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The Humans

Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director

CANCELLED Rio Grind Film Festival: Bloody Oranges

Due to technical difficulties, Sunday’s screening of BLOODY ORANGES is canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. – Rio Theatre Management. The Rio Theatre‘s Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Sunday, November 28 with a screening of French director Jean-Christophe Meurisse‘s dark, deeply satirical, and highly provocative BLOODY ORANGES,

Rio Grind Film Festival: Rad (35th Anniversary Screening)

The Rio Theatre’s Rio Grind Film Festival concludes on Sunday, November 28 with a screening of a slice of something seriously 80’s, the oft-requested, always capitalized, cult-classic RAD. In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the 1986 BMX racing film has returned to theaters with a new 35th anniversary restoration. Bill

Rio Grind Film Festival: The Howling (2021 Restoration) 40th Anniversary Screening

The Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with a 40th Anniversary screening of director Joe Dante‘s “biting’ satire on werewolf movies, THE HOWLING. Dee Wallace (E.T.) stars as Karen White, a LA news anchor with a serial killer for a stalker, leads the man into a trap

Rio Grind Film Festival: Agnes (Encore Screening!)

The Rio Grind Film Festival‘s Rio Grind Film Festival presents an encore showing  of prolific Oklahoma writer-director Mickey Reece’s latest, AGNES, which has also screened at the New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in Austin. If you’re not familiar with the work of this emerging, “outsider” filmmaker, Reece

Rio Grind 2021: Ditched (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)

The Rio Theatre‘s Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with writer-director Christopher Donaldson‘s survivor-horror film DITCHED. Shot in Alberta, this love letter to gory, B-movie horror has been making its way across the Canadian festival circuit, with screenings at the Edmonton International Film Festival and Toronto After

Rio Grind Film Festival: After Blue (Dirty Paradise)

The Rio Theatre‘s annual Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with French filmmaker Bernard Mandico‘s AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE), following screenings at festivals around the world including in the fabled Midnight Madness lineup at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno (winner, FIPRESCI Prize), Sitges Fantastic

Rio Grind Film Festival 2021: King Car

The Rio Theatre‘s annual Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Friday, November 26 with Brazilian filmmaker Renata Pinheiro’s sci-fi thriller KING CAR, which has been a hit at festivals around the world including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, and Fantastic Fest in

The Feast

Set against the backdrop of Wales’ lush mountainside, director Lee Haven Jones‘ Welsh language folk horror fantasy THE FEAST follows an affluent family as they gathers at their lavish home, made of glass and steel. The matriarch is having a dinner party, which includes hosting a local businessman and neighboring

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME is a dazzling, worthy tribute to Vonnegut and a compelling introduction for the uninitiated. The feature documentary — the first of its kind on Vonnegut — is a deep, immersive dive into the author’s upbringing and his creative output. It spans his childhood in Indianapolis,

About The Rio

Voted the #1 Independent Theatre in Vancouver, the Rio Theatre is a multimedia venue featuring arthouse, mainstream and cult-classic cinemas as well as live entertainment. Built in 1938, the Rio has been fully restored with a state of the art digital projector, surround sound, a huge stage and 420 luxurious seats.

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