LOVE, ACTUALLY: The best or worst Christmas movie of all time? Every year, Pop This! co-hosts Lisa Christiansen and Andrea Warner fight about the THE HOLIDAY vs. LOVE, ACTUALLY. For the fifth annual argument, we’re keeping the focus on LOVE, ACTUALLY and taking our fight to the Rio Theatre. With special guests comedian and author … Read more
Director Ruben Östlund‘s follow-up to 2014’s “avalanche comedy” FORCE MAJEURE, THE SQUARE, rivals its predecessor in its ambitious, challenging and utterly absurdist employ of dark humour as biting social commentary. Despite dividing critics and audiences at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it still went on win the coveted Palme d’Or prize from an enthusiastic jury … Read more
In 1994, the pre-internet-addled brains of devoted Trekkies everywhere collectively exploded when Gene Roddenberry‘s stellar creation transported its mythology into a unique, inter-generational space, boldly going where no franchise had gone before, when the original series’ fearless leader Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) shared screen time with Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in STAR … Read more
Following 2015’s breathtakingly original and Oscar-nominated romance THE LOBSTER, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (DOGTOOTH) and actor Colin Farrell re-team for another unusual offering, with the psychological revenge- thriller THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER. Farrell again stars, this time as a renowned cardiovascular surgeon presiding over a spotless household with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole … Read more
You asked for it Rio Theatre movie goers and we’re bringing it to you: Double Bill: BLADE RUNNER: The Final Cut & BLADE RUNNER 2049. It’s double the blades, double the running at special Double Bill pricing happening Sunday, May 18th! In 2017, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve unleashed one of the most anticipated sequels of all time, BLADE … Read more
Meet Stegman. He’s dead. In this crime comedy, bizarre assassins must come together to unravel the puzzle of Stegman’s blackmail secret, and why he’s already dead on the set of his own porn film. Stegman’s secret is somewhere within the rooms of his expansive suburban seventies bungalow, and the cops are already circling. Gus and … Read more
Following its World Premiere at TIFF and its European Premiere as Sitges Film Festival‘s closing night film, The Rio Grind Film Festival is honoured to bring Brian O’Malley‘s (2015’s criminally under-seen LET US PREY) exquisite, sensual and chilling work of pure gothic horror, THE LODGERS, to a Vancouver audience on Sunday, November 19. Set in … Read more
Following its World Premiere at TIFF and its European Premiere as Sitges Film Festival‘s closing night film, director Brian O’Malley‘s (2015’s criminally under-seen LET US PREY) exquisite, sensual and chilling work of pure gothic horror, THE LODGERS, is coming to the Rio Theatre on Friday, February 23 as part of the Dread Central Presents screening … Read more
This feature-length painted animation — the first film of its kind (and a 2018 Best Animated Feature Academy Award nominee) — explores the life and unusual death of celebrated painter Vincent Van Gogh via depictions of his artworks, bringing the paintings to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of … Read more
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America’s most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Ross Lynch, in a breakout performance) is an awkward teenager in suburban America, struggling to … Read more
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