Movies
Language: English
The Quiet Girl
In this Oscar-nominated Irish drama, set in rural Ireland in the early 80s, a nine-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family goes to live with distant relatives for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms
Showing Up
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt continues her pretty incredible cinematic track record with frequent collaborator / muse, actress Michelle Williams, with their latest effort, SHOWING UP (the pair worked together on indie staples including FIRST COW, WENDY AND LUCY, and MEEK’S CUTOFF). In this vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art and
Spring Breakers
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 20 with Harmony Korine‘s SPRING BREAKERS. Four frustrated college girlfriends (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine) plot to fund their best spring break ever by burglarizing a fast-food shack. But that’s only the beginning. During a
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi
“Together again, huh?” Listen up, all you… Stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf-herders of East Vancouver! To mark one of cinema’s most high holy of holidays – May (the) 4 – the Rio Theatre will be screening George Lucas‘ Original Trilogy STAR WARS films…. Back. To. Back. YES! A
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
“That’s no moon. It’s a space station.” The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on May 3 with a viewing of George Lucas’ iconic 1977 film, STAR WARS. Luke Skywalker begins a journey
Cocaine Bear
Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount
Dosed: The Trip of a Lifetime (With Book Signing and Q&A by Dr. Gabor Maté & Sound Healing by Theda Phoenix)
Dosed: The Trip of a Lifetime Book Signing and Q&A by Dr. Gabor Maté + Sound Healing by Theda Phoenix Join us at the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, May 10 for a very special screening of the documentary DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime, which includes Dr. Gabor Maté
A Life on the Farm
A LIFE ON THE FARM celebrates the odd life of an eccentric farmer in rural England named Charles Carson whose bizarre home movie has become a cult phenomenon around the world. Carson’s life and work are remembered by those who knew him best,
Enys Men
Shot on 16mm, ENYS MEN is a mind-bending Cornish folk horror set in 1973 that unfolds on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast. A wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower take a dark turn into the strange and metaphysical, forcing both her and viewers to question what
Women Talking
Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, WOMEN TALKING follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men. Canadian writer-director Sarah Polley took home the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay