Movies
The Lord of the Rings (40th Anniversary Screening!)
We’re finishing off our Friday Late Night Movie series of 2018 with one of our all-time most requested titles – with a 40th Anniversary screening of Ralph Bakshi‘s animated epic, THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi‘s (FRITZ THE CAT) literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s classic fantasy trilogy,
Free Solo
From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film‘s documentary FREE SOLO (which just took home an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary!), a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait
Home Alone
“Keep the change, ya filthy animal!” Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin’s house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend
Dial Code Santa Claus (aka ‘Deadly Games’)
Before HOME ALONE, there was DIAL CODE SANTA CLAUS… Previously only available via VHS bootlegs — and a huge audience smash at Fantastic Fest 2018 — DIAL CODE SANTA CLAUS (aka DEADLY GAMES and 3615 CODE PERE NOEL) is an enormous discovery. Made a year before HOME ALONE (which, suspiciously,
Anna and the Apocalypse
Scottish BAFTA nominee ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE may just be the undisputed breakout zombie Christmas musical of 2018 (think SHAUN OF THE DEAD meets LA LA LAND). When the zombie apocalypse hits the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – teenager Anna and her high school friends have
Amadeus (Director’s Cut)
“This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing… It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.” Join us at the Rio Theatre as for the director’s cut of one of the 1980’s most acclaimed films; the lush, lavish, and endlessly
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
One trilogy marathon to rule them all…. Join us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, January 25 – for a daylong movie marathon event featuring Peter Jackson‘s LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy (Extended Edition!) – back-to-back, on the big screen, and in its entirety. Based on the high-fantasy
Batman Returns
“HELLo tHERE.” In the second of Tim Burton‘s blockbuster BATMAN films, the legendary hero (Michael Keaton) does battle against the slinky, mysterious Cat Woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) and the diabolically bizarre, sinister Penguin (Danny DeVito). Can Batman (Michael Keaton) battle two formidable foes at once? Especially when one wants
Hairspray (Hosted by Ricki Lake!)
“I’m a bad, bad girl who needs to be punished.” In honour of Ricki Lake‘s appearance at the Rio Theatre to promote her excellent new documentary WEED THE PEOPLE, we felt like we absolutely had to screen one of the best loved (if not best known) films from one of
Coming to America
“I want a woman that will arouse my intellect as well as my loins.” Are you ready to bark like a dog…? A big dog? Join us for a Friday Late Night Movie screening of one of the 80’s biggest comedy blockbusters, starring one of the biggest comedians of that