One girl. One city. One night. One take. | One of the absolute must-see films of 2015, Germany’s Silver Bear for Best Cinematography winner VICTORIA manages to tell its kinetic, edge-of-your-seat dramatic narrative in a most impressive way: A single take. Sunday, December 13 Doors 5:30 | Movie 6:00 Tickets $10 in advance HERE/ $12 … Read more
“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on August 13 as wetip our collective hat and raise an icy beverage to one of the absolute icons of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock (on his birthday!), with a screening of what many consider to be … Read more
The dramatic thriller VERA is based on the true story of Vera Pesic, a spy in World War 2, who was also called “The Serbian Mata Hari.” In the labyrinth of spy games in the Balkans, from Vienna to Istanbul, Vera Pesic survives amongst Yugoslav, German and British spies with double and triple agendas, alone, … Read more
The Vancouver Badass Film Festival Presents THE HOLLOW CHILD *Director in attendance! Sunday, March 31 Doors 3:10 pm | Movie 3:30 pm *Please arrive on time! Advance tickets $10.50 HERE | $12.50 at the door VBAFF Day Pass $35 HERE *Must be 19+ w/ID for entry and bar service. Sorry, Rio Theatre Groupons and passes … Read more
The Vancouver Badass Film Festival Presents KNUCKLEBALL *Director in attendance! Left alone on an isolated farm, a 12-year-old boy must fight for his life when he becomes the target of a crazed psychopath. KNUCKLEBALL stars Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers, Scanners, Turbo Kid) and TURBO KID‘s Munro Chambers. “Helmer Michael Peterson effectively earns suspension of disbelief with stark … Read more
“Remember, remember, the fifth of November…” In 2006, Alan Moore‘s cult-classic and politically-minded, subversive graphic novel ‘V for Vendetta’ hit the big screen with an electrifying script courtesy of THE MATRIX‘s Lana and Lilly Wachowski and a memorable turn from a freshly-shorn Natalie Portman. It goes without saying that director James McTeigue’s highly-stylized, dystopian sci-fi thriller … Read more
Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide (Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o) feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy-winner Elisabeth … Read more
After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, PROMETHEUS) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will “upgrade” his body. The cure – an Artificial Intelligence implant called STEM – gives Grey physical abilities beyond anything experienced and … Read more
Rachel is a single mother whose bad day gets even worse when she beeps her horn at a fellow driver (Russell Crowe) during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. The initial case of road rage quickly escalates … Read more
Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who’s swimming in his building’s pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy. With Andrew Garfield, … Read more
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