Italian director Federica Di Giacomo‘s thoughtful, occasionally darkly funny documentary takes a look at the comeback of exorcism practice in Italy (and beyond) as she focuses her lens specifically on a rural Sicilian priest and his flock, many of whom suffer from a growing sense of unease that is diagnosed as “possession.” Father Cataldo is … Read more
When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son … Read more
Meet Stegman. He’s dead. In this crime comedy, bizarre assassins must come together to unravel the puzzle of Stegman’s blackmail secret, and why he’s already dead on the set of his own porn film. Stegman’s secret is somewhere within the rooms of his expansive suburban seventies bungalow, and the cops are already circling. Gus and … Read more
Get Your Grind On, Vancouver! Join us at Vancouver’s favourite independently owned and operated cinema, the Rio Theatre, for the third Rio Grind Film Festival – an immaculate assortment of new and award-winning international, Canadian, indie, cult, sci-fi and horror shorts, features, and documentaries. The Rio Grind Film Festival is currently accepting for submissions via … Read more
The J-Horror classic is back – with a new 4K restoration – for a 25th Anniversary screening at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, September 24. Directed by Hideo Nakata (DARK WATER), RINGU is the highest grossing Japanese horror movie in history that still manages to shred our nerves with its quiet, phantasmic elegance. This is … Read more
Canadian actor and filmmaker Mark O’Brien (READY OR NOT) does triple duty in his impressive, slow-burn directorial feature debut THE RIGHTEOUS, which he also wrote and stars in. Praised at genre film festivals around the world, THE RIGHTEOUS is a unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller strikingly shot in black and white. The film tells … Read more
There is a reason Leonardo DiCaprio (finally!) nabbed himself an Oscar for his turn as a 19th century frontiersman fighting for survival in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s (BIRDMAN) epic THE REVENANT – because he deserved it. Inspired by the true story of a fur trader named Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) who fought off a bear, was left … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a Friday Late Night screening of 80s horror comedy classic THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, a (totally true!) story of two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse who accidentally release a deadly gas into the air – when the vapors cause the dead to rise again … Read more
THE RESCUE chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Using a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews, Oscar-winners E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (FREE SOLO, MERU) keep viewers on the edge … Read more
Through the story of a man shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds, Oscar-winning Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit‘s gorgeously animated, transcendent parable THE RED TURTLE recounts the milestones, loneliness, and hope in the life of a human being. Perfect for film lovers of all ages, this mostly dialogue-less film … Read more
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