Movies
Handling the Undead
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death
Ukraine Harmony Foundation presents: International Children’s Day
We invite you to a special screening of an animated film at the Rio Theatre, dedicated to the International Children’s Day. Vote online for the animated film you’d like to see on the Film Hive, UHF, and Ukrainians in Vancouver Facebook pages. We will announce the winner among such beloved
“Slovo” House. Unfinished Novel
Based on true events, this drama delves into the lives of Ukrainian writers during the era of the “Executed Renaissance.” In collaboration with MUR and their musical project “You’re a Romantic,” it tells the story of the “Slovo” house, where Soviet authorities gathered Ostap Vyshnia, Pavlo Tychyna, Les Kurbas,
Cobra
The Rio’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on May 31 with Sylvester Stallone in the ultra-violent (yet deliciously cheesey) 1986 crime thriller COBRA. “It is such an exercise in pure unchecked and misplaced testosterone run amuck… that it exerts strange but undeniable fascination.” (The Spool) Bonus Points:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
This final movie version was created as an alternative ending to the NEON GENESIS EVANGELION TV series, remaking the final two episodes from the series. SEELE plans an attack on NERV after failing to create a man-made Third Impact. After reaffirming both her own and her mother’s existence in a
La Chimera
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost,
Boy Kills World
Bill Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy, the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, Boy
Plastic People
The ground-breaking feature documentary PLASTIC PEOPLE investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. Almost every bit of plastic ever made breaks down into “microplastics.” These microscopic particles drift in the air, float in all bodies of water, and mix into the soil, becoming
The Last Stop in Yuma County
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune. With Jim Cummings,
Surface of Blood
By filmmakers Logan Charron, Michael Tinsley, and Maria Pashkovsky comes a hilarious criminal dance covered in blood. A story of crime, commitment, and danger told through the ludicrous perspectives of incompetent people. What if an important deal was in the hands of the only ones who suck at their