Cagefest 2020: Leaving Las Vegas

“I’ll tell you, right now… I’m in love with you. But, be that as it may, i am not here to force my twisted soul into your life.” Cagefest – our (unofficial) Nicolas Cage Film Fest (aka, NIFF), a solid 5 days’ worth of our fave performances from

Cabaret

Berlin, 1931. As Nazism rises in Germany, flamboyant American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli, never better) sings in a decadent nightclub and falls in love with a British language teacher –whom she shares with a homosexual German baron. But Sally’s small, carefree, tolerant and fragile cabaret world is about to be

But I’m a Cheerleader (25th Anniversary Screening)

The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 1, with a 25th Anniversary screening of the cult-classic fan-fave that’s just in time for Vancouver Pride Weekend, the sapphic coming-of-age comedy BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER. Megan considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school

Bull Durham

“There’s no crying in baseball!” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, August 16 for a baseball doubleheader featuring two summertime classics, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN and BULL DURHAM. See one, or see ’em both! Susan Sarandon sizzles as an especially enthusiastic (she has an affair

Brooklyn

BROOKLYN tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as

Brokeback Mountain (20th Anniversary Screening)

June is Pride month across North America and the Rio Theatre is joining in the celebration with the groundbreaking, and first of its kind in contemporary Hollywood mainstream films, Ang Lee’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. The film is set in a fictitious yet picturesque location, Brokeback Mountain, and chronicles the lives of

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you…” Francis Ford Coppola‘s gorgeously goth, Oscar-winning adaptation of Bram Stoker‘s iconic novel stars Gary Oldman in the title role as a nocturnal immortal who leaves the captive Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) and Transylvania for London in search of Mina

Border

In Ali Abbasi‘s award-winning BORDER, nothing is quite as it seems. The story follows an unusual customs officer named Tina, a women who is well known for her extraordinary sense of smell – it’s almost as if she can sniff out the guilt on anyone hiding something. But when Vore,

Booksmart

Actress Olivia Wilde‘s feature directorial debut follows two academic superstars and best friends who, on the eve of their high school graduation, suddenly realize that they should have worked less and played more. Determined never to fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram