Movies
American Fiction
AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson‘s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
‘The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol’s plans. The symbol of the rebellion.‘ Keep the odds in your favor with the Rio Theatre’s Double Bill feature of THE
The Hunger Games
“May the odds be ever in your favor.” And they will be, with the Rio Theatre’s Double Bill feature of THE HUNGER GAMES & THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE on Sunday, March 31. In a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts and
The Boy and the Heron (Final Screening)
From the legendary Studio Ghibli and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (SPIRITED AWAY) comes a new critically-acclaimed fantasy adventure. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower,
About Dry Grasses
Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Further disenchanted when he and Kenan (Musab Ekici), a colleague, come under public scrutiny, Samet fears circumstances will keep him in Anatolia and his dreams of a new life
King Kong (1976) #MonsterMonday
“You God damn chauvinist pig ape!” KING KONG is a 1976 American monster adventure film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a modernized remake of the 1933 film about a giant ape that is captured and taken to New York City for exhibition. It stars Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange in her first film
Boat People: A Fifty Year Journey (With Live Q&A)
Embracing death on a quest for freedom. A documentary film by THANH TAM. Sunday, April 14 Doors 1:45 pm | Film 2:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Purchase advance tickets HERE | $22 at the door There will be a
Wonka
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book and one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, director Paul King‘s (PADDINGTON, PADDINTON 2) WONKA tells the musically wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and
Jorgovani
Katarina and Igor are actors who are in an emotional relationship both on and off the screen. Blinded by flashes and deafened by applause, although inseparable, they neither heard nor saw each other for a long time, until the awards ceremony for the best series of the year, where the
One From The Heart: Reprise (4K Restoration)
Francis Ford Coppola‘s ONE FROM THE HEART is an unabashedly grand, even even eccentric musical tribute to the power of love. Released in 1982, the film gained a certain notoriety inasmuch that it marked such a stylistic and thematic departure from the virtuoso auteur’s established oeuvre. Panned by some as