Movies
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (40th Anniversary Screening)
“At the end of the Earth lies the beginning of vengeance…” Logically, there’s probably no better time for a screening of what is, arguably, the best STAR TREK movie than its anniversary, is there? Join us on Monday, June 13 for a 40th Anniversary, encore screening of STAR
Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory
“It explodes in the no-man’s land no picture ever dared cross before!” Adapting Humphrey Cobb‘s novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty.
Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
“No time for the old in-n-out, love, I’ve just come to read the meter.” Based on Anthony Burgess’s disturbing novel about England in the totalitarian future, director Stanley Kubrick‘s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE stars Malcolm McDowell as Alex, a Beethoven-loving, head-bashing punk who leads his gang of droogs on
Stand By Me
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” Decades after its release in 1986, Rob Reiner‘s STAND BY ME remains one of the most beloved film adaptations ever – and an enduring, nostalgic “end of summer”
Stand by for Tape Back-up
With his “performance documentary” STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP, British poet, filmmaker, and performance artist Ross Sutherland takes fragments of old films and TV shows and rebuilds them into an audiovisual meditation on memory, death and reruns. “I found a videotape in my loft. On it: one and a half
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn‘s first feature documentary SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all
SPY
Join us at the Rio Theatre for exclusive Vancouver screenings of the Telugu-language action thriller SPY, starring Nikhil Siddharth, Iswarya Menon, Aryan Rajesh, Makrand Deshpande. Wednesday, June 28 Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Advance online
Spy
One of the guys. One of the spies. Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Jude Law and Rose Byrne star in director Paul Feig’s (creator of TV’s FREAKS AND GEEKS and director of BRIDESMAIDS and the upcoming GHOSTBUSTERS reboot) latest summer blockbuster comedy, SPY, a film about a desk-bound CIA analyst
Spring Breakers
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on May 12 with Harmony Korine‘s SPRING BREAKERS. Four frustrated college girlfriends (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine) plot to fund their best spring break ever by burglarizing a fast-food shack. But that’s only the beginning. During a
Spotlight
The star-studded ensemble piece SPOTLIGHT shone at this year’s Academy Awards, winning both Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Based on the true story of the tenacious group of investigavtive journalists at The Boston Globe whose work blew the lid off of years of widespread sexual abuse cover-ups within the Roman