Movies
Judy
Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger) arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has
National Theatre Live: Fleabag (Final Screening!)
See the hilarious one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning TV series FLEABAG, captured live for cinemas from London’s West End. Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (FLEABAG, KILLING EVE) and directed by Vicky Jones, “Fleabag” is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Dragnet Girl with Live Score by Coupler
Experience Japanese master filmmaker Yasujirô Ozu‘s thrilling 1933 silent gangster tale DRAGNET GIRL with an original score performed live by ambient/electric trio Coupler. Special thanks to our community partners, VIFF Live and the Vancouver Asian Film Festival for their support. Friday, November 22 Doors 7:00 pm | Show
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Brittany Forgler is a hilarious, friendly, hot mess of a New Yorker who always knows how to have a good time, but at 27, her late-night adventures and early-morning walks-of-shame are starting to catch up to her. When she stops by a Yelp-recommended doctor’s office in an attempt to score
The Peanut Butter Falcon
A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON tells the story of Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial. Magnificent, mercurial. Genius. The very embodiment of cool. The man with a sound so beautiful it could break your heart. The central theme of Miles Davis’s life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live
It Chapter Two
Evil resurfaces in Derry as director Andy Muschietti reunites the Losers Club in a return to where it all began with IT Chapter Two the conclusion to the highest-grossing horror film of all time. Twenty-seven years after the Losers Club defeated the supernatural, big-headed clown Pennywise, he has returned to
Re-Animator (1985)
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on May 24 with Stuart Gordon‘s 1985 sci-fi horror comedy, RE-ANIMATOR. H.P. Lovecraft and Lucio Fulci did not team up to make the most amazing gore-sex grotesquerie of 1985 — but thanks to RE-ANIMATOR, they didn’t have to. Director
Teton Gravity Research Presents Roadless
Teton Gravity Research is back at the Rio on Sunday, November 10th for the premiere for their newest feature length snowboard film, ROADLESS – featuring legends Jeremy Jones, Travis Rice and Bryan Iguchi on a foot-powered mission through some of the most remote
Blood N Guts Horror Film Competition 2019: Showcase
On October 11, 54 filmmakers set across Vancouver to shoot a 5-minute horror film in 48 hours. All of these films are world premieres for the Blood N Guts Horror Film Competition. Blood N Guts is the sister festival to the Run N Gun 48 Hour Film Competition.