Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on February 2 with a screening of Gordon Parks‘ iconic 1971 urban crime drama SHAFT. Featuring the late, great Richard Roundtree (who passed away in 2023) as the eponymous detective in a performance … Read more
Visionary Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan‘s latest work casts Amanda Seyfriend as earnest theatre director Jeanine, who has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera “Salome.” Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera … Read more
Writer/director John Waters offers an outrageous satire of suburban life–and the American fame industry for merchandizing mass murderers–with this hilarious black comedy about a Baltimore woman who’s the ideal wife and mother… Except for her habit of killing people who annoy her. It’s SERIAL MOM… On Mother’s Day! Happy housewife Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) has … Read more
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must … Read more
Assume the position. Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader smoulder as an unlikely couple whose workplace relationship unexpectedly blossoms into something… Beyond the professional. SECRETARY is an all-time Rio Theatre audience fan-favourite, and one of our most requested romances – a perfect fit for our Friday Late Night Movie series in February. Sexy, sweet, hilarious and shocking, … Read more
Assume the position. Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader smoulder as an unlikely couple whose workplace relationship unexpectedly blossoms into something… Beyond the professional. SECRETARY is an all-time Rio Theatre audience fan-favourite, and one of our most requested romances – a perfect fit for our Friday Late Night Movie series in February. Sexy, sweet, hilarious and shocking, … Read more
“You’re My Only Hope.” Vancouver’s favourite nerdlesque troupe, the galactic Geekenders, will be on hand as the official nerf-herders at the Rio cantina for a #SavetheRio secret screening fundraiser party unlike anything #EastVan’s Rebel Alliance has ever played host to before… Prepare yourself for an unadulterated, totally original screening event and party that will satisfy the … Read more
In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling in more than two tons of cinderblock. Far more than just a wild … Read more
“Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won’t deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner.” Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust — everyone has a sin. In director David Fincher‘s intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching psychological thriller SE7EN, “sin” takes centre stage – in one of cinema’s … Read more
“What’s in the box?” Featuring an all-star cast including Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Gwynneth Paltrow, and John C. McGinley, director David Fincher’s neo-noir psychological thriller SEVEN made a serious impression as one of the biggest films of 1995, the year it was released. The unusual pairing of Morgan Freeman (as a soon-to-be retiring … Read more
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