In DREAMS SO REAL, the new feature-length 4K concert documentary, Canadian rock group Metric’s last live performance of a year-long sold-out world tour is captured, to glorious effect. In 2016 the group traversed the globe on the most significant tour of their career. The show in Vancouver, BC was the culmination of a year’s work … Read more
Currently nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category, FACES PLACES is a quirky, soulful road trip exploration featuring legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda and her friend JR, who have a few things in common: A passion for and the exploration of images in general, and more precisely, for places and for ways of … Read more
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. Nominated for four Oscars – including Best Picture and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, scribe James Ivory took home the little man for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of 2017’s best, CALL … Read more
Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival presents: The Gentlemen Hecklers at The Rio Theatre Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Doors 9pm/ Show 9:30pm. Tickets $12/ $14 at the door Tickets are on-sale now by clicking HERE! +19 only for admission. No Passes or Groupons accepted for this show, sorry. _ Come see folks who wrote jokes … Read more
Takashi Miike’s ICHI THE KILLER has endured as one of the most influential pieces of genre filmmaking of the last two decades, and now it returns in a stunning all-new 4k restoration – approved by Miike himself. This visceral, bloody, and often hilarious film follows Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano), a notoriously sadistic yakuza enforcer whose search … Read more
Set in the German-Turkish community in Hamburg, grief-stricken Katja (Diane Kruger, took home the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in what many are calling, “the performance of a lifetime”) takes revenge for her family after her life falls apart when two neo-Nazis kill her husband and 6-year-old in a brutal bomb explosion. … Read more
“Edwina’s insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.” Cagefest – our (unofficial) Nicolas Cage Film Fest (aka, NIFF), a solid 5 days’ worth of our fave performances from one of our all-time favourite contemporary actors – continues on Friday, October 9, with an encore screening of his game-changing performance in … Read more
A strange disorder suddenly causes parents to violently turn against their own children, forcing a suburban teen (Anne Winters) and her younger brother (Zackary Arthur) to evade the clutches of their now-deranged mom (Selma Blair) and dad (Nicolas Cage). However, their situation gets even more complicated when their grandparents (Lance Henriksen and Marilyn Dodds Frank) … Read more
The Geekenders present “XXX-Men: Professor Xavier’s Burlesque for Gifted Youngsters” this April 6 & 7 at The Rio Theatre! Come “Marvel” at the “Fox-y” local talent, while we remove our “X-Jeans” one leg at a time. From classic burlesque, to comedy and contortion, you won’t want to miss our “Dance Dance Evolution“! Come celebrate being … Read more
LIVING ON SOUL is a hybrid docu-concert film featuring the late Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley and the rest of the Grammy-nominated Daptone Records family. Filmed largely during Daptone’s December 2014 three-night, sold-out residency at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, the documentary features a mixture of live performances and verité scenes that paint a robust … Read more
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