AMERICAN ANIMALS is the unbelievable but entirely true story of four young men who attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history. The film centers around two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky. Spencer (Barry Keoghan), is determined to become an artist but
The late director Sydney Pollack‘s behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin‘s best-selling album Amazing Grace finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot. “I felt wrung out at the end of this film. How incredible must it have been for
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a special presentation of cult sci-fi classic Zardoz, presented in partnership with our friends at Storm Crow Tavern on Commercial Drive and the brand-new Storm Crow Alehouse on Broadway. (What does this mean? Here’s what this means: Show your online receipt/ticket/proof
“This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing… It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.” Join us at the Rio Theatre as for the director’s cut of one of the 1980’s most acclaimed films; the lush, lavish, and endlessly
In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind’s true role in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments. By enclosing himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and taking hallucinogenic drugs, Jessup hopes to explore different
Maverick French filmmaker Julia Ducournau (RAW, TITANE) returns to the body-horror genre with her latest film ALPHA, which made its debut in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Set during the 80’s/90’s against the backdrop of a coastal French town, the dystopian drama follows 13 year-old protagonist Alpha (Mélissa
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” It’s all happening…! Writer-director Cameron Crowe‘s (SAY ANYTHING…, SINGLES) turned his own story as a juvenile rock critic who hit the road with some of the 70s biggest rock bands
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
In the late 80s and early 90s, the streets of downtown Manhattan were the site of a collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Narrated by Zoo York co-founder Eli Gesner with an original score by legendary hip-hop producer Large Professor (Nas, A Tribe Called Quest), ALL THE
The Rio Theatre’s Rio Grind Film Fest continues on Saturday, November 23 with a screening of the Canadian science-fiction thriller ALL THE LOST ONES, directed by Mackenzie Donaldson. The film is a post-apocalyptic thriller centred on the aftermath of a North American civil war brought on by the effects of