Two inseparable best friends navigate the last weeks of high school and are invited to a gigantic house party. Together with their nerdy friend, they spend a long day trying to score enough alcohol to supply the party and inebriate two girls in order to kick-start their sex lives before they go off to college. … Read more
As part of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver and in celebration of Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 10), the Rio Theatre is programming screenings of select Italian titles in June, including the utterly charming animated feature CINDERELLA THE CAT. Directed by a team including Alessandro Rak (who previously directed THE ART OF HAPPINESS), … Read more
As part of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver and in celebration of Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 10), the Rio Theatre is programming screenings of select Italian titles in June, including director Michael Radford‘s (IL POSTINO) engaging dramatization of the life of one of the most beloved singers of our age, Andrea Bocelli. … Read more
When an unfinished version of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay‘s (WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN) neo-noirish adaptation of writer Jonathan Ames‘ suspenseful crime thriller YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017, it netted awards for both Best Screenplay (Ramsay) and Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix). In another dark, powerful performance, … Read more
Our grad films!! Come support the 2018 graduates of the Capilano University Motion Picture Arts Program! Tickets are $5.00 available through Carpe Diem by clicking –> HERE Facebook event is –> HERE Message the hosts to purchase tickets! Door tickets are $7.00 (but they are going quick!) Doors 4:15pm, event starts 5pm SHARP! +19 for bar … Read more
Writer Diablo Cody, director Jason Reitman (UP IN THE AIR), and star Charlize Theron reunite with TULLY, a film that can easily be viewed as something of a thematic, spiritual sequel to both the Oscar-winning JUNO (directed by Reitman, from Cody’s Oscar-winning script) and 2011’s sorely under-seen coming-of-age comedy YOUNG ADULT. In this very modern … Read more
Inspired by the late Richard Wagamese‘s best-selling 2012 novel ‘Indian Horse,’ (which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013), director Stephen Campanelli‘s faithful adaptation follows the story of Saul Indian Horse, who as a seven year old in late 1950s Ontario, is torn from his Ojibway family and committed … Read more
As part of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver and in celebration of Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 10), the Rio Theatre is highlighting select Italian titles in June, including director Sergio Leone‘s newly remastered, genre-defining “spaghetti Western” A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964), starring Clint Eastwood (in his first leading role) as the iconic … Read more
As part of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver and in celebration of Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 10), the Rio Theatre is highlighting select Italian titles in June The cinderella here, Mia, has been mute since the death of her inventor and shipping-magnate father, Vittorio (Mariano Rigillo). He had great plans to … Read more
If they hear you, they hunt you. John Krasinski (best known as Jim on TV’s THE OFFICE) does triple duty here, as co-writer, director and actor of one of 2018’s breakout sleeper hits, the white-knuckle thriller A QUIET PLACE. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Krasinski and co-star Emily Blunt (who are married in real life) … Read more
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