While taking its cues and its verbal style from the novels of Dashiell Hammett, director Rian Johnson‘s debut feature BRICK also honors the rich cinematic tradition of the hard-boiled noir mystery by wittily and bracingly immersing the trope in fresh territory – a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school. There, student Brendan Frye’s piercing … Read more
“They’re all gonna laugh at you!” The Rio Theatre’s annual deep-dive into Halloween movie goodness continues on Monday, October 27 a very special screening of Brian de Palma’s CARRIE. Even better? This screening will be hosted by filmmaker Mike Flanagan (DOCTOR SLEEP, THE LIFE OF CHUCK, Netflix’s “Midnight Mass”), who is bringing along some very special … Read more
“It’s all life until you’re dead.” 25 years after its initial release, Kurt Vonnegut’s biting portrayal of America’s mad chaos, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS returns in a restored 4K version. Directed by the brilliant Alan Rudolph and starring Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, and Albert Finney, this zany and incisive film has been overlooked for far too … Read more
After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new world record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while live-streaming every minute of her mythic quest. Drawing from an archive of more than 3,000 hours of Narcissa’s … Read more
In the sci-fi, dystopian fantasy masterpiece BRAZIL, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming every-man who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antit-otalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, … Read more
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you…” Francis Ford Coppola‘s gorgeously goth, Oscar-winning adaptation of Bram Stoker‘s iconic novel stars Gary Oldman in the title role as a nocturnal immortal who leaves the captive Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker — the spitting image of Dracula’s … Read more
“Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, May 16 as we raise a glass and toast the late, great writer-director John Singleton with a screening of what is undoubtedly his most well-known and revered work, BOYZ N THE … Read more
From writer-director Julian Glandner (creator of the cult video game “Art Sqool”) comes BOYS GO TO JUPITER, a dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age musical about a gig worker who encounters a creature from another world. It’s the day after Christmas in suburban Florida and Billy 5000 and his friends pass the seemingly endless days by slacking, shoplifting, … Read more
Bill Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy, the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, Boy trains with a mysterious shaman … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on February 16 with the Wachowski’s brilliant sophomore feature, the wildly sexy and stylish sapphic neo-noir crime thriller BOUND. Released in 1996, this notoriously titillating “rob the mob” slow burn made waves by pushing modern cinematic boundaries; its subversive narrative coupled with two knockout performances from … Read more
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