We’re tipping our hat to comedian Neal Brennan (who is performing two live shows at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, August 16) with a Friday Late Night Movie screening of the 1998 stoner classic HALF-BAKED, which he co-wrote with the film’s star, Dave Chappelle. When a member of their crew gets arrested for killing a … Read more
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (currently nominated for a Best Documentary Academy Award) allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South – trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming … Read more
“I’m a bad, bad girl who needs to be punished.” In honour of Ricki Lake‘s appearance at the Rio Theatre to promote her excellent new documentary WEED THE PEOPLE, we felt like we absolutely had to screen one of the best loved (if not best known) films from one of our most frequently requested directors, … Read more
HAIR OF THE BEAR, which premiered at the Windsor International Film Festival, sees Malia Baker (‘Babysitter’s Club’, ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’, DESCENDENTS 4) play Tori, an anxious 16-year-old girl who is self-harming and refusing to go to school. In response, her mother takes her out of her social media-centered life to stay with … Read more
Lights. Camera. Abduction! Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest colourful caper, HAIL, CAESAR!, is a totally entertaining love letter to Hollywood’s post-war Golden era that follows a single day in the life of studio fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), tasked wiith cleaning up and solving problems for all the industry’s heavyweights. Things get dicey when studio … Read more
Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, HAIL SATAN? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (NUTS!, OUR NIXON). When media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple organize a series of public actions designed to advocate for religious freedom and … Read more
In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists. And yet, in the insightful interviews captured here, he retains a remarkably soft-spoken manner and a charming humility that belies what an … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 11 with the 1995-era Angelina Jolie (pre-Brad Pitt, pre-Billy Bob Thornton) vehicle HACKERS, a www.suspense-thriller-crime-drama-comedy.com that follows a bunch of 25 year-old high school students (including Jolie’s ex Johnny Lee Miller and Matthew Lillard) as they jack into the internet and fight “The Man” … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 9 with a truly Olympic-level hit of American cheese – GYMKATA. Real-life American gymnast Kurt Thomas is perfectly cast as an American gymnast who travels to the suspiciously foreign-sounding land of “Parmistan” to compete in a certain deadly game that has not been won … Read more
Get loaded! Daniel Radcliffe continues exploring the depths of the unexpectedly weird and wonderful in writer-director Jason Lei Howden‘s (DEATHGASM) latest, GUNS AKIMBO. This high-energy, super stylish genre trip is getting the big screen treatment at the Rio Theatre – for one night only! – as part of our Friday Late Night Movie series on … Read more
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