Movies
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The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: Footloose (1984)
“You won’t get any dancing here, it’s illegal.” The Gentlemen Hecklers return to the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, August 14 to cut loose (and kick off their Sunday shoes) when they present the ultimate game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – the 1980s pop-culture classic
Blood Diner
Join us for a very special Friday Late Night Movie screening of director Jackie Kong‘s BLOOD DINER, presented in partnership with the Northwest Horror Show. BLOOD DINER is a classic, very fun (and very 80s) throwback to HG Lewis‘ ‘Bloodfeast’ about two brothers who operate a diner… That
Moonlight
Easily one of 2016’s most memorable and important films, director Barry Jenkins‘ luminous MOONLIGHT had been an audience and critical darling for months, and was recently honoured with three Oscars – including Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali, Best Adapted Screenplay, and (of course) Best Picture. A timeless coming-of-age story
Paterson
Jim Jarmusch lends his seamless eye to the majesty of the mundane in the melancholic comedy-drama PATERSON, which offers star Adam Driver (SILENCE, HBO’s GIRLS) a solid vehicle for this quiet, thoughtful character study of a bus driver with an uncanny knack for seeing the poetry of life in the
Lion
Best Supporting Actor Oscar-nominee Dev Patel (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, ‘The Newsroom’) helms LION, inspired by the true, touching, and ultimately uplifting story of an Australian man who finds his long-lost family in India – with the help of Google Earth. Nominated for a whopping six Oscars (including
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: The Running Man (1987)
The Gentlemen Hecklers return to the Rio Theatre on Thursday, March 16 with another fine feature from the Arnold Schwarzenegger canon, THE RUNNING MAN. Schwarzenegger is reunited with his PREDATOR costar Jesse Ventura in this adaptation of Stephen King‘s dystopian, sci-fi novel (set in an authoritarian USA in, ummm, 2017)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
“Beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” The late, great, John Hurt stars in one of the most talked (not to mention timely) about movies of 2017… 1984. First published in 1949, English author George Orwell’s chilling dystopian satire has again come to prominence in the ether (and atop bestseller lists)
The Shawshank Redemption (With Gil Bellows Q&A!)
“Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman turn in career-high performances as two men who forge a profound, lifelong bond while searching for humanity and moral decency against the backdrop of an
Ice Guardians: Gino Odjick Foundation Fundraiser
Newsweek’s “Top 10 Documentary for 2016”, ICE GUARDIANS explores one of the most controversial and provocative positions in the history of sport. ICE GUARDIANS journeys into the lives of those who perform what is undoubtedly the toughest job within the National Hockey League today: The Enforcer. Very few understand
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (35th Anniversary Screening!)
Kowabunga, dude! Released in 1990, the original live-action TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES adaptation of the cult comic book and the popular animated television show is a bona-fide cult-classic for pretty much anyone who became of age in the 80’s or 90’s. The film establishes the iconic origin story