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Dread Central Presents: The Lodgers

Following its World Premiere at TIFF and its European Premiere as Sitges Film Festival‘s closing night film, director Brian O’Malley‘s (2015’s criminally under-seen LET US PREY) exquisite, sensual and chilling work of pure gothic horror, THE LODGERS, is coming to the Rio Theatre on Friday, February 23 as

Loving Vincent

This feature-length painted animation — the first film of its kind (and a 2018 Best Animated Feature Academy Award nominee) — explores the life and unusual death of celebrated painter Vincent Van Gogh via depictions of his artworks, bringing the paintings to life to tell his

My Friend Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America’s most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Ross Lynch, in a breakout performance) is an awkward teenager

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

If behind every great man is a great woman, then Harvard psychologist and inventor Dr. William Moulton Marston has the good fortune of having two — his wife Elizabeth and their mutual lover Olive Byrne. In addition to helping him perfect the lie detector test, the two women also inspire

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Deliver Us (‘Libera Nos’)

Italian director Federica Di Giacomo‘s thoughtful, occasionally darkly funny documentary takes a look at the comeback of exorcism practice in Italy (and beyond) as she focuses her lens specifically on a rural Sicilian priest and his flock, many of whom suffer from a growing sense of unease that is diagnosed

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Beyond Skyline

When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the

Another Wolfcop

Join us at the Rio Theatre for a Friday Late Night Movie screening event that will leave all you “strange animals” howling at the moon – it’s ANOTHER WOLFCOP! (A Canadian body-horror comedy that’s also a Christmas movie?!? Awwwwooooo!!!)  (Winner, Best Canadian Feature Fantasia Fest 2017) A month

Dunkirk

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, November 11 for a Remembrance Day screening of acclaimed auteur Christopher Nolan‘s 2018 Oscar-winner, DUNKIRK. Told in three parts, this thrilling World War II drama takes a bold and innovative look at the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium,

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Short Film Block 2

Here’s this year’s amazing selection of Rio Grind Film Festivals Short Films! It was another fantastic round of entries but we narrowed it down. Keep an eye out for these titles, and congrats to everyone whose film is being screened.   Sunday, November 19 – Short Block

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Short Film Block 1

Here’s this year’s amazing selection of Rio Grind Film Festivals Short Films! It was another fantastic round of entries but we narrowed it down. Keep an eye out for these titles, and congrats to everyone whose film is being screened.   Saturday, November 18 Short Block 1 (In no particular

About The Rio

Voted the #1 Independent Theatre in Vancouver, the Rio Theatre is a multimedia venue featuring arthouse, mainstream and cult-classic cinemas as well as live entertainment. Built in 1938, the Rio has been fully restored with a state of the art digital projector, surround sound, a huge stage and 420 luxurious seats.

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