Nicolas Cage stars as… Nick Cage in the action-comedy THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT. Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal). Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA … Read more
From visionary director Robert Eggers (THE VVITCH, THE LIGHTHOUSE) comes THE NORTHMAN, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking named Prince Amleth. He is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who then kidnaps the boy’s mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking … Read more
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES), and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. With … Read more
Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature film PLEASURE is a journey into the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). The film follows the young and ambitious woman, who leaves her small town in Sweden and heads to LA with the aim of becoming the world’s next big porn star. Strong, … Read more
It’s Craaazy! The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on October 20 with a dose of dark and goofy fun, with the 1988 cult-classic KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. This truly one-of-a-kind alien-invasion sci-fi follows blood-drinking intergalactic clowns hell bent on harvesting a small, sleepy town of its plasma. With Grant Cramer, Suzanne … Read more
Yes, we’re as excited as you are for the third installment of Ti West‘s bloody amazing franchise, MAXXINE, hitting movie screens on Friday, July 5! So yes, of course, we’re going to revisit both X (2022), and its prequel PEARL (2022), with a double bill screening on Friday, June 28! In 2022, filmmaker Ti West … Read more
A woman in trouble. David Lynch‘s sorely under-seen, surreal psychological thriller INLAND EMPIRE is pretty impossible to describe… It’s Lynch. It’s Laura Dern. (For fans of the auteur, that may be all they need to know!) Released in 2006, this was Lynch’s first digitally shot film, and it ripe for rediscovery thanks to this 2022 … Read more
It’s Friday, (May) the 13th… And Jason Voorhees lives! The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on May 13 with the final film in the iconic FRIDAY THE 13th movie franchise, the 2001 installment JASON X. (We’ve been plugging in other films from the series, in chronological order, for some time now!) Jim … Read more
A charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations. Structured around a video-recorded confession, in Patricia Rozema’s fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle’s paintings, but as Polly … Read more
FREAKSCENE: THE STORY OF DINOSAUR JR. is a homage of one of the most influential bands on the American East Coast, which inspired the rock scene — including Nirvana and Sonic Youth — in the 1990s. Their style and unmistakable sound, later referred as “grunge”, laid the foundation for the entire “Slacker” culture of Generation … Read more
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