Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: He’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing. Directed by Greg Berlanti (Riverdale, … Read more
LOVE, ACTUALLY: The best or worst Christmas movie of all time? Every year, Pop This! co-hosts Lisa Christiansen and Andrea Warner fight about the THE HOLIDAY vs. LOVE, ACTUALLY. For the fifth annual argument, we’re keeping the focus on LOVE, ACTUALLY and taking our fight to the Rio Theatre. With special guests comedian and author … Read more
“To me you are perfect.” Rom-com master Richard Curtis (who also wrote FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL, BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY) wrote and directs a star-studded cast in LOVE ACTUALLY, a holiday staple that’s achieved a kind of cult-status in the years since its release in 2003. The mostly British ensemble (including Hugh Grant, … Read more
South Asian filmmaker Pradeep Ranganathan‘s romantic comedy LOVE TODAY tells the story of two young lovers, who are made to exchange their phones for a day and what happens as a result of that. Sunday, November 27 CANCELED Doors 11:15 am | Movie 11:45 am *Please arrive on time. Start time subject to change. *Online … Read more
From British director Rose Glass (whose 2019 feature film debut, the psychological horror thriller SAINT MAUD, was criminally underseen) comes an electric new love story, LOVE LIES BLEEDING. The film follows reclusive gym manager Lou, who falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their … Read more
Small-time criminal Watty Watts (Gil Bellows) attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black (Rory Cochrane). The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene (Renée Zellweger). Heading toward Mexico, the fugitive couple gets plenty of media … Read more
Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards (including Best Supporting Actor, Paul Dano and Best Original Song) LOVE & MERCY tells its story in an unconventional, if not unwieldy way – much like the life of its principle subject, Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Wilson famously struggled with emerging psychosis while he crafted his avant-garde pop masterpiece, … Read more
Indie mainstay Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco) pulls of a fantastic about-face with his latest feature, Love & Friendship. Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel and Stephen Fry star in this charming period comedy-drama based on Jane Austen’s little-known novella “Lady Susan.” As beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon (Beckinsale) visits the … Read more
Spence Cutler is a psychopath. He’s never felt empathy or guilt. However, a fateful encounter with a new drug is about to give him a dose of too much reality, and he takes a mind-bending trip down the psychedelic highway of consciousness to come face to face with his own morality and his own twisted … Read more
After a short-lived career as a Los Angeles film director, JD (Jerome Velinsky) returns to Vancouver only to find out that his cancer has returned and that his life now hangs in the balance. So in a final attempt to outrun fate, JD takes his 3 best friends, Hill (Khamisa Wilsher), Connie (Christopher Gerard) and … Read more
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