Movies
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
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Junk Head
Japanese animator Takahide Hori spent four years working on his 30 minute short film JUNK HEAD – and another four expanding it into its current feature-length iteration, an astounding stop-motion, post-apocalyptic sci-fi marvel that is an remarkable testament to its genuinely visionary creator. Following its World Premiere
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Hagazussa – A Heathen’s Curse
Director Lukas Feigelfeld‘s jaw-dropping feature debut HAGAZUSSA: A HEATHEN’S CURSE is an unlikely surprise; a gorgeously photographed, mostly silent grad school project that has quietly managed to make the rounds acrosss the world’s genre film fest circuit, with screenings at Fantastic Fest (Best Picture, “Next Wave” Feature), Sitges, London’s BFI,
Lucky
Best known as a character actor, John Carroll Lynch (FARGO, SHUTTER ISLAND, GRAN TORINO) makes a very comfortable move into the director’s chair with his debut feature LUCKY, a film that will forever be remembered as a fittingly poignant swan song for its tour de force performance from another beloved
Shrek
I bet you have never seen a donkey fly! Sometime since the release of this lovable animated satire in 2001 and now, SHREK has morphed into something of a cult-classic, a generational touchstone that make is perfect for a double bill screening with