In the Heat of the Night

When a wealthy industrialist is found murdered in a small Mississippi town and an African-American man is picked up at the train station with a wallet full of cash, local Police Chief Bill Gillespie immediately assumes he has caught his culprit. He’s soon embarrassed to learn that the man he has arrested is Detective Virgil … Read more

First Cow

Writer-director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) once again trains her perceptive and patient eye on the Pacific Northwest, this time evoking an authentically hardscrabble early nineteenth century way of life. A taciturn loner and skilled cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he … Read more

1917

April 6th, 1917: As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers — Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake — receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must cross over into enemy territory to deliver a message that could potentially save 1,600 of their fellow comrades — … Read more

Black Panther

Writer-director Ryan Coogler‘s epic origin story BLACK PANTHER made box office history in 2018 as the first major Black superhero origin story in the famed Marvel universe, equally embraced by audiences and critics alike. Featuring outstanding performances by an all-star cast (including Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Daniel Kaluuya, Angela Bassett and more), the … Read more

TGR Presents: ACCOMPLICE

Ready for a new adventure? Teton Gravity Research (TGR) is returning to the Rio Theatre on Thursday, July 16 for the Vancouver premiere of their new mountain bike film ACCOMPLICE. This is the summer stoke we’ve all been waiting for! Even better? We’re doing THREE shows – at 5:45 pm, 7:45 pm, and 9:45 pm. … Read more

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

“Do… or do not. There is no try.” Listen up, all you… Stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf-herders of East Vancouver! To mark one of cinema’s most high holy of holidays – May (the) 4 – the Rio Theatre will be screening George Lucas‘ Original Trilogy STAR WARS films…. Back. To. Back. YES! A NEW HOPE, … Read more

Trolls World Tour

Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animation‘s 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what they’ve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different Troll tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted … Read more

Parasite

Master Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho (THE HOST, SNOWPIERCER) brought his work home to Korea with the cinematic masterpiece PARASITE, a pitch-black modern fairytale that proved itself a complete game-changer for movie-lovers around the world. It became the first Korean film to win the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or in 2019, and eventually won Oscars … Read more

Portrait of A Lady on Fire

Writer-director Céline Sciamma‘s mesmerizing PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is an entrancing, erotic historical romance told through the painterly lens of “the female gaze.” Set on a remote, isolated French island in the late 18th century, the story follows young painter Marianne, who is is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a … Read more