Spaceballs

“I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.” Join us at the Rio for our Friday Night Late Night Movie Night: Aug 28th Tickets $6 advance / $8 door Advance tickets available at www.riotheatretickets.ca *Must be 19+ with ID for entry and bar service. **Groupons and passes OK. Please redeem at the door. Doors 11:30pm … Read more

Space Jam

Remember that time that Michael Jordan helped Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, and a bunch of your other favourite Loony Toons play a basketball game against aliens (and Danny DeVito) in the name of personal freedom? Of course you do! Because it’s SPACE JAM, it’s awesome, and it’s our Friday Late Night Movie on June 1. … Read more

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

What would Brian Boitano do? The creators of SOUTH PARK (Matt Stone, Trey Parker) scored a surprising hat-trick with the feature-length version of their hugely popular animated TV series: It was a box office hit, the critics loved it, and they scored much-deserved Best Original Song Oscar nod for ‘Blame Canada.’ The film also features … Read more

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when … Read more

Souleymane’s Story

Racing through the streets of Paris on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane (Abou Sangare, in a breakthrough performance) is struggling to stay afloat as an undocumented gig worker, delivering food to middle class Parisians using a “borrowed” account, for which he pays a percentage of his hard-earned wages. In two days, he has to report … Read more

Soul’s Road (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)

Shot in Alberta and starring Canadian country star Dallas Smith, filmmaker Joel Stewart‘s SOUL‘S ROAD is a riveting tale of self-discovery and redemption, promising audiences great music and heartwarming performances. After ruining his solo career and taking an extended break from music, the infamous Ronan Garrett returns to his hometown without much of a plan … Read more

Sorry to Bother You

In 2018, The Coup‘s lead vocalist Boots Riley turned his talents towards filmmaking with his breakout feature debut,  the strange, surreal, hilarious anti-capitalist satire SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. The film’s success (especially at the Rio – where it remains one of our biggest films ever) heightened his status an important contemporary storyteller and served as … Read more

Song to Song

Legendary director Terrence Malick‘s latest feature SONG TO SONG features a star-studded cast (including Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, and Rooney Mara) in a modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene. Dreamy and languid, the film follows two entangled couples–struggling songwriters Faye (Mara) and BV (Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Fassbender) … Read more