Secret Screening: A #SavetheRio Fundraiser

“You’re My Only Hope.” Vancouver’s favourite nerdlesque troupe, the galactic Geekenders, will be on hand as the official nerf-herders at the Rio cantina for a #SavetheRio secret screening fundraiser party unlike anything #EastVan’s Rebel Alliance has ever played host to before… Prepare yourself for an unadulterated, totally original screening event and party that will satisfy the … Read more

The Breadwinner

From Executive Producer Angelina Jolie and the team behind such animated treasures as THE SECRET OF KELLS and SONG OF THE SEA comes one of this year’s Oscar picks (nominee, Best Animated Feature)  THE BREADWINNER, based on Deborah Ellis’ best-selling novel about a headstrong young Afghani girl. Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives under … Read more

A Fantastic Woman

Director Sebastián Lelio accomplished two historic accomplishments this past Oscar night: He brought home Chile’s first taste of gold with the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and provided the astounding Daniela Vega (in a performance of a lifetime) to become the first transgender artist to star as the lead in an Oscar-winning film. … Read more

Call Me by Your Name

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. Nominated for four Oscars – including Best Picture and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, scribe James Ivory took home the little man for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of 2017’s best, CALL … Read more

The Gentlemen Hecklers with JFL Film Fest present: Twilight

Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival presents: The Gentlemen Hecklers at The Rio Theatre Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Doors 9pm/ Show 9:30pm.  Tickets $12/ $14 at the door Tickets are on-sale now by clicking HERE!  +19 only for admission. No Passes or Groupons accepted for this show, sorry.  _ Come see folks who wrote jokes … Read more

In the Fade

Set in the German-Turkish community in Hamburg, grief-stricken Katja (Diane Kruger, took home the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in what many are calling, “the performance of a lifetime”) takes revenge for her family after her life falls apart when two neo-Nazis kill her husband and 6-year-old in a brutal bomb explosion. … Read more

Cagefest 2020: Raising Arizona

“Edwina’s insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.” Cagefest – our (unofficial) Nicolas Cage Film Fest (aka, NIFF), a solid 5 days’ worth of our fave performances from one of our all-time favourite contemporary actors – continues on Friday, October 9, with an encore screening of his game-changing performance in … Read more

Mom and Dad

A strange disorder suddenly causes parents to violently turn against their own children, forcing a suburban teen (Anne Winters) and her younger brother (Zackary Arthur) to evade the clutches of their now-deranged mom (Selma Blair) and dad (Nicolas Cage). However, their situation gets even more complicated when their grandparents (Lance Henriksen and Marilyn Dodds Frank) … Read more

Titanic

James Cameron’s “Titanic” is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic; the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era — the “ship of dreams” — which ultimately carried … Read more