Movies
Life Off Grid
LIFE OFF GRID is a film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewableenergy with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results. Filmed over two years of travel throughout Canada, LIFE OFF GRID shows how “off-gridders” have disconnected their houses while maintaining a familiar sense of home. Filmmaker
Experimenter
Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder star in Sundance and TIFF festival favourite EXPERIMENTER, the story of controversial social psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose radical experiments tested humans willingness to obey authority. Also starring Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Kellan Lutz, Anthony Edwards, Jim Gaffigan. “… a heady brew of theories
The Monster Squad
“Wolfman’s got nards!” Join us for one of your favourite 80s action-horror-comedy-fantasy flicks THE MONSTER SQUAD – with star Andre Gower (who played Sean Crenshaw) joining in via Skype to introduce the film and take your questions. What happens when a bunch of kids who idolize classic movie monsters bring
The Iron Giant (Signature Edition)
The Rio Theatre‘s deep dive into Y2K-era movie goodness continues with one programmed just for kids – and kids at heart! Before he went on to helm such animated features as THE INCREDIBLES and RATATOUILLE, Brad Bird made his stunning directorial debut in 1999 with THE IRON GIANT, adapted from
The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows
After two FANtastic shows in early November, The Rio Theatre is pleased to present encore screenings of the acclaimed ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS on November 15 at 1:30 pm and November 19 at 6:30 pm. All ages OK! Now in its 17th year, THE ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS is one
LRG: 1947
Premiering this October LRG Clothing’s 2nd Full Length Video: 1947 Doors @ 7PM/ Show 7:30pm, come early to get a good spot Admission is free! – All Ages welcome on the Balcony, +19 on the main floor with access to fully licensed bar Starring Tom Asta
Dude Bro Party Massacre III
“This play can be played without any age restriction. It will work if the chemistry between all the characters makes sense. Human behavior and betrayal applies to all of us. It exists within ourselves. You love somebody. Do you? What is love?” So begins Tommy Wiseau’s first draft of what
Reservoir Dogs (30th Anniversary Screening!)
Seven total strangers team up for the perfect crime. They don’t know each other’s name… But they’ve got each other’s colour. In 1992, Quentin Tarantino‘s mind-blowlingly stylish, explosive heist-gone-awry masterpiece RESERVOIR DOGS was unleashed; in addition to cleaning up at
Deathgasm
The Rio Grind Film Festival is pleased to present a very last minute – but so very welcome – late night addition to the Rio Theatre’s calendar on Friday, October 9. Following its World Premiere at SXSW 2015, New Zealander Jason Lei Howden’s DEATHGASM has become one of the “ones
This Changes Everything
Directed by Avi Lewis (AFI Festival award-winner ‘The Take’) and inspired by the New York Times-bestselling book by Naomi Klein (‘Shock Doctrine’), the feature documentary ‘This Changes Everything’ will be opening at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, October 10. The film brings Naomi Klein’s radical, inspiring thesis to life through