Movies
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Alberta Number One (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A!)
An eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada, to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They
Saints and Warriors (Director Q&A)
SAINTS AND WARRIORS is the epic and inspiring story of how basketball became not only an obsession, but a means for survival for the Haida people and their culture on the remote Indigenous Nation of Haida Gwaii on the northwest coast of Canada, near Alaska. Over the course of the
State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China
STATE ORGANS – VANCOUVER SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION by Taiwan Frogcast Taiwan Frogcast presents a special screening of the internationally acclaimed documentary STATE ORGANS, followed by a live panel discussion with director Raymond Zhang, producer Cindy Song, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Matas. Together, they will explore the
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob
Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’
Romanian writer-director Radu Jude is back with another work of cinematic absurdity – this time, it’s a Dracula film made in Transylvania. What does it contain? A vampire hunt. Zombies and Dracula crashing a strike. A science-fiction story about Vlad the Impaler coming back. An adaptation of the first Romanian vampires
Slither (Hosted by Todd Masters!)
Join us at the Rio Theatre on October 28 for a screening of James Gunn’s Vancouver-lensed 2006 horror comedy SLITHER – hosted by MastersFX founder, the legendary Todd Masters! Wheelsy is a small town where not much happens and everyone minds his own business. No one notices when evil slips
Jacob’s Ladder (2025 Restoration)
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), a Vietnam War veteran plagued with troubling hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks, struggles to maintain his sanity as his terrible past invades his waking life. As girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña) and chiropractor friend Louis (Danny Aiello) try to help him find balance, Jacob only descends further into
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
Almost 20 years into their fruitless quest to book their band a gig at a hallowed Toronto venue, co-creators Matt (writer-director Matt Johnson) and Jay (writer-composer Jay McCarrol) decide it’s time to pull out all the stops. Displaced in the past, these serial bumblers inadvertently wreak havoc on the timeline,
Final Destination: Bloodlines (With Director Q&A!)
The newest chapter in New Line Cinema’s bloody successful franchise takes audiences back to the very beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice – FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES. Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefani heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break