“Can you dig it?” We’re getting into the summer groove with a prime time double bill featuring not one, but two phenomenally stylish cult-classics from iconic filmmaker Walter Hill: THE WARRIORS and STREETS OF FIRE. See one, or see ’em both for one sweet price! Come out and play with us with one seriously bad-ass … Read more
Phil Demers is a part-time mailman who lives in a bungalow across the creek from MarineLand, the iconic amusement park in Niagara Falls, where he had his dream job as an animal trainer for over a decade. He swam with killer whales and ran the show, until he quit and blew the whistle, making claims … Read more
“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?” There’s evil in the wood…. In the exquisitely made and terrifying debut film from writer-director Robert Eggers (NOSFERATU, THE NORTHMAN, THE LIGHTHOUSE), the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling in the New … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for THE VOID, the latest feature from the Executive Producer of 2016’s breakout historical horror drama THE WITCH, and writer/director Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie – perhaps best known for their work as part of the celebrated Canadian genre collective Astron-6 (MANBORG, FATHER’S DAY). “With THE VOID we are … Read more
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania‘s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB skillfully blends documentary and dramatic narrative elements to tell the true, and truly harrowing story behind an incident experienced in 2024 when volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society stayed on the phone with a 6-year-old girl who was herself trapped inside a car in … Read more
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania‘s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB skillfully blends documentary and dramatic narrative elements to tell the true, and truly harrowing story behind an incident experienced in 2024 when volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society stayed on the phone with a 6-year-old girl who was herself trapped inside a car in … Read more
One of our favourite annual events that we adore participating in and being a part of is Italian Day on the Drive. Like everyone in Vancouver, we have really missed this East Vancouver tradition over the past two summers! Our friends at The Italian Day Festival Society have organized a scaled-down, village-style Italian Day event … Read more
In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. … Read more
Since she was a little girl, Sook-hee was raised to be a deadly assassin. She gladly accepts the chance to start a new life when South Korea’s Intelligence Agency recruits her as a sleeper agent, with the promise of complete freedom after ten years of service. But soon after taking on her new identity as … Read more
You’re invited to the film premiere of THE VILLAGE OF LOVERS, a feature documentary exploring the radical research community of Tamera in Portugal. Local filmmaker Ian MacKenzie will be in attendance to premiere the film and host a Q&A afterwards. Thursday, June 22 Doors 6:30 pm | Movie 7:00 pm *Please arrive on time. Start … Read more
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