Kids Culture Film Series Presents A HORSE ON THE BALCONY German with English subtitles! SUNDAY DECEMBER 6th @ 12:30pm. Doors 12pm Ages 7+ Rated G Advanced tickets available by clicking HERE Adults $8 Kids $5 online, $9/$6 at the door No Groupons or passes accepted for this show unfortunately Synopsis: 10-year-old Mika is different … Read more
“F**k me, Santa! F**k me, Santa! F**k me, Santa!” Make merry-merry with seriously fun Christmas Eve screening of two seriously hi-la-rious ho-ho-holiday classics – National Lampoon’s CHRISTMAS VACATION and BAD SANTA. Billy Bob Thornton has never been better than as the grumpy, alcoholic con-man mall Santa (who, underneath it all actually does have a heart … Read more
FINAL DATE JUST ANNOUNCED! Director Charles Wilkinson (Oil Sands Karaoke, Peace Out), completes his environmental trilogy with Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World. Winner of the top prize at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto and winner of Most Popular Canadian Documentary at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, the film … Read more
Join the Gentlemen Hecklers on Wednesday, December 9 as they return to the Rio Theatre to follow up their werewonderful skewering of BREAKING DAWN Part 1 by unleashing their inner-fangirils (again!) on the final installlment of the legendary Twilight franchise – BREAKING DAWN Part 2! (Because once was not enough.) Wednesday, December 9 Doors 8:30 … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series kicks off October with one of our all-time favourites is the canon of classic midnighters: Tobe Hooper‘s iconic 1974 slasher masterpiece, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (gore-geously remastered in 2014!). Just as Alfred Hitchcock‘s PSYCHO was based on the life of deeply disturbed farmer Ed Gein, so is … Read more
Join us a the Rio for the official Videogracias & Footyfiend for the Vancouver Premiere. VIDEO GRACIAS November 15th, Doors 6pm. FREE TICKETS at The Boardroom in Vancouver with food donation. EXPECT SOME SPICEY HEAT FROM A GREAT GANG OF HELLIONS. ALEX SHERMAN, DANIMALS, DARRELL MATHES, DERREK LEVER, GUS ENGLE, HARRISON GORDON, JED ANDERSON, JUSTIN … Read more
One girl. One city. One night. One take. | One of the absolute must-see films of 2015, Germany’s Silver Bear for Best Cinematography winner VICTORIA manages to tell its kinetic, edge-of-your-seat dramatic narrative in a most impressive way: A single take. Sunday, December 13 Doors 5:30 | Movie 6:00 Tickets $10 in advance HERE/ $12 … Read more
“The most profoundly insane piece of personal filmmaking ever produced.” – Drew McWeeny, HitFix You’ve seen THE ROOM. You know TROLL 2. You witnessed MIAMI CONNECTION. And you’re still trying to understand WTF was going on in ROAR. Now, the latest film in the canon that can only be described as “so bad, it’s beyond … Read more
“If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and I didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?”Though he died before the film’s release, actor James Dean’s tragically short yet utterly remarkable career is most closely identified with his … Read more
Celebrated photographer Anton Corbijn (Depeche Mode, Bjork, U2) follows up on 2014’s A MOST WANTED MAN with LIFE, a look at James Dean’s blossomng early career as told through the lens of a burgeoning friendship the actor had with an ambitious young photographer at LIFE Magazine. Starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan. Sun, … Read more
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