Movies
Genre: Thriller
Black Swan (15th Anniversary Restoration)
I just want to be perfect. A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman (who took home a much deserved Best Actress Oscar) as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with
Operation Avalanche
“If you believe, they put a man on the moon… “ In 1967, during the height of the Cold War, two young CIA agents (including writer-director Matt Johnson and Owen Williams) go undercover at NASA to investigate a possible Russian mole. In disguise as documentary filmmakers, they tap phones and
I Am Not a Serial Killer
Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE) is not a serial killer-but he has all the makings of one. Keeping his homicidal tendencies and morbid obsessions with death and murder in check is a constant struggle that only gets harder when a real serial killer begins
The Girl with All the Gifts
Adapted from on the acclaimed novel by M.R.Carey (who also wrote the screenplay), THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS has been embraced by movie lovers at film fests and beyond for being the must-see smart, suspenseful, sensitive and totally action-packed zombie feature of 2017. In a dystopian near future, humanity
Headshot
Newly minted action icon Iko Uwais (THE RAID 1 & 2) stars in this fast and furious action thriller as an amnesiac whose mysterious past as a killing machine rears its head when he takes on the minions of a powerful drug kingpin. Fans of fast-paced, intense martial arts action
The Greasy Strangler
“Hootie tootie, disco cutie.” It goes without saying that Jim Hoskin‘s debut feature The Greasy Strangler takes the award for Most WTF Movie of 2016. This is, unquestionably, a film that needs to be experienced (preferably on the big screen, and with a very open-minded, late night kind of movie
Sadako vs. Kayako
The Rio Theatre‘s Rio Grind Film Festival is kicking things off on Friday, November 4 with the BC Premiere of director Kōji Shiraishi‘s supernatural thriller – a match made in horror movie franchise heaven – SADAKO VS. KAYAKO. It’s THE RING vs. THE GRUDGE in the
Tunnel (“Teo-Neol”)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a one-night-only screening of the South Korean disaster filmof the year, Kim Seong-hun’s TUNNEL (“Teo-neol”). This tense yet slyly satirical action thriller follows Jung-soo (Ha Jung-woo, who can next be seen in Park Chan-wook‘s highly anticipated THE HANDMAIDEN) a devoted husband, father and
Train to Busan
Get on board to stay alive. TRAIN TO BUSAN is a harrowing South Korean zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has
Rosemary’s Baby
Adapted from Ira Levin‘s bestselling novel Rosemary’s Baby, director Roman Polanski‘s 1968 adaptation elevated what could have been a B-movie into what remains an indisputable classic within the pantheon of American horror. In what is, ostensibly, a cautionary tale about pregnancy, Mia Farrow stars as the psychologically terrorized title character