The Parents and Babies Club gives parents with babies a chance to visit the cinema, without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing a disturbance. The auditorium is lighter than usual, and there is a secure space for pushchairs. The Club is exclusively for parents with babies under one year old. Membership is free but you do need to sign up and receive a membership card to come to these screenings. You may join on the day, or email us: jemma@riocinema.org.uk with your name, address, contact telephone number, your baby's name and date of birth. Tickets are at the normal matinee price of £6 and £5 Concessions.

• Thur 9 Apr 11.15am

VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (12A)

(Spain/US 2008) dir. Woody Allen 96m.
Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson.

When two American girlfriends take a summer holiday to Spain, they find themselves romantically entwined with the same painter – but they are about to meet more than their match in his fiery ex-wife, played to Oscar-winning perfection by Cruz. He may be leaving Manhattan behind, but this laugh-out-loud romp is certainly a return to fine form for Allen.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (15)

(Sweden 2008) dir. Tomas Alfredson 114m. Digital. Subtitles.
Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord.

Extraordinary, original, powerful and hypnotic LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is a gentle story of friendship, adolescence... and the curse of vampiric immortality. Oskar, a brutally bullied schoolboy, finds his soulmate in Eli, a beautiful but mysterious girl. Together they bond while the world around them quickly spirals out of control. Set against the beautifully atmospheric background of a dark Swedish winter, the supernatural is always bubbling under the surface of this mysterious tale but its heart lays in the emotional depths of the relationship between Oskar and Eli. Terrifying and endearing, often at the same moment, this is one of the most persuasive and haunting movie experiences of the year.

• Tue 21 Apr 12.45pm

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (15)

(Sweden 2008) dir. Tomas Alfredson 114m. Digital. Subtitles.
Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord.

• Thur 23 Apr 1.00pm

WENDY AND LUCY (15)

(US 2008) dir. Kelly Reichardt 80m. Digital.
Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson.

Michelle Williams shines in this absorbing drama about outsider Wendy, headed for Alaska but stranded in Oregon after her car breaks down. When beloved dog Lucy goes missing, Wendy endeavours to find her, encountering the strange inhabitants of America's nowheresville in her search. Acclaimed at the Cannes, New York and London film festivals, this assures Reichardt's status as one of the U.S's leading indie auteurs.

• Tue 28 Apr 12.45pm

IN THE LOOP (15)

(UK, 2009) dir. Armando Iannucci 106m. Digital.
Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rashe, Gina McKee, Chris Addison, Anna Chulmsky, Mimi Kennedy.

A very welcome big screen debut for the talents of Armando Iannucci, creator, co-writer, producer of such modern comedy landmarks as news parody The Day Today and political satire The Thick of It. The latter is the jumping off point for this look at the ‘special relationship’ between the UK and US in the run-up to a proposed war in an unnamed Middle-Eastern country. Mistakes, misunderstandings and blunders ensure plot complexities abound as Iannucci presents a humorous, acerbic observation on contemporary political spin. Peter Capaldi returns as the unforgettable Malcolm Tucker, still in scatalogical overdrive and perfectly embodying the movie's exuberant and boundless laugh-out-loud cynicism.

• Thur 30 Apr 12.45pm

IN THE LOOP (15)

(UK, 2009) dir. Armando Iannucci 106m. Digital.
Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rashe, Gina McKee, Chris Addison, Anna Chulmsky, Mimi Kennedy.

• Tue 5 May 12.30pm

CHE: PART ONE (15)

(France/Spain/US 2008) dir. Steven Soderbergh 126m. Digital.
Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Elvira Mínguez, Jorge Perugorría.

On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sailed to Cuba with a rebel force determined to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of President Batista. One of those rebels would become a symbol of struggle and hope, an iconic figure recognisable worldwide and a legend: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. The first part of Steven Soderbergh's powerful and incisive chronicle interweaves narratives of the Argentinian doctor's early years, from his life-changing meeting with Fidel Castro in Mexico to the jungles and hills of Cuba as the fight approaches Havana. Winner of the Best Actor award at Cannes, Benicio Del Toro gives a truly spellbinding performance as the idealist who became a revolutionary hero and an inspiration.

• Thur 7 May 12.30pm

CHE: PART TWO (15)

(Spain/France/US 2008) dir. Steven Soderbergh 131m. Digital.
Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Joaquim de Almeida.

Benicio Del Toro masterfully reprises his role as revolutionary Guevara in this, the darker half of Soderbergh's superb biopic. Following the Cuban Revolution, Che disappears at the height of his fame and power, re-emerging in Bolivia as he attempts to bring his ideas of freedom to the rest of Latin America. But unable to drum up the levels of support that led to success in Cuba the attempt fails, bringing forth Che's downfall. This is a much more painful tale of determination and sacrifice, bringing Che's story and life to a close but offering an understanding of his legacy, and why he became, and remains, a symbol of idealism to millions around the world.

• Tue 12 May 1.00pm

NOTORIOUS (U)

(US 1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock 101m.
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen.

The Master of Suspense at his multi-layered best with a clash of love and duty as Bergman, daughter of a convicted spy, is coerced into a little post-war espionage in South America by agent Cary Grant. With some classic set pieces, this is one of Hitchcock's greatest, and most delightful, pieces of pure cinema.

• Thur 14 May 1.00pm

CHÉRI (15)

(UK 2009) dir. Stephen Frears 97m. Digital.
Rupert Friend, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Frances Tomelty.

In a game of seduction, never fall in love. Twenty years after DANGEROUS
LIAISONS, director Stephen Frears, writer Christopher Hampton and star Michelle Pfeiffer are reunited for a further tale of sexual duplicity. Set in 1920s Paris and based on a novel by the scandalous Colette, CHéRI is the story of the end of a six-year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa (Pfieffer) and the pampered young man, Chéri (Friend) who has received his adult education from her. However, it is Chéri not Léa who wears the silk pajamas and pearls, and who is the object of attention. Sexual stereotypes are explored and overturned when he's forced to marry a wealthy young woman and the threesome set out to explore uncharted territory.

• Tue 19 May 1.00pm

CHÉRI (15)

(UK 2009) dir. Stephen Frears 97m. Digital.
Rupert Friend, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Frances Tomelty.

• Thur 21 May 12.30pm

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (15)

(US 2008) dir. Charlie Kaufman 124m.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianna Wiest.

From Charlie Kaufman, the writer of ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND and BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, comes a new collection of imaginative idiosyncracies set in the blury world between fantasy and reality. Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a writer much troubled in both his personal and professional lives. When a sizable financial grant falls into Caden's lap, he takes up the challenge to create a massive theatrical production, assuming control of a cavernous warehouse to erect a replica of New York City, and a mirror image of his life that will elude the cruel realities of love and death. A dream cast of independent cinema all stars, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emily Watson and Samantha Morton as Caden's lifelong object of desire, bring Kaufman's eccentricities into focus.

• Thur 28 May 10.30am

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (15)

(US 2008) dir. Charlie Kaufman 124m.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianna Wiest.

• Tue 2 Jun 1.00pm

THE AGE OF STUPID (12A)

(UK 2009) dir. Fanny Armstrong 92m.
Pete Postlethwaite.

Pete Postlethwaite plays the only fictional character in this fascinating study of climate change set in the devastated world of 2055. As ‘The Archivist’, the last man on earth, he takes the audience through his salvaged news clips and interviews from the early 21st Century asking ‘why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?’. A passionate, urgent, and often terrifying documentary of what could be.

• Thur 4 Jun 12.30pm

THE GIRL CUT IN TWO (15)

(Germany/France 2007) dir. Claude Chabrol 115m. Subtitles. Digital.
Ludivigne Sagnier, Benoit Magimel, Francois Berleand, Mathilda May, Caroline Silhol, Marie Bunel, Valeria Cavalli.

For fifty years Claude Chabrol has been the master of the tense, razor-sharp and darkly seductive disection of the seedier side of the French bourgeoisie. His 51st film is fine vintage Chabrol: beautifully plotted, effortlesly free-flowing and fiendishly entertaining. Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior (Francois Berléand), and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor (Benoit Magimel). An unspoken past between the two men heightens tensions that must lead to a shocking clash of violence and passion. A rich, textured divertissement from a master of his art.