The Muppets perform the classic Charles Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets –Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle — weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spiri
One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh. Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the
Join us at the Rio Theatre for screenings of a film that has earned its place in film history, Jean-Luc Godard‘s seminal French New Wave classic BREATHLESS, which has been beautifully restored for its 60th Anniversary. Adapted from an original treatment from cineaste auteur Francois Truffaut Godard directed the film
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director
The Rio Theatre’s Rio Grind Film Festival concludes on Sunday, November 28 with a screening of a slice of something seriously 80’s, the oft-requested, always capitalized, cult-classic RAD. In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the 1986 BMX racing film has returned to theaters with a new 35th anniversary restoration. Bill
The Rio Grind Film Festival‘s Rio Grind Film Festival presents an encore showing of prolific Oklahoma writer-director Mickey Reece’s latest, AGNES, which has also screened at the New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in Austin. If you’re not familiar with the work of this emerging, “outsider” filmmaker, Reece
In Halle Berry’s directorial debut, BRUISED, a disgraced MMA fighter finds redemption in the cage and the courage to face her demons when the son she had given up as an infant unexpectedly re-enters her life. Oscar-winner Berry does double duty here, directing herself as Jackie Justice, a mixed
A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson. With Noomi Rapace. “Darkly imaginative and
Join us on Thursday, November 11 – Remembrance Day – for a daytime screening of Steven Spielberg‘s epic World War Two film, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. As much as Remembrance Day is centred upon the Armistice achieved on the Western Front on November 11, 1918, when it comes to