Movies
Genre: Thriller
John Wick
In a role that seems tailor-made just for him, Keanu Reeves dazzles in JOHN WICK, a stylishly supercharged, neo-noir action thriller that grew into its surprise cult-status thanks, in large part, to Reeves’ phenomenal performance as a hitman who comes out of retirement to exact some serious vengeance in a
John Carpenter’s ‘Assault on Precinct 13’
Considered by many to be one of the greatest and most underrated action films of the 1970s, John Carpenter‘s gritty action thriller ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (which he wrote, directed, scored and edited) has been given a new 4K restoration in 2023 from the original camera negative courtesy of
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou”
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, July 14 as we tip out hat to French cinema with a Bastille Day triple bill, featuring the late Jean-Luc Godard‘s “new wave” triumph PIERROT LE FOU, Matthieu Kassovitz‘ gritty and groundbreaking urban drama LA HAINE (2020 restoration),
JAWS (50th Anniversary Restoration)
“We’re gonna need a bigger screen.” Steven Spielberg‘s original summer blockbuster, JAWS, is still cause for maritime terror 50 years after its release in 1975. Based on Peter Benchley‘s novel of the same name, Spielberg‘s JAWS forever changed the cinematic landscape, setting a whole new bar for mainstream
Jackie Brown (25th Anniversary Screening)
“I sure hope you didn’t do anything stupid, Jackie.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, December 28 for a very special 25th Anniversary screening of what many people consider to be iconic writer-director Quentin Tarantino‘s most under-appreciated film, JACKIE BROWN. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1992 novel
Izolacija (Canadian Premiere)
Jovan, a young biologist, gets a well-paying job in a forest, but when he checks the cameras he discovers a man and as time goes by the night calls, strange sounds and isolation plunge him into paranoia. Ova filmska priča koja ostavlja bez daha, vodi nas u zabačenu naučnu stanicu,
It’s a Wonderful Knife (Filmmakers in Attendance!)
Filmmakers in attendance! Join us at the Rio Theatre as we deck the halls (with buckets of blood) for a very special screening of director Tyler MacIntyre‘s (TRAGEDY GIRLS) dark Christmas horror comedy IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE… Starring none other than the Rio Theatre! With a nod to some
It Was Just an Accident
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi‘s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT seems to mine much of its inspiration from his own life as a noted political dissident, with its plot centered on a former political prisoner who believes he has found his torturer. The film follows Vahed, an unassuming Azerbaijani mechanic and former
It Comes at Night
Imagine the end of the world. Now, imagine something worse. Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his incredible debut feature KRISHA with IT COMES AT NIGHT, a horror film following a man (Joel Edgerton) as he learns that the evil stalking his family home may be only a prelude to
Inglourious Basterds
“Now, that’s a bingo!” We felt the time was right to scalp some Nazis and speak the King’s, so we’re revisiting Quentin Tarantino‘s quasi-historical fantasy INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on our big screen on August 2. Set in a fantasy universe that can only ever really exist in the films of Tarantino,