps best-known as James Bond) stars as William Lee, an American … Read more
An extraordinary, true-life tale that follows Mildred Burke, the legendary professional wrestler and single mom who defied incredible odds to become the first million-dollar female athlete and longest reigning champion at a time when the sport was banned across most of America.With Emily Bett Rickards, Parker Posey, Josh Lucas, Walton Goggins, Francesca Eastwood, Carla Buono. … Read more
Dearly beloved We are gathered here today To get through this thing called “life” Electric word, life It means forever and that’s a mighty long time But I’m here to tell you There’s something else The afterworld… The Rio Theatre’s patented Friday Late Night Movie series continues on February 27 with a screening of The … Read more
Christian Slater stars in this teen drama as a loner student from the East who enrolls at a highly rated Southwest high school and secretly provokes a mini-rebellion in the student body via his pirate radio station. By day, Mark Hunter is a quiet, studious student at an ordinary suburban high school in Arizona. But … Read more
“A boy’s best friend is his mother. “ Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for … Read more
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