The Satellite Girl And Milk Cow

Join us at The Rio Sunday April 10th for this special presentation as part of the REEL2REEL FILM FESTIVAL | APRIL 8-15, 2016 SCREENS:  Sunday, April 10, 2016 – 14:00. Doors 1:30pm – TICKETS: $9 adult; $6 child, youth, senior; $5 each for groups of 10 or more –>Online tickets available by clicking HERE   … Read more

The Sandlot (25th Anniversary Screening!)

“You’re killing me, Smalls!” Play ball! Unleash your inner-90s, coming-of-age self with a family-friendly, 25th Anniversary screening of one of our all-time favourite baseball movies – THE SANDLOT. It’s the early 1960’s and fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork — he can’t even throw a … Read more

The Sammy C Project

Get ready Vancouver – on Thursday, December 10, join us for the one-night only premiere of TGR’s newest film, The Sammy C Project.       Witness firsthand what makes Sammy Carlson one of the most versatile, creative skiers in the world, as he steps away from a hugely successful career on competitive circuit to … Read more

The Salt of the Earth

Join us at the Rio  to view this breathtaking documentary. “Wim Wenders confirms his mastery of the documentary form with this stunning ode to Sebastiao Salgado.” Tuesday June 2nd Doors 6:10pm/ Movie 6:40 Tickets $10 in advance/ $12 at the door riotheatretickets.ca +19 with 2 pieces of ID for bar service All Ages welcome on the … Read more

The Salesman

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) was recently awarded his second Best Foreign Language Oscar (this time in absentia, out of solidarity for those whose movement into the US has been compromised) for the politically subversive THE SALESMAN. In keeping with his growing body of exceptional work, this film too moves quietly and capably into … Read more

The Sadness

The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on Friday, April 29 with one of the most talked-about horror movies of 2021, Canadian writer-director  Rob Jabbaz‘s brutally explosive, hyper-violent zombie horror satire THE SADNESS. As the city of Taipei suddenly erupts into bloody chaos in the midst of a plague, ordinary people are compulsively … Read more

The Running Man (1987)

Join us at the Rio Theatre for our Friday Late Night Movie THE RUNNING MAN. Friday, August 7 Doors 11:30 | Movie 11:59 Tickets $6 in advance or $8 at the door Advance tickets at www.riotheatretickets.ca *Groupons and passes OK. Please redeem at the door. *All tickets 19+ w/ID for entry and bar service. THE … Read more

The Rules of Attraction

Based on the novel by acclaimed author Bret Easton Ellis (“Less Than Zero”) “Rules” centers around “American Psycho” protagonist Patrick Bateman’s younger brother Sean, and his college friends’ bizarre mating rituals at a posh liberal college that mix sex, drugs, music and mayhem in a kaleidoscopic story about three students entangled in a curiously surreal … Read more

The Rule of Jenny Pen

New Zealand writer-director James Ashcroft‘s deliciously creepy THE RULE OF JENNY PEN is a psychological horror with dashes of demented satire that feeds off our collective fear of aging, in this very capable two-hander that offers pitch-perfect turns from John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush. Rush stars as arrogant Judge Stefan Mortensen, who suffers a near-fatal … Read more

The Royal Tenenbaums

Writer-director Wes Anderson‘s unique, signature narrative and visual style are front and center in his offbeat 2001 comedy, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, an extraordinary story of one family’s sudden, unexpected reunion. Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children–Chas, Richie, and Margot–they were a family of geniuses and then they separated. Chas started buying real … Read more