Movies
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Let’s do the Time Warp… Again! Making long weekend plans…? We’ve got you covered! Join us for one of the most notorious cult-movie experiences you can possibly have in a darkened theatre… THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! For over four decades, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW has been
The Road
Viggo Mortensen delivers a powerful performance in THE ROAD, a dystopian, post-apocalyptic survival film based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel of the same name. Set in a bleak, American wasteland of the future, what’s left of the USA is a grim, gray shadow of itself following a
The Rio Sports Bar Presents: RuPaul’s Drag Race Canada
The Rio Sports Bar is back in action on Thursday, November 18 and Thursday, December 16! Gather all your squirrelfriends to see who will sashay away, and who will be this week’s winner in Mama Ru’s legendary Canadian extravaganza, eh? Thursday, December 16 SEASON FINALE!
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Tragedy Girls
Finally… A killer body-horror comedy that passes the Bechdel test – HEATHERS meets MEAN GIRLS in an Instagram universe. It’s Vancouver-based (we’re claiming him, mmmkay?) writer-director Tyler MacIntrye‘s TRAGEDY GIRLS, it’s bloody good fun, it’s one of the breakout horror his of 2017, and it’s hitting the
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Top Knot Detective
In the early 1990’s, a little known Japanese Samurai/Detective Series was syndicated to public access TV in Australia and became a cult success. In Japan, it was titled “Ronin Suiri Tentai” (roughly translating to “Deductive Reasoning Ronin”), but soon came to be known in the West as TOP KNOT DETECTIVE.
The Rio Grind Film Festival: The Lodgers
Following its World Premiere at TIFF and its European Premiere as Sitges Film Festival‘s closing night film, The Rio Grind Film Festival is honoured to bring Brian O’Malley‘s (2015’s criminally under-seen LET US PREY) exquisite, sensual and chilling work of pure gothic horror, THE LODGERS, to a Vancouver audience on
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Beyond Skyline
When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the
The Rio Grind Film Festival Presents: Stegman is Dead
Meet Stegman. He’s dead. In this crime comedy, bizarre assassins must come together to unravel the puzzle of Stegman’s blackmail secret, and why he’s already dead on the set of his own porn film. Stegman’s secret is somewhere within the rooms of his expansive suburban seventies bungalow, and the
The Revenant
There is a reason Leonardo DiCaprio (finally!) nabbed himself an Oscar for his turn as a 19th century frontiersman fighting for survival in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s (BIRDMAN) epic THE REVENANT – because he deserved it. Inspired by the true story of a fur trader named Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) who fought
The Return of the Living Dead
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a Friday Late Night screening of 80s horror comedy classic THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, a (totally true!) story of two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse who accidentally release a deadly gas into the air – when the vapors cause