Joins us at the Rio Theatre for one of our favourite kind of documentaries – the ones about movie theatres – SCALA!!! (Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits.) In Britain’s post-punk Thatcher years, the infamous and legendary Scala … Read more
“She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.” John Cusack’s iconic performance as the infinitely lovable boombox-toting kickboxer Lloyd Dobler, who decides to woo school valedicatorian Diane Court (“a brain trapped in the body of a game show hostess”) in director Cameron Crowe’s SAY ANYTHING…, is, … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on June 17 with the first installment in the massive horror franchise that is SAW. Photographer Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) and oncologist Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) regain consciousness while chained to pipes at either end of a filthy bathroom. As the two men realize they’ve been … Read more
Join us on Thursday, November 11 – Remembrance Day – for a daytime screening of Steven Spielberg‘s epic World War Two film, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. As much as Remembrance Day is centred upon the Armistice achieved on the Western Front on November 11, 1918, when it comes to our audiences’ requests for a film to … Read more
“You should be dancing. Yeah.” Tony Manero (John Travolta) doesn’t have much going for him during the weekdays. He still lives at home and works as a paint store clerk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. But he lives for the weekends, when he and his friends go to the local disco and dance the night … Read more
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Directed by Jason Reitman (JUNO, UP IN THE AIR), written by Gil Kenan and Reitman and told in real time, SATURDAY NIGHT is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes … Read more
SATANIC HISPANICS is an anthology of five short films from some of the leading Latin filmmakers in the horror genre, spotlighting Hispanic talent both in front and behind the camera. When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as “The Traveler,” and … Read more
SATAN WANTS YOU is a feature documentary about the shocking story of how a young Canadian woman and her psychiatrist helped ignite the global Satanic Panic conspiracy with their bestselling memoir, “Michelle Remembers.” Supported by the Catholic Church, the bestselling book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle’s childhood abduction by baby-stealing Satanists. Amplified by … Read more
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and … Read more
Fifteen years after EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN unlocked moviegoers’ collective third-eye, legendary provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky made his late-’80s comeback with the SANTA SANGRE, a film whose staggering odyssey of ecstasy, anguish, belief, blasphemy, beauty and madness enraptures both Jodo newbies and dedicated fans alike. Fully restored to an inky sheen, this evocative tale … Read more
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