On Saturday, May 13 we’re celebrating the one and only Jack Nicholson with a Jack Off! Double Feature highlighting two memorable – not to mention very different – turns from one of cinema’s most celebrated actors. Join us at 7:00 pm for CHINATOWN, then stick around and dance with the devil in the pale moonlight … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, August 22 for a special 30th Anniversary Screening of the Coen Brothers‘ quirky, genre-defying BARTON FINK. Part film noir, part horror-comedy, part psychological thriller, and part satirical love-letter to Hollywood (not to mention the entire creative writing process), BARTON FINK tells the story of the renowned, eponymous … Read more
Join Lot 40 and the Canadian Professional Bartenders Association as we welcome bartending legend Erick Castro to Vancouver for the Canadian Premier of the smash hit documentary BARTENDER AT LARGE. Complimentary Lot 40 cocktails created and poured by the CPBA will be served before and after the screening and the film will be followed by … Read more
The tale of a rogue who conned his way to the top and back again… returning to cinemas this summer to celebrate its landmark 50th anniversary! With the ravishing new 4K restoration debuting at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and closing out the Cannes Classics strand, Stanley Kubrick‘s Academy Award®-winning historical epic BARRY LYNDON is more breathtaking … Read more
A famous prison escape sparks the idea for a cult-like race that has seen only 10 finishers in its first 25 years. This award-winning, oddly inspiring, and wildly funny documentary reveals the sports world’s most guarded secret. Tuesday, March 29th Doors 7:00pm | Movie 7:30pm Tickets $15 : Advance tickets available click HERE +19 for … Read more
Greta Gerwig‘s candy-coated box-office smash BARBIE is coming to the Rio Theatre! Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling, in an Oscar-worthy performance) are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover … Read more
Greta Gerwig‘s candy-coated box-office smash BARBIE is returning to the Rio Theatre! Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling, in an Oscar-worthy performance) are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movies series continues on July 18 with a big ol’ cheesy slice of unadulterated 60’s camp, with “Queen of the Galaxy” Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim’s out-of-this-world sci-fi sex romp / cult-classic, BARBARELLA. With Anita Pallenberg, John Phillip Law, Marcel Marceau. “BARBARELLA is a gift-wrapped ‘X’ certificate bonbon for … Read more
“Don’t call me Babe!” The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues of May 8 with a 30th Anniversary screening of one of the campiest films to ever come out of the 90’s, BARB WIRE. Canadian Pamela Anderson stars in this retro-glam, weirdly prescient dystopian odyssey (set in 2017) loaded with fights, gun battles … Read more
Director Chris Moukarbel’s look at the sensational (not to mention notoriously mysterious) artist known around the world as Banksy and his electrifying “31 works of art in 31 days” project in New York City. The film is comprised of footage cobbled together from various sources, including material crowd-sourced from mobile phones and Banksy’s own narrative … Read more
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