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The penultimate double bill Category H’s late night summer season Goth Films Or Films Of Interest To Goths is REVENGE OF THE SEQUELS: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET III: DREAM WARRIORS X HELLRAISER II. Goth Films Or Films Of Interest To Goths was built from a list of films discovered in the Rio’s archive, organised under the same name. The list had over 50 films on it, and an abundance of them were se...

Florence (Corinne Marchand), more popularly known as Cléo Victorie, is a young singer living a life of luxury in Paris. From the hours of 5pm to 6:30pm, she anxiously wanders, awaiting the results of a biopsy that may confirm a diagnosis of stomach cancer. Our Varda Film Club is back with its second screening, this time screening the iconic ‘Cléo from 5 to 7’, a film that was entered into the 196...

Save your pennies, break the piggy bank, this month we’re heading to the Arcade. As you travel through vinyl plastered monoliths, and crudely moulded simulacrum, each dedicated to its own commercial deity (read: franchise) your eye is caught one at a time by 3 particularly horrifying sights. One by one you’ll waste this month's pocket money on the: • Silent Hill Arcade Booth, with its full swampy...

The Rio Feminist Film Programming Group x Corrina Antrobus presents a 25th anniversary screening of LOVE AND BASKETBALL. Rightly featured within the 100 films featured in author and critic Corrina Antrobus’s book I Love Romcoms and I’m a Feminist, come celebrate Gina Prince Bythewood’s debut as an exquisite celebration of Black love. Corrina Antrobus will be in conversation with Selina Roberts...

The All Out of Bubblegum Film Club presents GOODFELLAS, the legendary 1990 gangster classic. As explosive as a shotgun this is the thrilling and sickening tale of Henry Hill, local boy turned mobster. Come and enjoy Martin Scorsese's cinematic onslaught of crime, action and really sharp suits served up with thick slices of dark humour and quotable lines. Perfect for anyone who always wanted to be...

Doc ‘n Roll presents the London Premiere of GAMA BOMB - SURVIVAL OF THE FASTEST, followed by a Q&A with director Kyran Acharya and band members Chris Willliamson and JR. When they hit the Billboard charts, cult Irish thrash band Gama Bomb were trapped by lockdowns, missing a drummer, and unable to tour. SURVIVAL OF THE FASTEST is a new take on classic music documentaries like ANVIL or SPINAL TAP...

Underscore Cinema returns for its second edition — a bold and proudly grassroots short film festival that champions working-class filmmakers across the UK. Presented by Underscore Studios and supported by the BFI. This a one-day event is a celebration of radical, heartfelt, and boundary-pushing cinema from working-class voices, featuring a Panel discussion with the creators themselves. Underscor...

This September, escape to the streets of post-war Rome with the timeless charm of ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953), a sparkling romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Hepburn plays a sheltered princess who sneaks away from her royal duties for a day of freedom, only to meet an American journalist with secrets of his own. As they explore the Eternal City together on a borrowed Vespa, the p...

This October, experience Alfred Hitchcock’s haunting masterpiece VERTIGO (1958), a psychological thriller that has captivated audiences for decades. James Stewart stars as a retired detective grappling with a fear of heights and an obsession that blurs the line between reality and illusion. When he's hired to follow a mysterious woman (Kim Novak), what begins as a routine investigation quickly s...

This November, revisit the quiet power of THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993), a poignant drama featuring utterly masterful performances from Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Set against the backdrop of a grand English estate between the wars, the film follows a devoted butler whose loyalty to duty comes at a personal cost. As he reflects on missed chances and unspoken feelings, this elegantly craft...

A masterpiece for the whole family and a universal classic for all generations. Uniting the unique vision of Studio Ghibl's Hayao Miyazaki with a feel-good tale of childlike wonder and true originality. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO is an elegy to two miracles: the fairytale world of childhood and the disappearing countryside. While their mother recovers from an illness, Satsuki and her little sister Mei...

For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers—In this latest animated tale from Pixar the universe calls back! This cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. So, when he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio’s all in for th...

A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, LILO & STITCH is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Experiment 626, known affectionately as Stitch, is an illegally created genetic mutation. It’s also an indestructible being whose chaotic tendencies have seen it exiled to Earth by the United Galac...

The Oscar winning SPIRITED AWAY, from Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki is a thrilling and enchanting animated adventure for adults and children alike. and quite unlike any other. Chihiro, a headstrong 10-year-old girl, is unhappy that her family are moving house and that she will have to make new friends. As they make their way to the new home, Chihiro’s father takes a detour to explore ...

Pink Palace presents the fabulous Avant Drag! In its first London screening since its debut at Raindance Film Fest last year. This event includes an intro and post screening Q&A with Fiovos Dousos, the writer of Avant Drag! Avant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia an...

Pink Palace presents the first in our summer season of Almodovar queer classics. Live Flesh is a dark and sensuous thriller, a move away from the lighter comedies that he was known for at the time and a huge commercial hit, based on a story by Ruth Rendell. Victor is a child of Franco's Spain, born on a bus that was taking his mother, a prostitute, to the hospital. In spite of this start, life ...

Pink Palace presents a rarely seen gem, possibly the campest film you will ever see… A failing, long-running daytime soap opera titled The Sun Also Sets is going through creative upheaval. Supporting actress Montana Moorehead (Kathy Moriarty) has her sights set on the lead spot, currently occupied by longtime star Celeste Talbert (Sally Field). Montana, aided by producer David Barnes (Robert Down...

Pink Palace presents a fascinating look at the woman who revolutionised high street fashion in the 70’s Barbara Hulanicki. Barbara Hulanicki will always be remembered for BIBA, the shop that changed the face of UK fashion in the 1960s and 70s. A phenomenon in the truest sense of the word, BIBA would leave an indelible mark on the minds and wardrobes of the customers who ventured through its doors...

A masterpiece for the whole family and a universal classic for all generations. Uniting the unique vision of Studio Ghibl's Hayao Miyazaki with a feel-good tale of childlike wonder and true originality. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO is an elegy to two miracles: the fairytale world of childhood and the disappearing countryside. While their mother recovers from an illness, Satsuki and her little sister Mei...

For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers—In this latest animated tale from Pixar the universe calls back! This cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. So, when he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio’s all in for th...

A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, LILO & STITCH is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Experiment 626, known affectionately as Stitch, is an illegally created genetic mutation. It’s also an indestructible being whose chaotic tendencies have seen it exiled to Earth by the United Galac...

The Oscar winning SPIRITED AWAY, from Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki is a thrilling and enchanting animated adventure for adults and children alike. and quite unlike any other. Chihiro, a headstrong 10-year-old girl, is unhappy that her family are moving house and that she will have to make new friends. As they make their way to the new home, Chihiro’s father takes a detour to explore ...

Stamp collecting has never been more engrossing, entertaining, and constantly surprising than in this brilliantly constructed Argentinian thriller now celebrating its 25th Birthday with a gorgeous 4K Restoration. Small-time swindlers Juan and Marcos hit the big time when by chance they become involved in a half a million-dollar racket involving rare stamps – the ‘Nine Queens’. But when deceit i...

Days became weeks, became years…and now it’s time for a new apocalyptic vision as Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Jack O’Connell and Ralph Fiennes fight for survival in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 28 YEARS LATER. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst...

Visionary filmmaker Wes Anderson continues his gloriously subversive path of cinematic mainstream destruction with a poignant tale of love and regret, espionage and intrigue, and the power of second chances. Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe has survived six plane crashes and fathered nine sons and one daughter – a nun- whom he appoints as the sole heir to his estate. As Korda embar...

A distinctive and imaginative take on the traditional historical saga from Athena Rachel Tsangari – one of Greece’s ‘Weird Wave’ filmmakers alongside Yorgos Lanthimos – HARVEST creates an abstract sense of the past in a story steeped in folk horror but with all the paranoia, misogyny and avarice of modern times still recognisable. Set over seven hallucinatory days in a village with no name, in ...

This refreshingly anarchic, darkly strange, and absurdist look at male bonding and the breakdown of a relationship is also the funniest American comedy in years. When an errant delivery pulls suburban dad Craig Waterman into the orbit of his mysterious and charismatic new neighbour Austin Carmichael, a sweet bromance appears to blossom over an innocent evening of urban exploration, punk rock, and ...

Dying is one thing, but Life is the real difficulty in this surprising, shape-shifting, multi-award winning epic dramedy which may be called DYING , but is more of a celebration of the messiness of life as it delves into the twisted dynamics of a highly dysfunctional family. The Lunies family haven’t been close for a long time. Lissy is quietly happy that her husband Gerd has dementia and has t...