The Rio’s monthly Classic Matinees are FREE for anyone aged over 60 and take place on the first or second Wednesday of the month. There is an interval for every film, and extra seating in the foyer. Come along and enjoy a film, a cup of tea and a chat!

• Wed 12 Apr 2.30

JUST LIKE HEAVEN (PG)

(US 2005) dir.Mark Waters 95m.
Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Spybey, Ben Shenkman, Jon Heder, Ivana Milicevic, Rosalind Chao, Ron Canada.

“Crossing the life-death divide, Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are a winning pair in this smart and tender comedy. A gifted doctor, Elizabeth spends her waking hours at the San Francisco hospital where she has just been hired as attending physician, to the bitter disappointment of competing colleague Brett (Ben Shenkman). On a rainy night, she tears herself away from her 26-hour ER shift to attend a dinner party where her sister Abby (Dina Waters) is setting her up with a nice guy. A head-on collision with a truck keeps Elizabeth from making her date. David (Ruffalo, terrifically funny and vulnerable), the sad sack who sublets the apartment Elizabeth left behind, is more impressed with the comfortable couch than the flat's sweeping views and rooftop access. Elizabeth promptly shows up to scold him about rings on the coffee table. She disappears as mysteriously as she arrives, but she keeps returning – and with an apartment like that, who can blame her? Waters orchestrates the material with an emphasis on character, keeping FX to an admirable minimum. A film full of heart.”
(Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter)

Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions & Under 15's/free for Over 60's & Carers

• Wed 10 May 2.30

THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN (12A)

(New zealand/US 2005) dir.Roger Donaldson 127m.
Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Cauffiel, Saginaw Grant, Diane Ladd, Christopher Lawford, Aaron Murphy, Paul Rodriguez.

“Proof that obsession can be contagious comes with THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN, an affectionate portrait of a real-life Kiwi record breaker that took director Roger Donaldson 30 years to bring to the screen. Its subject is Herbert J 'Burt' Munro, a plucky pensioner who repeatedly broke the world land-speed record in the 60s on his modified Indian Scout motorbike. As played by Anthony Hopkins, he emerges as a likeable eccentric. Punctuated by comical encounters with assorted misfits and a romantic sojourn with a lonely widow, the journey is eventful enough. But it's only after Burt reaches his destination that Donaldson's film finally gathers momentum and delivers the kind of adrenaline charge its title so tantalisingly promises. Still, Hopkins' relaxed and untypically jolly performance makes the wait worthwhile in an unabashedly retro affair that's less of a conventional biopic than a fully-fledged love letter.” (Neil Smith, BBCi Films)

N.B. With a 15 min interval

Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions & Under 15's/free for Over 60's & Carers