Movies
Running on Climate – With Andrew Weaver, Pete Fry and Wes Regan
Join us at the Rio for this unique movie night. Running On Climate, by filmmaker Robert Alstead, looks at the lengths scientists will go to highlight the dangers of runaway climate change and the actions individuals can take to avert catastrophe. Its principle subject is Andrew Weaver, the internationally renowned
Balance: World Premiere
What makes you happy ? This action-packed documentary is making a parallel between surfers, snowboarders and skateboarders to find out what makes them happy, go back for more and what is the feeling they get while playing their specific sports and lifestyles . DCP travels from Russia to Switzerland, Vancouver
Listening: Canadian Premier with Director Q&A
For years, we have tried to harness the power of the human mind… and failed. Now, one breakthrough will change everything. Beyond technology. Beyond humanity. Beyond control. LISTENING, the award-winning debut feature from visionary director Khalil Sullins, is a psychological thriller about penniless grad students who invent mind-reading technology that
Cruel Intentions
What you can’t have, you can’t resist. Proving that a good plot and strong characters make for timeless storytelling in any era, CRUEL INTENTIONS is a 90s adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel “Les Liaisons dangereuses,” that was released on the heels of both Stephen Frears’ DANGEROUS LIAISIONS
Let the Right One In
Join us for a Friday Late Night Movie screening of director Tomas Alfredson’s highly acclaimed work of romantic horror, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Set in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1982, the film follows Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar
David Lynch’s Dune
“He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!” The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on April 26 with David Lynch‘s notoriously polarizing 1984 oddity, DUNE. Based on Frank Herbert‘s epic novel, the story was famously deemed “unadaptable” for years before Lynch’s infamous foray.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
The Rio Theatre is pleased to present one of the most fascinating movies about movies of recent years, Frank Pavich’s acclaimed look at, perhaps, one of the greatest movies never made: JODOROWSKY’S DUNE. Featuring commentary from Alejandro Jodorowsky, Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger (ALIEN), Michel Seydoux, Nicholas Winding Refn, Richard Stanley
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Kowabunga, dude! Join us for a double dose of teenaged turtle action on Friday, September. The original TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990) is screening in prime time (!) followed by our Friday Late Night Movie, TMNT 2: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE. All ages welcome in the balcony! TEENAGE MUTANT
Spy
One of the guys. One of the spies. Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Jude Law and Rose Byrne star in director Paul Feig’s (creator of TV’s FREAKS AND GEEKS and director of BRIDESMAIDS and the upcoming GHOSTBUSTERS reboot) latest summer blockbuster comedy, SPY, a film about a desk-bound CIA analyst
Jurassic World
One of the biggest blockbusters of Summer 2015 is ready to rip in to the Rio’s big screen. 22 years after the original Jurassic Park failed, the new park (also known as Jurassic World) is open for business. After years of studying genetics the scientists on the park genetically engineer