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Pulp Fiction (30th Anniversary Screening!)
“Zed’s Dead.” Quentin Tarantino’s endlessly stylish, non-linear and infinitely quotable PULP FICTION is a modern masterpiece, featuring a killer soundtrack and an all-star cast whose characters have become practically ingrained into contemporary culture. I mean, who doesn’t love a Big Kahuna Burger or a $5 milkshake? The film
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (15th Anniversary Screening)
“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff.” Produced, directed, and co-written by Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, THE WORLD’S END) and based on the cult graphic novel series ‘Scott Pilgrim’ by Bryan Lee
Elf (Singalong!)
“I just like to smile! Smiling’s my favorite.” Make merry-merry with a special Buddy’s Singlaong screening of the adorably hilarious and utterly charming modern Christmas classic, ELF. Will Ferrell stars as one of Santa’s best helpers, a human named Buddy who heads home to New York City in
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner Tribute)
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Join us at the Rio Theatre as we pay tribute to the late, great filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner by dimming the lights and firing up the projector for a screening
All Things Must Pass: The Rise & Fall of Tower Records
Soundly constructed, briskly paced and, in the end, affectingly wistful. – Variety Filmmaker Colin Hanks spent seven years working on this nostalgic tale of the rise and fall of the once-behemoth Tower Records—which started in the back of a Sacramento family drugstore and became an international retail powerhouse before it
Bad Santa
“F**k me, Santa! F**k me, Santa! F**k me, Santa!” Make merry-merry with seriously fun Christmas Eve screening of two seriously hi-la-rious ho-ho-holiday classics – National Lampoon’s CHRISTMAS VACATION and BAD SANTA. Billy Bob Thornton has never been better than as the grumpy, alcoholic con-man mall Santa (who,
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: Twilight BREAKING DAWN (Part 2)
Join the Gentlemen Hecklers on Wednesday, December 9 as they return to the Rio Theatre to follow up their werewonderful skewering of BREAKING DAWN Part 1 by unleashing their inner-fangirils (again!) on the final installlment of the legendary Twilight franchise – BREAKING DAWN Part 2! (Because once was not enough.)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series kicks off October with one of our all-time favourites is the canon of classic midnighters: Tobe Hooper‘s iconic 1974 slasher masterpiece, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (gore-geously remastered in 2014!). Just as Alfred Hitchcock‘s PSYCHO was based on the life of deeply disturbed
Victoria
One girl. One city. One night. One take. | One of the absolute must-see films of 2015, Germany’s Silver Bear for Best Cinematography winner VICTORIA manages to tell its kinetic, edge-of-your-seat dramatic narrative in a most impressive way: A single take. Sunday, December 13 Doors 5:30 | Movie
Dangerous Men
“The most profoundly insane piece of personal filmmaking ever produced.” – Drew McWeeny, HitFix You’ve seen THE ROOM. You know TROLL 2. You witnessed MIAMI CONNECTION. And you’re still trying to understand WTF was going on in ROAR. Now, the latest film in the canon that