On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were … Read more
Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial. Magnificent, mercurial. Genius. The very embodiment of cool. The man with a sound so beautiful it could break your heart. The central theme of Miles Davis’s life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. It made … Read more
Summer, 2011. Twenty-two-year-old music critic Grace (Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira) moves from Toronto to Montreal’s vibrant Mile End neighbourhood with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s iconic album Jagged Little Pill. But when a loft party introduces her to the underground indie rock band Bone Patrol, Grace falls head over feet for both … Read more
I LIKE MOVIES director Chandler Levack’s latest feature MILE END KICKS is a bright, romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira (HBO’s ‘Euphoria’) as Grace, a young music critic who moves to Montreal to figure out life and love. With Devon Bostick, Jay Baruchel, and Isaiah Lehtinen. “Not everyone will relate to being a critic navigating the … Read more
“A spirited and captivating bio-doc that richly deserves the exclamation point in its title.” – Variety MAVIS! is the first feature documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of the ’60s and hits like ‘I’ll Take You There’ in the … Read more
Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician M.I.A., who continues to shatter conventions with her work, words, and art. Director Stephen Loveridge offers an admiring profile of the tough-minded rapper, who has taken up the cause of Tamil … Read more
Completing a trilogy that follows kaleidoscopic portraits of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana, filmmaker Pablo Larraín turns his keen cinematic eye to the renowned soprano Maria Callas with this stately biopic of the cultural icon. Portraying the epochal diva in her psychologically brittle final days, Angelina Jolie gives a Golden Globe-nominated performance of resounding elemental … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for some seriously studly summer cinema with MAGIC MIKE XXL. Channing Tatum stars in the follow-up to 2012’s box office smash MAGIC MIKE, which also sees Joe Manganiello and Matt Bomer returning to the party. MAGIC MIKE XXL (July 25 – July 31) Saturday, July 25, 7pm -> Adv … Read more
Bradley Cooper’s audacious, visionary, and stylish biopic MAESTRO is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernsten and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, MAESTRO at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love. Cooper does triple duty as writer, director, and … Read more
Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards (including Best Supporting Actor, Paul Dano and Best Original Song) LOVE & MERCY tells its story in an unconventional, if not unwieldy way – much like the life of its principle subject, Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Wilson famously struggled with emerging psychosis while he crafted his avant-garde pop masterpiece, … Read more
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