Movies
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival 2019
Details coming soon. www.vimff.org
The Wife
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Golden Globe winner Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable
Share International Canada Presents: The Awakening
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, January 20 for a free screening of THE AWAKENING (a lecture with Benjamin Creme.) Sunday, January 20 Doors 12:30 | Event 1:00 pm This is a free event. “If the information in this film is correct, we
The Vancouver District & Labour Council Presents: The Road Forward
THE ROAD FORWARD is a film about first nations activism in Canada. The screening is a fundraiser for Queen Alexandra’s Wishing Tree free store. The Wishing Tree provides food, toiletries, household items, clothing, transit passes, and more for families in need. Thursday, January 17 Movie 6:30 pm *Time
Vox Lux
In what the New York Times heralded as, “An Apocalyptic Star Is Born,” VOX LUX follows the rise of Celeste from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop super stardom. The film spans 18 years and traces important cultural moments through her eyes, starting in 1999 when as
Barbarella
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movies series continues on March 18 with a big ol’ cheesy slice of unadulterated 60’s camp, with “Queen of the Galaxy” Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim’s out-of-this-world sci-fi sex romp cult-classic, BARBARELLA. With Anita Pallenberg, John Phillip Law, Marcel Marceau. “BARBARELLA is
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: STAR TREK III The Search for Spock
Let The Gentlemen Hecklers provide you with their unique brand of live, hilarious commentary – for the best cheesy movies! Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha and special guest star KC Novak are Vancouver’s masters of movie riffing, making so-bad-they’re-good movies even better… By talking you through them. At the end of
Perfectly Petty Starring Dave D as Tom Petty
Join us at the Rio Theatre on for an evening of hits by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and prepare to be transported into the world of Tom Petty – one of the greatest songwriter/performers of our time. Performed by top tribute artist Dave D and his band Perfectly Petty,
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
In director Marielle Heller‘s CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, Melissa McCarthy (in a Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated performance) stars as Lee Israel, the best-selling celebrity biographer (and cat lover) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead,
Mirai
The latest entry from master storyteller Mamoru Hosoda (WOLF CHILDREN, SUMMER WARS) and Japan’s Studio Chizu is the sweet, unusually introspective coming-of age animé MIRAI, a daringly original story of love passed down through generations. When four-year-old Kun meets his new baby sister, his world is turned upside down. Named Mirai