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Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy
“This is what you get when you mess with us.” Can you believe that Radiohead’s seminal album OK COMPUTER is celebrating 20 years of alt-rock (whatever that is) greatness…? Neither can we! To note this musical milestone, join us at the Rio Theatre for a special screening of director Grant
RAD (40th Anniversary Screening)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a slice of something seriously 80’s, the oft-requested, always capitalized, cult-classic RAD. The 1986 BMX racing film is returning to theaters with a new 40th anniversary restoration. Bill Allen stars as a bicycle-motocrosser who tries to enter a corrupt promoter’s nationally televised cash-prize
Rabid (Directors in Attendance for Q&A!)
Vancouver’s own Twisted Twins – aka filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska – are headed to the Rio Theatre on Sunday, March 8, for a screening of their latest, RABID, inspired by David Cronenberg‘s seminal 1977 body-horror classic. Even better? They’re sticking around for a post-screening Q&A, and are
Queer
Daniel Craig has turned in one of 2024’s most celebrated performances in prolific Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, CHALLENGERS) languid period drama QUEER, adapted from William S. Burroughs‘ 1985 romantic novella of the same name. Set in the 1950’s, Craig (perhaps best-known as James Bond) stars
QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL (Live in 1981)
We. Will. Rock. You. Recorded at the Montreal Forum on November 24-25 1981, ten years to the date before lead singer Freddie Mercury died, QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL marked the first time a band had filmed an entire show in 35mm. The recently restored and remastered digital transfer showcases Queen in
Queen of the Ring
An extraordinary, true-life tale that follows Mildred Burke, the legendary professional wrestler and single mom who defied incredible odds to become the first million-dollar female athlete and longest reigning champion at a time when the sport was banned across most of America.With Emily Bett Rickards, Parker Posey, Josh Lucas, Walton
Queen – Rock Montreal
The only Queen concert ever filmed in its entirety, this 1981 Montreal Live Aid performance has been digitally restored and remixed. Featuring dynamic front man Freddie Mercury, the band puts on a high-octane show for a crowd of excited fans. Songs include “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions,”
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Everyone’s favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns! For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through
Push
Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster. The film follows
Purple Rain
Dearly beloved We are gathered here today To get through this thing called “life” Electric word, life It means forever and that’s a mighty long time But I’m here to tell you