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Zodiac

The American Genre Film Archive‘s new remaster of director Tom Hanson‘s exploitative cinematic oddity THE ZODIAC KILLER, is getting some big screen time at the Rio Theatre as part of a double bill with David Fincher‘s cult-classic ZODIAC (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) on Sunday, August 13. Tom Hanson – who … Read more

You Were Never Really Here

When an unfinished version of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay‘s (WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN) neo-noirish adaptation of writer Jonathan Ames‘ suspenseful crime thriller YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017, it netted awards for both Best Screenplay (Ramsay) and Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix). In another dark, powerful performance, … Read more

Wildlike

Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn … Read more

Wild Tales

The sexy, funny Argentinian WILD TALES is headed to the Rio for a single screening Monday, April 27 at 9:00 pm. This ensemble piece about on six different people in six different stories was one of 2014’s most celebrated international features – nominated for a Palmes d’or at Cannes and an Academy Award nominee for … Read more

Wild at Heart

“I guess I started smoking when I was about… four. My momma was already dead then from lung cancer.” David Lynch‘s iconic WILD AT HEART features one of our favourite onscreen cinematic couples, notably our man Nicolas Cage (in fine form; sporting an iconic, snakeskin jacket that represents a symbol of individuality, and a belief … Read more

Widows

From Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen (12 YEARS A SLAVE) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (GONE GIRL) comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. “Widows” is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. … Read more

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“I’ve written a letter to Daddy…” Beyond the actual onscreen chemistry (and legendary off screen fireworks) between icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Robert Aldrich‘s WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? lies the film itself – a bona fide, highly creepy-campy, edge-of-your-set thriller about a former child star who torments her paraplegic sister in … Read more

Westworld

Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong…go wrong…go wrong…. In the wake of the enormous success of the TV series ‘Westworld,’ we have been absolutely inundated with requests to screen the original sci-fi classic upon which it is based – and we’re doing just that on Wednesday, January 4! Yul Brenner, James Brolin and … Read more

Watcher

As a serial killer stalks the city, a young actress (Maika Monroe, who made waves as an indie arthouse horror “It Girl” in movies like IT FOLLOWS and THE GUEST) who just moved to town with her boyfriend notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street in this terrifying thriller. “A stunning gaslighting … Read more

Virupaksha (Final Screening!)

Mysterious deaths occur in a village due to an unknown person’s occult practice. The whole town is scared of these killings. Will they find the person who causes the deaths? ,problems faced during the process is the rest of the story. Saturday, May 6 Final Screening! Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:20 pm *SHARP! Please … Read more

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