Movies
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The Sweet East
From acclaimed cinematographer-turned-director Sean Price Williams comes THE SWEET EAST, a picaresque journey through the U.S Eastern Seaboard undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates,
How To Have Sex
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals
Snatch
“Yes, London. You know: Fish, chips, cup ‘O Tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary F***Ing Poppins… London!“ The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 15 with British filmmaker Guy Ritchie‘s super stylish, wildly kinetic 2001 crime caper SNATCH. Illegal boxing promoter Turkish convinces gangster Brick Top
The Descent
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 8 (International Women’s Day!) with a modern masterpiece of British horror that also manages to pass the Bechdel Test: THE DESCENT. A year after a severe emotional trauma, Sarah goes to North Carolina to spend some time
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2018, Best Animated Film, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse). After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the
Tammy and the T-Rex
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 1 with a quirky screwball horror comedy from the 90s’s vault, the post-JURASSIC jam TAMMY AND THE T-REX. Directed by Stewart Raffill (MAC AND ME, THE ICE PIRATES), TAMMY AND THE T-REX is a love story as
Bound
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
Frankenhooker
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on February 9 with a screening of Frank Henenlotter’s (BASKET CASE, BRAIN DAMAGE) totally absurd (yet totally smart) 90s horror comedy FRANKENHOOKER. Given the recent success of Yorgos Lanthimos‘ not entirely dissimilar transmutation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” POOR THINGS,
The Settlers
Chile, beginning of the 20th century. A wealthy landowner hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean “mestizo,” an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant,
Hundreds of Beavers: A Northwoods Christmas!
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is a one of a kind indie gem! A charming mix of live action and computer animation (think Buster Keaton meets Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner), this wildly unusual slapstick epic follows a frostbitten battle between Jean Kayak and diabolical beavers – hundreds of them – who