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 £7 and £5.50 Concessions.

• TUE 8 Feb 12.45

BRIGHTON ROCK (15)

(UK 2010) dir. Rowan Joffe 111m. Digital.
Sam Riley, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Andy Serkis, Andrea Riseborough, Steven Robertson.

The second screen adaptation of Graham Greene's iconic 1939 novel updates the story of razor-wielding teenager Pinkie Brown, hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organised crime, to 1964, the year in which seafront battles between mods and rockers were hitting the headlines along the South Coast. When young waitress Rose becomes innocently involved in a gang revenge killing, she also becomes involved with Pinkie determined to ensure her silence by any means possible. With a powerful performance from Sam Riley, a beautiful and delicately etched one from Andrea Riseborough and with solid support from Helen Mirren and John Hurt, Rowan Joffe's first feature captures the essence of Greene's timeless masterpiece.

THUR 10 Feb 12.45

BRIGHTON ROCK (15)

(UK 2010) dir. Rowan Joffe 111m. Digital.
Sam Riley, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Andy Serkis, Andrea Riseborough, Steven Robertson.

TUE 15 Feb 12.45

TRUE GRIT (15)

(US 2010) dirs. Ethan & Joel Coen 110m. Digital.
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfield, Barry Pepper.

A Coen brothers adaptation of a Charles Portis novel was inevitable. Portis has been variously described as "the Arkansas Chekhov," America's "least-known great novelist" and "like Cormac McCarthy, but funny." Perversity, dark humour and a little blood letting in bleak landscapes have pervaded the Coen's best work from BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO to NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, so their adaptation of TRUE GRIT is inevitably closer to the tone of the original novel than the 1969 Hollywood version. The bleak statement "I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Forth Smith, Arkansas" begins the story of Mattie Ross who sets out to avenge her father's killer by hiring aging US Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (Bridges). Also along for the ride is Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Damon), who has his own reasons for wanting to track down Chaney. The unlikely trio soon find themselves swept up in the kind of ingenious, imaginative and wholly original trouble that only the Coens could devise and deliver.

THUR 17 Feb 12.45

TRUE GRIT (15)

(US 2010) dirs. Ethan & Joel Coen 110m. Digital.
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfield, Barry Pepper.

A Coen brothers adaptation of a Charles Portis novel was inevitable. Portis has been variously described as "the Arkansas Chekhov," America's "least-known great novelist" and "like Cormac McCarthy, but funny." Perversity, dark humour and a little blood letting in bleak landscapes have pervaded the Coen's best work from BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO to NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, so their adaptation of TRUE GRIT is inevitably closer to the tone of the original novel than the 1969 Hollywood version. The bleak statement "I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Forth Smith, Arkansas" begins the story of Mattie Ross who sets out to avenge her father's killer by hiring aging US Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (Bridges). Also along for the ride is Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Damon), who has his own reasons for wanting to track down Chaney. The unlikely trio soon find themselves swept up in the kind of ingenious, imaginative and wholly original trouble that only the Coens could devise and deliver.

TUE 1 Mar 12.45

ANIMAL KINGDOM (15)

(Australia 2010) dir. David Michôd 113m. Digital.
Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Dan Wyllie.

An outstanding achievement that injects new life into the crime family movie thriller genre, David Michôd's debut feature is a stunning, surprising and complex film about life, love and loyalty, or the lack of. After the death of his mother young Joshua 'J' Cody' finds shelter with his grandmother and his uncles, a gang of professional Melbourne criminals. There is a hierarchy amongst the uncles but as violence permeates the family and a police detective (Guy Pearce) tries to befriend the boy, J begins to realise where the power really lies. Jacki Weaver's Oscar nominated performance as Grandma Janine oozes ever more scary amounts of sweetness and love but the standout is Ben Mendelsohn as the eldest brother, Pope, whose quiet and calculating demeanour barely conceals his demented, unhinged rage. Like the movie itself, his actions slowly bubble from simmering tension to explosive boiling point. Original and terrific movie-making.

THUR 3 Mar 12.45

ANIMAL KINGDOM (15)

(Australia 2010) dir. David Michôd 113m. Digital.
Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Dan Wyllie.

TUE 8 Mar 12.45

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (15)

(US 2010) dir. Lisa Cholodenko 106m. Digital.
Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutchinson.

Mid-life crisis with a twist. Lesbian couple Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for nearly 20 years and have two teenage kids by artificial insemination. Now the kids want to meet their biological father... The anonymous donor turns out to be Paul (Mark Ruffalo) a laid-back entrepreneur and organic gardening enthusiast. The belated family reunion with all its new relationships, is never less than surprising. Moore, Bening and Ruffalo all deliver endearingly quirky comic performances and with snappy, realistic dialogue and a nonchalantly breezy script by director Lisa Cholodenko and co-writer Stuart Blumberg, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT is an intelligent, thoughtful and warm comedy of modern life.

THUR 10 Mar 12.30

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (12A)

(US 2010) dir. David Fincher 120m. Digital.
Jessie Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Joseph Mazzello.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK: modern success story or modern tragedy? Computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg created the global social network phenomenon Facebook at the age of 22 and went from Harvard student to billionaire in less than a year. But of course, you don't get to make 500 million friends without making a few enemies... Based on Ben Mezrich's book 'The Accidental Billionaires', it's a story about greed, obsession and misplaced beliefs. With a superb screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, a top flight ensemble cast and David Fincher's dark and stylish direction, it's also unpredictable, funny, touching and sad.

TUE 15 Mar 1.00

Birds Eye View Film Festival presents

MOTHER OF MANY (PG)

(UK 2009) dir. Emma Lazenby 6m. Digital.

This charming BAFTA-winning short follows the life and daily dedication of a midwife, combining beautiful paint-on-glass and hand-drawn animation with recordings of actual foetal heartbeats.

+ GUILTY PLEASURES (PG)

(UK 2010) dir. Julie Moggan 85m. Digital.

A Mills & Boon novel is sold somewhere in the world every four seconds. GUILTY PLEASURES crosses continents to probe this fantasy world of seductive mistresses and available billionaires: from middle-aged author Roger (pen-name 'Gill Sanderson') to feisty Indian princess Shumita (off to re-ignite an old flame) and hunky American model Stephen (dust jacket cover star but unlucky in love). Britdoc Best Pitch 2009 winner, this is an affectionate, uplifting and often laugh-out-loud celebration of the search for true love.

THUR 17 Mar 11.45am

NORWEGIAN WOOD (15)

(Japan 2010) dir. Anh Hung Tran 133m. Digital.
Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Tetsuji Tamayama.

Isn't it good, Norwegian Wood? A beautiful and sensuous adaptation of Haruki Murakami's beguiling and most widely-read novel of longing, loss and sexual curiosity set against the background of student unrest in 1960s Tokyo. It's the story of Watanabe and his relationship with two different women – the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko and the outgoing lively Midori. Haunted by one, ardently pursued by the other, the young student drifts along on a tide of emotional and erotic confusion until it becomes clear that he must choose between between past regret and future hope. With some outstanding performances, superb cinematography by Mark Lee Ping Bin (cameraman on Wong Kar Wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE) and a sensitive score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, NORWEGIAN WOOD is an absorbing and beautifully filmed adaptation of a modern classic.

TUE 22 Mar 1.00

SUBMARINE (15)

(UK/US 2010) dir. Richard Ayoade 97m. Digital.
Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylore, Gemma Chan, Yasmin Paige, Craig Roberts.

The directorial debut of The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade is a brilliantly amusing indie gem that has proved to be a popular hit on the festival circuit. 15 year old Oliver Tate is a quirky, awkward teenager living in Wales. As he falls in love with his just-as-odd classmate, he has simultaneously given himself the task of rescuing his own parent's ever-deteriorating marriage. The juxtaposition of these two storylines delivers a coming of age story that avoids all the traditional clichés. Clever, charming, funny, and touching, SUBMARINE heralds the arrival of a major new talent in British cinema.

THUR 24 Mar 1.00

SUBMARINE (15)

(UK/US 2010) dir. Richard Ayoade 97m. Digital.
Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylore, Gemma Chan, Yasmin Paige, Craig Roberts.

TUE 29 Mar 12.45

ROUTE IRISH (15)

(UK 2010) dir. Ken Loach. 109m. Digital.
Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop, Geoff Bell.

There's an intriguing mystery at the heart of Ken Loach's Liverpool-set movie and its unravelling is an explosive mix of the political and the personal. Fergus (Mark Womack) is trying to come to terms with the death of childhood friend Frankie (John Bishop) and becoming deeply suspicious of how his friend came to be blown up on Route Irish, the infamous road that links Baghdad's Green Zone with the city's airport, whilst working for a private contract security firm. The strange relationship, part sexual, part familial, between Fergus and Frankie's girlfriend, Rachel (Andrea Lowe) offers another level of intrigue to be resolved. Womack is superb as the complex contradictory ex-soldier, the mood is angry but focussed and the film is a powerful, vivid and necessary search for truth in a murky world and one that also brings close to home the consequences of a once remote dirty foreign war.

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ROUTE IRISH (15)

(UK 2010) dir. Ken Loach. 109m. Digital.
Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop, Geoff Bell.