The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movies series continues on July 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 a gift-wrapped ‘X’ certificate bonbon for … Read more
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 what many Trekkies still consider … Read more
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, the show also features special … Read more
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, Estée Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee found … Read more
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 (meaning “future”), the baby quickly … Read more
As the Overfiend slumbers, the mad emperor Caesar rises to power, enslaving a new race of demon beasts. Into this cruel existence is born the Lord of Chaos, the Overfiend’s nemesis. As the blood-thirsty beasts capture the tyrant’s daughter in a brutal coup, the Overfiend must awaken to an apocalyptic battle of the Gods.
As high-larious today as it was upon its release in 1975, this is Monty Python‘s comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages – as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for … Read more
In writer-director Bo Burnham‘s startlingly realistic feature film debut, the painful awkwardness (social and otherwise) of modern teen-dom is pitch-perfectly captured via a thirteen-year-old protagonist named Kayla (Golden Globe nominee Elsie Fisher, in one of the year’s most genuinely captivating performances). Young Kayla endures a seemingly endless tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she … Read more
Academy Award-Nominee Julian Schnabel‘s (THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY) AT ETERNITY’S GATE is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite skepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art. This is not a forensic biography, but rather scenes based on Vincent van … Read more
In Ali Abbasi‘s award-winning BORDER, nothing is quite as it seems. The story follows an unusual customs officer named Tina, a women who is well known for her extraordinary sense of smell – it’s almost as if she can sniff out the guilt on anyone hiding something. But when Vore, a suspicious-looking man, walks past … Read more
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