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High-Rise
“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.” … And so goes the opening sentence of J.G. Ballard’s acclaimed 1975 dystopian novel HIGH-RISE, faithfully adapted by
High Life
Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system.The crew death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled,
High Fidelity #MusicMonday
Top Five Anti-Romance Romantic Comedies Set in a Record Store… Go. The Rio Theatre is embracing the Valentine’s Day-ish spirit with a #MusicMonday screening of the 2000 slacker comedy HIGH FIDELITY. Adapted from Nick Hornby‘s novel (he also co-penned the script) of the same name, director
Hey, Viktor! FREE National Canadian Film Day Screening
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Tuesday, April 17 as we mark Reel Canada‘s National Canadian Film Day with a FREE screening of director Cody Lightning‘s new comedy HEY, VIKTOR! Lightning – who appeared as young Victor Joseph in Chris Eyre‘s groundbreaking 1998 feature SMOKE SIGNALS, a
Heretic
Two young missionary “sisters” are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant, in one of the most talked about performances of 2024), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse. With Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East,
Hereditary
In anticipation of the upcoming release of American horror master Ari Aster‘s new film BEAU IS AFRAID on April 21, we felt the time was right to take a look back at his 2018 feature film debut, HEREDITARY. When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s
Here’s To The Future!
Let’s all toast independent film for a night, shall we? Join us for a double bill evening featuring HERE’S TO THE FUTURE! + HIT 2 PASS (Official Selection DOXA, 2015). Both of these films incorporate multiple recording formats and make use of emerging technology to structure narratives that are stylish,
Here’s To The Future!
On a late-summer Sunday In 2011, a female director gathers a team of filmmakers, writers, musicians, artists, critics, and friends in an apartment to recreate a scene from Michael Curtiz’s Depression-era drama The Cabin in the Cotton. Over plates of pasta and glasses of red wine, a round robin of
Her Smell
Writer-director Alex Ross Perry (CHRISTOPHER ROBIN) re-unites with his QUEEN OF EARTH and LISTEN UP PHILIP star Elisabeth Moss (TV’s Mad Men, The Handmaid’s Tale) to tell the story of toxic punk-rocker Becky Something, the talented but self-destructive frontwoman of the riot girl-esque Something She, who seems determined to alienate