Movies
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (10th Anniversary Screening!)
“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff.” Produced, directed, and co-written by Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, THE WORLD’S END) and based on the cult graphic novel series ‘Scott Pilgrim’ by Bryan Lee O’Malley, SCOTT
Scooby-Doo
“Throughout the ages, one hero has cowered above the rest…” ZOINKS! The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on May 28 with a screening of the 2002 cult-classic following the big-screen debut of a wacky exploits of a lovable, easily frightened Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, makes
School of Rock
“God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. We are your humble servants. Please give us the power to blow people’s minds with our high voltage rock. In your name we pray, Amen.” In director Richard Linklater‘s hilarious SCHOOL OF ROCK, a pitch-perfect Jack Black takes centre
Scary Movie
Here it comes kids, the first day of fall and one of the final days of the Rio Theatre’s SUMMER MOVIE BATTLE: 80’s vs. Y2K, and team Y2K’s final FRIDAY LATE NIGHT movie. Better put down a towel first because you’re about to <epic announcer voice> ‘Pee–Your–Pants’… from laughter at
Scarface
“Say hello to my lil’ friend.” Director Brian De Palma and star Al Pacino go full-tilt in Scarface, a violent, blood-soaked hyper-stylized gangster epic based on Howard Hughes‘ 1932 film of the same name. From Oliver Stone‘s infinitely quotable script to a few classic scenes that have since
Scala!!!
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
Say Anything…
“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
Saw
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
Saving Private Ryan
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
Saturday Night Fever
“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