Movies
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: Krull (1983)
Come celebrate five glorious years of The Gentlemen Hecklers (aka your friendly local comedy trio who recently contributed some killer jokes for the latest season of Mystery Science Theater 3000) at the Rio Theatre with a very special anniversary screening of KRULL, a perfectly cheesy slice of 80’s sci-fi fantasy.
Spice World
Spice up your motherfudging life! This screening is the movie only with no live drag show! Get your platform shoes, British accents, and Union Jack dresses ready because SPICE WORLD, starring everybody’s favorite 90’s girl group (everyone else was such a wannabe, right?), is getting the
Overboard
Since summer is the absolute perfect time to make time for a movie-filled double bill date night kinda night, we thought it made perfect sense to pair two classic titles featuring films from one of favourite real-life romantic couples – Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn! As part of our Kurt
Battle Royale
The highly stylized and über-violent BATTLE ROYALE was a fitting swan song for director Kinji Fukasaku, whose mastery of the exploitation genre is on full display in this hugely influential cult-classic. Adapted from novel ‘Battle Royale’ by Japanese writer Koushun Takami, Fukasaku’s BATTLE ROYALE
Aliens (The Directors Cut)
“Get away from her, you bitch!” Join us at the Rio Theatre for a Double Creature Feature screening of one of our all-time favourite franchises! We’re going into deep space with encore screenings of Ridley Scott‘s iconic 1979 ALIEN (The Director’s Cut – May
Tokyo Story
“One of cinema’s greatest masterpieces.” (Film Comment) Loosely based it on the relatively obscure 1937 American film MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW, director Yasujirō Ozu‘s TOKYO STORY was initially released in Japan in 1953, to little attention. It was initially considered “too Japanese” to be marketable abroad, but in the
Dirty Dancing + Pop This! Podcast
“I carried a watermelon.” Celebrate ANDREA WARNER‘s new book, The Time of My Life, on Wednesday, August 7 with a special DIRTY DANCING screening and costume contest! Keep it Crayze for Swayze and stick around for a double bill screening with DONNIE DARKO. Have the
Beatriz at Dinner
Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is a Los Angeles massage therapist and holistic healer who drives to the seaside mansion of her client Cathy (Connie Britton). When her old Volkswagen breaks down, she receives a friendly invitation from Cathy to stay for a seemingly innocent business dinner. As the guests arrive and
Sunset Boulevard (75th Anniversary Screening)
“We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces!” The Rio Theatre‘s series of classics continues with one of our favourite genres – movies about movies (and, by extension, Hollywood). One of the greatest commentaries on ‘the biz’ comes from master filmmaker Billy Wilder, and his impeccably dark film noir
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window
“Mind if I use that portable keyhole?” Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries (James Stewart) breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to