The Ukraine Harmony Foundation invites you to a special screening of the Ukrainian documentary film of the life and making of pop star legend Nazarii Yaremchuk at the Rio Theatre. YAREMCHUK: MATCHLESS WORLD OF BEAUTY is a biographical docu-drama about the life and career of the first Ukrainian pop star, Nazarii Yaremchuk. Tuesday, September 3 Doors … Read more
In collaboration with the Rio Theatre, Antisocial AV CLUB present to you a curated night of skateboard films that you may or may not have heard of before… Join us as we dive into the skateboard archive for the 15th anniversary screening of Alex Craig and Corey Adams’ epic adventure, MACHOTAILDROP (2009). Young Walter Rhum spends … Read more
In the Rio Theatre ongoing SUMMER MOVIE BATTLE, Team 80’s brought us the ‘Brat Pack’ while Team Y2K kicked, chopped and stunted it’s way into the new millennium with girl power, fun flicks like CHARLIE’S ANGELS. Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore), and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) are the “Angels,” three talented, tough, … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s deep dive into Y2K movie goodness continues with a 25th Anniversary screening of one of the heaviest hitters – of any genre – from that era, M. Night Shyamalan’s palpably epic, game-changing white knuckle-thrill ride, THE SIXTH SENSE Young Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. … Read more
Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skincare line, but her personal and work lives are challenged when rival facialist Angel Vergara opens a new skincare boutique directly across from her store. She starts to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage her … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on FRIDAY, (September) THE 13th for not one, but TWO titles from the iconic slasher franchise: FRIDAY THE 13th: Parts 2 & 3. Best of all Campers, we’re showing FRIDAY THE 13th: Part III in 3D! Part 2 picks up… Months after Alice (Adrienne King) beheaded psycho killer/mother Pamela … Read more
Watch this space for information about the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) including screenings, times, and tickets for the fest, which is taking over the Rio Theatre September 26 – October 26. All advance tickets are managed via www.viff.org. Please direct any and all queries about the VIFF to www.viff.org. *Sorry, Rio Theatre Groupons and … Read more
“You won’t get any dancing here, it’s illegal.” Cut loose (and kick off your Monday shoes) with a 40th Anniversary screening of the 1980s pop-culture classic FOOTLOOSE. In this iconic 80s romantic drama, Bacon stars as a kid from the big city who finds himself in a small, kinda backward hick town that has outlawed… … Read more
1997 — The EVENT HORIZON that brought the dawning of Y-2-K. What movie better sums up the nihilistic little minds of those millennial rascals, than a film about human technology opening inter-dimensional gateways that ultimately lead to the inevitable doom and destruction of mankind by using our own hidden, suppressed fears against us? Yay, Y2K! … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 30 with one of the aii-time classic grindhouse films ever made, Ruggero Deodato’s exploitation staple CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. Since its release in 1980, the film has been both banned and heavily censored throughout the world; decades after its release it continues to be a film … Read more
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