Oscar-nominated Canadian filmmaker Celine Song follows up her 2023 breakout hit, the romantic drama PAST LIVES, with another thoughtful take on modern love, MATERIALISTS. Dakota Johnson stars as a young New York City matchmaker whose lucrative business gets complicated when she finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. Like PAST LIVES, Song’s … Read more
Join us on Saturday, May 11 – Mother’s Day Weekend! – and get ready to dance, jive, and have the time of your life with a very special Terminal City Roller Derby fundraiser screening of singalong favourite, MAMMA MIA! Terminal City Roller Derby was established in 2006, and was Vancouver’s first flat track roller derby … Read more
“Magic” Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite (Salma Hayek Pinault) who lures him with an … 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
MADHARAASI is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language psychological action thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss. Thursday, September 4 Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:20 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets HERE *Please note: Shorter patrons (or those with young children) will have a better balcony viewing experience if … Read more
Following the massive international success of 2005’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee turned his lens to another period adaptation, this time to Eileen Chang’s 1979 novella “Lust Caution.” Inspired by a true story and set in Hong Kong and Shanghai during 1938-1942, the hyper-erotic romantic drama received the dreaded NC-17 rating in the … Read more
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and … Read more
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: He’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing. Directed by Greg Berlanti (Riverdale, … Read more
LOVE, ACTUALLY: The best or worst Christmas movie of all time? Every year, Pop This! co-hosts Lisa Christiansen and Andrea Warner fight about the THE HOLIDAY vs. LOVE, ACTUALLY. For the fifth annual argument, we’re keeping the focus on LOVE, ACTUALLY and taking our fight to the Rio Theatre. With special guests comedian and author … Read more
“To me you are perfect.” Rom-com master Richard Curtis (who also wrote FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL, BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY) wrote and directs a star-studded cast in LOVE ACTUALLY, a holiday staple that’s achieved a kind of cult-status in the years since its release in 2003. The mostly British ensemble (including Hugh Grant, … Read more
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