FREAKS is screening as part of a Friday Late Night Movie double feature alongside TETSUO: THE IRON MAN! See one or both for one sweet price! FREAKS (1932) “One of us, one of us.” Real sideshow performers star in Tod Browning‘s infamous cult classic, a grotesque revenge drama set against a circus backdrop. When trapeze … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a #SavetheRio fundraiser event that is gonna revel in and revisit one of the best single-season TV shows to ever hit the airwaves: FREAKS AND GEEKS. Premiering in 1999, the now iconic 80s coming-of-age high school comedy only ever aired 12 of its original 18 episodes, yet its … Read more
Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein‘s FREAKS portrays the story of 7-year-old Chloe, (Lexy Kolker), who lives in both fear under her father’s (Emile Hirsch) protective and paranoid control, and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals” create a constant threat – or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger (Bruce Dern) offers her a glimpse of … Read more
The legendary indie Canadian production company collective Astron-6 made waves across this country (and beyond) thanks to its impressive roster of retro, 80s-centric titles that include fan-favourites like MANBORG, FATHER’S DAY, and THE EDITOR. Though the collective is no more, founding member Steven Kostanski has continued making films that evoke the practical FX-heavy nostalgia of … Read more
“It’s alive….!” The Rio Theatre‘s series of Halloween favourites continues this month as we venture ever deeper and darker into classic “creature features” of yore with a screening of James Whale‘s stylish, bold, and nuanced FRANKENSTEIN on Saturday, October 25. This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) as he … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on February 9 with a screening of Frank Henenlotter’s (BASKET CASE, BRAIN DAMAGE) totally absurd (yet totally smart) 90s horror comedy FRANKENHOOKER. Given the recent success of Yorgos Lanthimos‘ not entirely dissimilar transmutation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” POOR THINGS, the time feels right to revisit this … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre as we dim the lights, raise a glass, and tip our collective cinematic hats to one of the all-time great actors of his generation, Gene Hackman, with a screening of one of his most indelible performances in Francis Ford Coppola‘s THE CONVERSATION. In 2022, Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece of societal … Read more
“Stay gold, Ponyboy.” The Rio Theatre’s SUMMER MOVIE BATTLE: 80’S vs. Y2K finally gets going for Team 80’s, and they’re coming in strong with a story and film that’s a part of every Gen X’ers DNA, THE OUTSIDERS. In 1983, director Francis Ford Coppola struck a powerful chord with his adaptation of S.E. Hinton‘s classic … Read more
Mixing documentary and fictionalized re-enactment, FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN takes on the life and career of the mythic, controversial automaker, telling a quintessentially American story of ambition and greed – from his meteoric rise at General Motors Co. to his obsessive quest to build the world’s best sports car, to his shocking fall from grace on … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues with its final entry for 2023, the hilarious 1995 ensemble anthology cult-comedy FOUR ROOMS on December 29. Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Bruce Willis co-star in this uncommon comedy that features four stories by four directors. Working New Year’s Eve at a hotel in Hollywood, Calif., the new … Read more
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