Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh. Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem – … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for screenings of a film that has earned its place in film history, Jean-Luc Godard‘s seminal French New Wave classic BREATHLESS, which has been beautifully restored for its 60th Anniversary. Adapted from an original treatment from cineaste auteur Francois Truffaut Godard directed the film from his own original screenplay. … Read more
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his … Read more
Due to technical difficulties, Sunday’s screening of BLOODY ORANGES is canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. – Rio Theatre Management. The Rio Theatre‘s Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Sunday, November 28 with a screening of French director Jean-Christophe Meurisse‘s dark, deeply satirical, and highly provocative BLOODY ORANGES, which has previously screened this year at … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Rio Grind Film Festival concludes on Sunday, November 28 with a screening of a slice of something seriously 80’s, the oft-requested, always capitalized, cult-classic RAD. In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the 1986 BMX racing film has returned to theaters with a new 35th anniversary restoration. Bill Allen stars as a bicycle-motocrosser … Read more
The Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with a 40th Anniversary screening of director Joe Dante‘s “biting’ satire on werewolf movies, THE HOWLING. Dee Wallace (E.T.) stars as Karen White, a LA news anchor with a serial killer for a stalker, leads the man into a trap where the police are able … Read more
The Rio Grind Film Festival‘s Rio Grind Film Festival presents an encore showing of prolific Oklahoma writer-director Mickey Reece’s latest, AGNES, which has also screened at the New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in Austin. If you’re not familiar with the work of this emerging, “outsider” filmmaker, Reece has been compared to Steven … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with writer-director Christopher Donaldson‘s survivor-horror film DITCHED. Shot in Alberta, this love letter to gory, B-movie horror has been making its way across the Canadian festival circuit, with screenings at the Edmonton International Film Festival and Toronto After Dark. Filmmakers in attendance for … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s annual Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with French filmmaker Bernard Mandico‘s AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE), following screenings at festivals around the world including in the fabled Midnight Madness lineup at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno (winner, FIPRESCI Prize), Sitges Fantastic Film Fest, (winner, Best Film) and … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s annual Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Friday, November 26 with Brazilian filmmaker Renata Pinheiro’s sci-fi thriller KING CAR, which has been a hit at festivals around the world including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. This unique and genre-bending vision follows … Read more
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