This Movie is part of The Vancouver Queer Film Festival All information and tickets can also be found at http://queerfilmfestival.ca/ Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival is Vancouver’s second largest film festival and the largest queer arts event in Western Canada. The Festival hosts a variety of performances, workshops, panels, parties and … Read more
This Movie is part of The Vancouver Queer Film Festival All information and tickets can also be found at http://queerfilmfestival.ca/ Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival is Vancouver’s second largest film festival and the largest queer arts event in Western Canada. The Festival hosts a variety of performances, workshops, panels, … Read more
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. “The bizarre and ultimately shocking film… has become one of the stand-out documentaries at this year’s Sundance festival.” – The … Read more
In 2007, musician Kathryn Calder (of The New Pornographers) is touring the world with one of Canada’s biggest indie rock bands when her family receives devastating news: Her mother, Lynn, has two to three years left to live. She has ALS. Kathryn learns that ALS is a progressive, paralyzing disease, with no treatment or cure. A … Read more
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the … Read more
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this. “ Remember the first time a Hollywood movie reboot “ruined childhood?” So do we… Sigh. It was Spring, 2008, and for the fourth time, Harrison Ford strapped on his world-weary fedora as archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones. Though he no longer had to contend with pesky Nazis (all their … Read more
Viva, Las Vegas! The King of Rock n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, shines in the recently restored concert film Elvis: That’s The Way It Is, which is getting the big screen treatment at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, August 11 at 7:00 pm. This 1970 concert documentary captures “The King” midway through a fateful transition, seeking … Read more
This 1982 remake of Howard Hawke’s 1951 classic is a bleak, tense and frightening sci-fi thriller that delivers some truly memorable practical and makeup effects, in addition to Kurt Russell‘s pitch-perfect performance. THE THING is an ice-cold white-knuckle chiller about about scientists in the Antarctic who are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the … Read more
In celebration of John Carpenter‘s 1976 gritty action thriller ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 getting the 4K Restoration treatment, we thought we’d also give it the double bill treatment with another Carpenter classic that his fans can’t get enough of – ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK! See one, or see ’em both for one sweet price! John … Read more
“It’s all in the reflexes…” The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues with John Carpenter‘s insanely fun and totally 80s martial arts-filled action fantasy BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. Don’t forget to come wearing your tank top tucked into your jeans with no belt. Carpenter’s “muse” (they’ve made more than a few films … Read more
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