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: sara@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 £7.50 and £6.00 Concessions.

• THUR 7 Jun 10.00am

PROMETHEUS 2D (15)

(US 2012) dir. Ridley Scott. 124m. Digital.
Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Charlise Theron.

In late 8th Century BC Greek mythology Prometheus was the god entrusted with the task of moulding mankind out of clay. His attempts to better the lives of his creation brought him into direct conflict with Zeus, King of the Gods, who punished his misdeeds by ordering the creation of Pandora, the first woman, as a means of delivering misfortune to mankind. In the second decade of the 21st Century AD, Ridley Scott, director of ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER, creates a modern mythology that tells of the crew of the spaceship Prometheus, their journey to the darkest corners of the universe wherein lie the origins of mankind on Earth, and the desperate battle to ensure the future of the human race. Actually filmed in 3D, rather than re-processed subsequently, PROMETHEUS could well be the cinema event of the year. Certainly no other movie will be featuring Noomi Rapace as a space archaeologist and Michael Fassbender as an advanced android designed to be indistinguishable from humans. Dream on.

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• TUE 12 Jun 1.00

PROMETHEUS 2D (15)

(US 2012) dir. Ridley Scott. 124m. Digital.
Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Charlise Theron.

• THUR 14 Jun 12.45

TINY FURNITURE (15)

(US 2010) dir. Lena Dunham. 100m.
Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Jemima Kirke.

A now almost legendary first feature that was heaped with critical praise and spotlighted a DIY strain of American independent filmmaking that has become known as Mumblecore. It's a refreshing and sharply observed comedy of life at the crossroads with writer-director Lena Dunham playing the recent graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her (real-life) mother and sister. In a movie that is as painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, her performance wonderfully registers every shade of perplexity, pride and pain.

• TUE 19 Jun 12.45

COSMOPOLIS (15)

(Canada 2012) dir. David Cronenberg. 108m. Digital.
Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mathieu Almaric, Samantha Morton.

David Cronenberg and Don DeLillo's much praised novel were seemingly made for each other. New York City in the not-too-distant-future: Eric Packer, 28 year-old golden boy billionaire of the financial world is chauffeured across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut. He dreams of living in an advanced future civilization but as threats from both the real world - jams, encounters and accidents - and images conjured up by his ever-growing paranoia - presidents, assassins, ex-wives and rioters, Eric begins to piece together clues that lead him to a conclusion even more terrifying than any impending financial meltdown. The director of CRASH and NAKED LUNCH is clearly revisiting subjects that have always fascinated him: things organic and psychological that are inextricably intertwined, society's anxieties and phobias, and the consequences of repressed impulses and paranoia let free to run wild. With some inspired casting, not least Robert Pattinson as Eric, and much brilliant photography and design COSMOPOLIS is a controversial but hauntingly prophetic fable from a master film maker

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• THUR 21 Jun 12.45

COSMOPOLIS (15)

(Canada 2012) dir. David Cronenberg. 108m. Digital.
Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mathieu Almaric, Samantha Morton.

• TUE 26 Jun 1.15

THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH (15)

(France/Poland/UK 2011) dir. Pawel Pawlikowski 84m. Subtitles. Digital.
Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig, Samir Guesmi, Julie Papillon, Geoffrey Carey.

An intricate and intelligent adaptation of Douglas Kennedy's erotic thriller in which writer Ethan Hawke heads for Paris to try to make sense of his life and find his estranged wife and daughter. A meeting with mysterious émigré Kristin Scott Thomas seems to promise the new life that he seeks, but events soon take a surreal downturn into murder and mayhem. Director Pawel Pawlikowski builds the tension and menace to deliver a taut and sensual thriller that questions the boundaries of imagination and reality.

• THUR 28 Jun 1.00

HEADHUNTERS (15)

(Norway/Germany 2011) dir. Morten Tyldum 100m. Subtitles. Digital.
Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

An exhilarating adrenaline filled adaptation of Jo Nesbø's best-selling thriller in which a charming scoundrel goes from accomplished corporate headhunter to most hunted art collector after he encounters a former mercenary in possession of an extremely valuable painting. The plot twists and turns as a bloody cat-and-mouse game of increasingly perilous situations unfolds in strikingly real locations across Norway. It all adds up to an entertainingly believable labyrinth of double-crosses and deceptions topped off with some delightful visual shocks.

KILLER JOE (18)

(US 2011) dir.William Friedkin. 103m. Digital.
Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church.

The director of THE FRENCH CONNECTION and THE EXORCIST is back with an intoxicating pulp thriller that's a brazen and bloody blend of gallows humour and classic film noir. Emil Hirsch is the desperate young man who finds himself in debt to a drug baron and hires creepy, crazy Dallas cop (and part-time contract killer) Matthew McConaughey to carry out an an ill-conceived insurance scam involving his stepmother and sister. The twists and turns play out as a sort of contemporary fairy tale, albeit a very perverse one, and it all ends with a very satisfying (if controversial) bang. Full-frontal in every sense, KILLER JOE is an unabashed pulp romp of a movie with a collection of terrific performances of the blood-freezing kind that perfectly match William Friedkin's brilliant telling of writer Tracy Letts' horribly funny and twisted tale.

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• THUR 5 Jul 1.00

KILLER JOE (18)

(US 2011) dir.William Friedkin. 103m. Digital.
Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church.

• TUE 10 Jul 12.30

7 DAYS IN HAVANA (15)

(Spain-France 2012) dirs. Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noe, Juan Carlos Tabio & Laurent Cantet 128m. Subtitles. Digital.
Josh Hutcherson, Daniel Brühl, Emir Kusturica, Melissa Rivera, Elia Suleiman, Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra.

Seven days, seven stories, seven directors but just one subject: the vibrant and iconic capital of Cuba. A collection of some of cinema's most individual and acclaimed filmmakers combine to capture sights, sounds and lives with very diverse, but never less than fascinating, results. From the wild and crazy nights of visiting young American actor Josh Hutcherson pictured by Benicio del Toro to the Buster Keaton/Jacques Tati world of Elia Suleiman's ironic and humorous exploration of an upmarket hotel, there's never a dull moment and plenty of great music to keep things moving. Needless to say the most edgy contribution comes from ENTER THE VOID director Gaspar Noe with the story of a teenage girl caught in bed with a girlfriend and the exorcism which follows. But whatever the mood or perspective, 7 DAYS IN HAVANA, scripted by Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura, is a unique tour of a very different world.

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• THUR 12 Jul 1.15

DARK HORSE (15)

(US 2011) dir. Todd Solondz. 84m. Digital.
Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow, Christopher Walken.

Maverick director Todd Solondz continues his exploration of the darker side of suburban life but the mood here is a touch gentler than usual if certainly no less agonisingly hilarious. It brings together two of life's more dysfunctional thirty-somethings: Abe lives with his parents, works for his father (Christopher Walken) plays backgammon with his mother (Mia Farrow) and collects toys. Life, but not his adolescent fantasy personality, changes when he meets Miranda who has moved back in with her parents to recover from romantic and literary failure. Things develop but soon start to go horribly wrong. With some wonderfully funny and confounding twists along the way, DARK HORSE brilliantly captures the sheer awkwardness of human relationships with eloquence and poignancy.

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• TUE 17 Jul 1.15

TALES OF THE NIGHT 2D (PG)

(France 2011) dir. Michel Ocelot. 84m. Digital.

In an old rundown cinema, a small group of people gathers each night to tell seven magical and thrilling tales of adventure that feature kings, princesses and sorcerers. The creator of KIRIKOU and THE PRINCE'S QUEST's latest enchanting animated wonder is even more bewitching than it's predecessors.

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• THUR 19 Jul 1.00

DETACHMENT (15)

(US 2011) dir. Tony Kaye 98m. Digital.
Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Lucy Liu, James Caan.

Tony Kaye's DETACHMENT is a powerful, passionate and even occasionally surrealistic look at real life with a brilliant performance from Adrien Brody. He's Henry Barthes, a teacher at large in the New York school system with a true talent to connect with his students but it's a gift that Henry has chosen to bury. By spending his days as a substitute teacher, he conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form an attachment to either students or colleagues. When a new assignment places him at a school with a frustrated, burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, Henry's life begins to change as he begins to meet the challenges of both students and fellow teachers. With Brody's performance at the eye of the storm, it's an emotional hurricane of a journey that hits hard and, love it or hate it, you certainly won't ignore it.

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