AMORES PERROS (“Love’s a Bitch”) is Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s blisteringly bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, AMORES PERROS explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations instigated by … Read more
The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of grad school … Read more
Dead Lover is the story of a lonely Gravedigger who reeks so strongly of corpses that she can’t attract a lover. She concocts fragrant perfumes in her workshop, but nothing can save her romantic prospects from her ghastly odor… Until one day, when Gravedigger meets Lover, an aristocratic dandy in town for his sister’s funeral. … Read more
“Oh, hai Mark!” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, May 29 for a screening of THE DISASTER ARTIST, with a special introduction from writer, actor, and director James Franco. James wrote, directed, and starred in the Golden Globe-winning adaptation of Greg Sestero‘s best-selling memoir that recounted his wild experience making Tommy Wiseau‘s magnum opus … Read more
Best friends Tracy and Martina have never been farther than Nova Scotia, but when they hear promises of big opportunities “out west,” the pair pack their clothes into garbage bags and hop a flight to Alberta. What starts as a dream trip quickly unravels: internal tensions, surprise expenses, and cousins who are nowhere to be … Read more
Twentysomething Anna (Alexandra McVicker, OCTOBER CROW) finally leaves her small, transphobic hometown for good and quickly begins dating goth tattoo artist Gen (Avalon Fast, CASTRATION MOVIE) after the two discover they share supernatural powers. But before Anna can call up the U-Haul, Gen inadvertently summons a demon through the sick neck tattoo she gives sensitive guitarist … Read more
Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he’s convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence. With Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Avan Jogia. Director Oscar Boyson (UNCUT GEMS, GOOD TIME) will be joining us at the Rio Theatre for … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, June 5 for Indian Summer Festival’s Box Office Launch Party! This special evening will include a one-time only screening of Ramesh Sippy‘s iconic, genre-defining cult-classic action blockbuster SHOLAY (1975), starring Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra. The evening will kick off with a programming overview of the Indian Summer … Read more
From director Taratoa Stappard, and starring Ariāna Osborne and Toby Stephens comes the year’s most visually stunning Gothic Horror. Far from home and haunted by visions, a Māori woman uncovers gruesome secrets inside an English manor. A bold, unsettling gothic tale of identity, memory, and colonial reckoning. With Umi Myers, Erroll Shand, Jordan Moone. 1859, … Read more
I LIKE MOVIES director Chandler Levack’s latest feature MILE END KICKS is a bright, romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira (HBO’s ‘Euphoria’) as Grace, a young music critic who moves to Montreal to figure out life and love. With Devon Bostick, Jay Baruchel, and Isaiah Lehtinen. “Not everyone will relate to being a critic navigating the … Read more
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