This one’s for all the “strange animals” out there! Join us at the Rio Theatre for a screening event that will leave all your “moonlight desires” completely satisfied this holiday season – a night of movies, music and holiday cheer featuring a double-header of the lupine body-horror comedy WOLFCOP followed by the equally hilarious ANOTHER WOLFCOP … Read more
There is no better way to appreciate the magic of Studio Ghibli than on the big screen! Movie-lovers of all ages adore animated classics from Japan’s famed Studio Ghibli, and Hayao Miyazaki‘s HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004) is one of the famed director’s most beloved, a spectacularly visual and highly imaginative feast for the eyes (and … Read more
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, filmmaker … Read more
Director Ridley Scott‘s highly stylized (and polarizing) HOUSE OF GUCCI is inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga, in one of the most talked about performances of the year), an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on with a screening of one of our favourite and most frequently requested titles – the bizarro 70’s Japanese cult-classic oddity that is HOUSE (“Hausu”). Some movies can’t be explained; they need to be experienced. HOUSE is one of those movies. (Trust.) How to describe Nobuhiko … Read more
HOUR OF THE WOLF (“Vargtimmen“) is Ingmar Bergman‘s spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before long, Ullmann is also experiencing her husband’s hallucinations; one of … Read more
Following rapturous responses from festival critics and audience around the world, Ben Young‘s chilling crime thriller HOUNDS OF LOVE has quietly emerged be the breakout, must-see indie Australian film of 2017; “…the rarest of beasts: a directorial debut that’s not only tonally flawless but also manages to radically re-imagine an entire genre.” (L.A. Times) HOUNDS … Read more
The Summer of 2025 marks the year that cinema’s most famous shark (aka, JAWS) turns 50, and it turns out there’s blood in the water (or on the screen?) as movie-loving audiences the world over hunger for more of the terrifying ocean predator. Japanese filmmaker Morihito Inoue makes his feature debut with a horror-comedy that is … Read more
Sandwiched deliciously between SHAUN OF THE DEAD and THE WORLD’S END, HOT FUZZ is the second installment of British filmmaker Edgar Wright‘s so-called “Cornetto Trilogy,” an anthology trio of cult-classic genre comedies that serve up action, laughs and… blood. As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) finds it difficult to adapt to his new … Read more
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