Rio Theatre and Park Theatre Podcast! July 2026

Please join your hosts, Duncan and Darren as they highlight a few of the wonderful movies and events happening at Vancouver's fabulous Rio and Park Theatres for the month of July, 2026! Also check the websites for updates! Please enjoy responsibly. 

Theme music courtesy of Dear Rouge.

Recorded and engineered by Gregg Steffensen.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:11

Hello and welcome to the Rio Park Theater Podcast. Uh we are former video store employee and movie enthusiast Duncan Shields.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

And I'm Darren Gay, also a former, oh no, I guess I'm still a movie enthusiast. I'm a former video store owner. That's right. Yes. A place of business. Yes, Black Duck Video on Commercial Drive and Cambi Street.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

And what are we doing here today, Duncan? Well, we're going to talk about some of the cool things that are coming up this July to the Amazing Sister Theaters of the Park Theater on Cambian 18th and Rio Theater near Broadway End Commercial. And uh I thought we'd try a bit of a new format this time instead of just reading out the entire calendar of events. Uh whether we've heard of the names or not. Whether I decide I butchered them or not. We'll just uh pick stuff that uh jumps out at us from the upcoming calendar, uh recommendations, and then uh yeah, we'll go from there and see if we have some any that overlap. This is exciting because I don't know what you've picked and you don't know what I've picked, and so there's a little bit of uh electricity in the air, which I'm sure you I'm sure you can uh that or like incredible heat.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

It's so hot today. It's so hot today. Yeah. Do you want to uh kick it off with uh what you have uh in store?

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Indeed. Well, first off, Canada Day, uh July the 1st. It's a Canada movie fest. Uh we're having first off the uh National Film Board of Canada Animation Jamboree, which will have like, of course, hits like The Big Snit, Wildlife, Bob's Birthday, The Street, and a whole bunch of other classics. Oscar nominated, Oscar winning. It's gonna be fantastic. That's at 3:30 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

That's a great thing to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

And then at 7 p.m., we've got Nirvana the Band, the show, the movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Two lovable lugs out of Toronto, yeah, putting together this incredible movie that was the culmination of a couple of seasons of their TV show.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

You know, I I finally watched it last week. Oh, okay. I finally got around to Twitter. Oh, that's right, that's right. It's so much fun. Um funny, I did tell you the story, this funny story about uh how I got the Criterion DVD in the shop.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

I think you mentioned it, but yeah, please.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Yeah, so uh somebody I don't know where it came from, but I ended up with uh the Criterion label, which you know everyone knows what the Criterion label is.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

It's like a big deal.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Yeah, they you know they promote and you know sell like mostly foreign stuff and you know, yeah, like uh old stuff. And so this um movie called Nirvana the the band, the show came across and I didn't know what it was at all. Yeah, and I thought I thought maybe just some weird little uh uh movie that Criterion had found and put out, and yeah, and so I put it on the shelf for for rent, not knowing anything about it. Nobody rented it. I guess nobody around these parts knew what it was because it's more of a Toronto-based thing, I guess. Um, and then uh by the time we came up to to close the shop, uh coming up from four years ago, um, I said, Oh, we'll just sell it, you know. So I sold it, I think, for 10 bucks somebody bought it. Right. Yeah, and then uh and then the movie came out. Right. And uh I so I was somebody mentioned that it's really expensive to buy now. Oh yeah. So I went and checked it out on eBay. It goes for twelve hundred dollars. I know I sold it for ten or twenty bucks. Huge and I still don't even know what it was when it went when I sold it, so yeah, but uh they managed to make a great fun film out of out of this uh long-running uh uh idea that they have.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Yeah, and it it's cool because I know people that have seen it like without having seen the series and they love the movie. Yeah, so I I'm one. And if you've seen the series, it's even better, I guess, or it's also just as good. But uh it's really cool when somebody sees something without the backstory and loves it. Because I I wouldn't know, you know, I was like, well, does that wreck the yeah, you know, but it doesn't.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

No, not at all. I think they were smart and not having to to rely on yeah what had happened before to what's happening now because it's got a it's a funny time travel thing. If you're from Toronto or the or the Toronto uh region, I think you might even get a little bit more out of it too. For sure. There's lots of stuff, Toronto-based humor and and just locations like the Rivley and all that kind of stuff. It's yeah, yeah. Well while we're checking out and see with a crowd.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

Oh, yeah, so good with the crowd. Yeah, so good with a crowd. And then at 9 30 p.m., we've got Scott Pilgrim versus the World, a fantastic, fantastic movie uh with Michael Serra. Apparently the 15th anniversary.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Already.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Yes, I don't know how that happened. That came out a couple years ago. That seems to happen a lot. Yeah, that happens a lot.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

I don't approve of that.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

But that's a heck of a Canada Day on July the 1st. I agree, uh director that. Did you? He sure did, he sure did. Yeah, but the movie's a blast. Movie's a blast. And if you want to have if you've got nothing to do on Canada Day, this is a great way to spend it inside a nice cool theater. Yes. If it's a roasting day, uh please help yourself to the Rio Theater for the Canada Day Movie Fest. Help yourself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Yes, and then uh so my pick uh for uh uh I guess it's on the 3rd of um July, also at the Rio. They're doing the Raiders of Lost Art trilogy. I guess well, I guess there's more than three now, but the original, the original trigger.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Three in our hearts. Yes, exactly. Three in our hearts.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

Yeah, the first one obviously being the best, you know.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

Technically four. Yeah, I for me it's been all downhill since the first one.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Yeah, uh yeah, they're definitely descending.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

Uh it depends on when you see them. I know some people that think that uh Temple of Doom is the best one. And I I think it I think maybe I was 13 when Temple of Doom came out, but I was like, you know, 11 when uh Raiders came out, maybe or something like that. But I I just tipped over some sort of age threshold, so when I saw Temple of Doom, I was like, uh I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Did you see Raiders in the theater when it came out? I sure did. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

It blew my absolute mind.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Yeah, me too. Yeah, and and yeah, I I don't think I've seen it on the big screen since then.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Ooh, yeah, it's such a big screen experience.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Yeah, for sure. And you know, seeing it with a crowd, it's a it's a great crowd. Pleaser, as they like to call them. A pleaser. Yes. Uh what's your uh next pick?

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Well, uh that marathon there. Oh shoot, I don't have the prices down, but I think there's a CL3 for a certain price. It probably is.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Check the website and I'll uh they'll give you all the info there.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

Yeah, it's Raiders at 6.15, Temple of Doom at 830, Last Crusade at 1045. Skipping back in time on July the 2nd, we've got a fantastic double bill here of Tank Girl, the 4K Restoration. Uh, and we've got the director there, Rachel Taleley, in attendance for uh a QA. So it's Laurie Petty in this weird movie about how water is a dwindling resource and is controlled by horrible oligarchs. What? Just a bizarre premise, just a wild out there premise. Uh, but there's also a sentient half kangaroo played by Ice T, uh Bizarre, wonderful Gonzo movie, based on a fantastic comic book by Jamie Hewlett. That's at 6 30 p.m. And then at 9 30 is I Love Boosters, the latest from Boots Riley, which I'm super curious.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

Yeah, yeah, because I've really liked uh Sorry to Bother You. Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, and I hear this one is real as a lot of fun as well.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

Fantastic. Yeah, sorry to bother you as a king of left-turn movies. Yeah, I know. Halfway through, I was like, I don't know what I'm watching anymore. This is fantastic. Exactly. So this is good. Yeah, this is what Kiki Palmer, uh, Lakeith Stanfield, Demi Moore, making more wild choices. Oh. Don Cheadle, Adam Devine, and it's uh a shoplifter shoplifter ring stealing fashion empires clothes. Uh just like really expensive clothes, selling them at a cheaper price, like Robin Hood, but for but for clothes. Awesome. Fashion forward philanthropy.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

I'm really looking forward to this one. Yeah. And uh on the 4th of July. Donna. Yeah, is uh might be my all-time favorite movie. Really? Yeah. It's it's uh it's on my top four for sure. It's great. Yeah. Well, of course, we're talking about uh Steven Spielberg's 1975 scary, scary Jaws movie. Jaws, yeah. I remember I saw this at the drive-in in 1975. Wonderful. Yeah, I was 10. I went up with my my parents for some reason thought it'd be a great idea to take the family.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

What a horrible, horrible impulse.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Yeah, so it's ill-advised myself. I was 10, my sister was eight, and my brother was five. And I remember the drive-in, like we're like my parents were in the front seat, and we're all in the back seat of our big suburban truck thing. And uh, before the shark even attacked anybody, we were all on the front seat. This is the cameras going through the water with the music as I go, and it traumatized me for years.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

Sure, as as it did many a folk, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

I mean, like a couple years later, the movie The Deep came out. Yeah, and my parents oh, let's go see the deep. I go, Are you crazy? No, no, but I was like, I don't want to go see it, and I was like, I was so upset, and I was scouring the newspaper to see what else was playing, and it's like the Charlie Brown movie was playing. Can we go see that instead? But we went and saw the deep, and it wasn't very good, and it was very scary.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

It's got a great uh great death, Samuel L. Jackson, I think, who's given a speech and then he gets chomped. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

Yeah, but not a good movie, no, no, but uh yeah, and see Jaws in the big screen if you've never seen it. It's it's so good.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

And it's a late night, date night two for one there. So and it's a 4K restoration, 4K restoration, so it's gonna be incredible. Did you hear there was a uh someplace showed it on a screen next to a pond? Oh yeah, so everybody got like an inner tube or a flowation.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

I've heard of people doing this like in a pool and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Float in the water and watch Jaws, which I'm like, not a chance. No, I wouldn't do that.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Well, I'm also thinking the logistics of it, you're in a tube in the water for two hours, you're gonna be freaking cold. It'd be a little freezing.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

It's gotta be on a really hot day somewhere tropical. Yeah, and also, I don't know, well, like legally you'd open you're open to lawsuits, I think.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Yeah, tons of them, especially if there's drinking involved and whatnot.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

Okay, and then Monday, June the 6th, we've got a really weird little indie one that it looks really cool called Tracy and Martina going out west. It's a premiere. Uh, a couple of best friends from Cape Breton, who's never left Cape Breton, decide to go west and make it big in Fort McMurray, Edmonton and Calgary. But the money runs out. Oh no, and they have to somehow get back home. Uh Out 2026 says, if Barb and Starr were headed to the West Edmonton Mall instead of Vista del Mar, that's what this is about.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

I really like that Barb and Star movie. That was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Yeah, so the filmmakers, Justine Williamson, Greg Vardy, and Brendan Lyle will be there for intro and QA. Lovely. 6 30 p.m. on Monday, June the 6th. That's uh something local and Canadian to go support.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Um, my next pick, we're jumping way ahead to the 17th of July. Oh my. I believe it's a late night, probably a late night date show date night uh show. It's uh Sheldon Soccer.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

Oh, great one.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

Yeah, Stephen Chow. Stephen Chow. Yeah, if you like uh if you like martial arts and you like soccer, this is your film. The the Kung Fu Hustle movie, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

Yeah, this movie's a blast. Like the the special effects and it are like they're so funny and uh they're good. It's a good great characters, and it's the action, the whole thing is it's fun, like ta tip to tail. It's wonderful. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

If you if you get to see like Shaolin soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, I think those are two peak Steven Chows.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Yeah, for sure. And if you can't afford the thousand dollars to go see a World Cup game, go to the Rio and see this.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

Go to go to the Rio and see this. Yes. Um, and let's see here, skipping around in time, Friday, July the 10th. Late night uh show is the Blair Witch Project, right? In case you for some reason haven't seen it yet. Yeah. Well worth seeing on the big screen, unless you get motion sickness. Uh late night, date night, two for one.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Yeah, that's the problem. I I saw it when it came out, and I was personally I was a little underwhelmed by it because of that. Uh I sat too close to the screen.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Oh, well, that'd do it.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Yeah. But it's, you know, it's it's what it is. It's a classic horror film. Change the genre. Change the whole genre forever.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

There's a whole, yeah, it's like uh the the found footage genre was basically. And the whole ad campaign, too, of like, was is it a documentary? Yeah, it was brilliant. People were like, I I don't know. Are they did they find them? Are they missing? Like, was it made up?

SPEAKER_00 11:38

Did it happen I believe they uh they had the uh the cast like like sequestered or something like that for a couple weeks before the film was released. Okay. So they there's no contact with them to sort of drum up even more interest and whatnot.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Yeah, yeah, check that one out for sure.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

There's uh a really interesting show coming up on uh July the 12th called Cowgirls of Color.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

It's uh This ain't Texas, but we're bringing the magic of Stampede to Vancouver at the Rio Theater on Sunday, July 12th, with an all-star, all cast of color lineup. Vijay J. Labelle hosts an iconic lineup of Canada's drag race stars, including season six favorites Ebony Labelle and Karamilk. Get ready for the one and only Yang Bella from RuPaul's Drag Race UK, who will be making her Vancouver debut, plus local talent. Wang Ting Mwa and Michelangela. They're set to make an appearance too. That's at 8 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

So that's like a like a like a cowboy themed uh.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

Like a cowboy themed, cowperson themed, all uh performers of color doing yeah, well, country and western um uh routines.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

They're gonna be like live horses and bulls and stuff on stage. Like maybe bull fighting?

SPEAKER_02 12:45

I'm hoping there'll be a pantomime horse or two. I I hope so.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Maybe one of those electronic bulls that people have to ride and get thrown across the stage.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

I had a chance to go on one of those once, and I said I might actually die, so I'm not going to. Uh maybe one day. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. Maybe one day. Sure thing, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Yeah, the older we get, the chances are we're gonna do that.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Yeah, that's uh that's gonna be my uh my swan song. Yeah. Uh and then, yeah, speaking of FIFA, on July the 14th, 15th, 18th, and 19th, you can just go to the Rio and watch FIFA. Oh, they're showing the other the games there for free. Nice. You can just walk in, grab a beer in a nice cool theater, and see FIFA on the giant screen.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

That sounds great. That must be getting near the end of the tournament, too. It's probably gonna be like the last few games.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

There'll be like some big uh some big games, the big matches.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

Canada versus Argentina is in the final, I think. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

Really? I don't know. Well, Canada really creamed the competition there.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

They did, but uh yeah. Yeah, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

Chances are low.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Yeah, chances are low.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Um, but if you go to uh real theater.ca and and and reserve a ticket, you can go for free and see the game. That's a great idea. Yeah, real, really well worth doing. Yeah, I might just do it on the principle, just because I don't I don't really know who's playing the world is playing, and I don't care much for uh for you know soccer that much. Yeah, but uh to see it like that would be incredible.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

Yeah, that would be fun. Um that's that's all the picks I have personally for I got a couple more.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

Okay, let's hear them. Uh Thursday, July the 16th, Sue Foley's coming. She's a powerhouse blues singer, always an amazing time at 8 p.m. Usually sells out, so get your tickets early. Cool. Uh Monday, July the 20th, and Tuesday, July the 21st is is the Hedwig in the Angry Inch 25th anniversary tour uh with Cameron Mitchell. And I I I remember seeing this when it came out at the Edinburgh Film Fest just after Madeline Kahn had passed away, and there was a little nod to her because he did a QA afterwards. Uh there'll be a pre-show costume contest, a mini acoustic performance, and a QA uh from um from Cameron Mitchell. So he's gonna be there. He's gonna be there. Awesome. Uh and there's the prizes that they're giving out for the costume contest and everything else is the Crite, they're from the Criterion Collection. Oh, right, it's on Criterion there. And they're they're from the Punk Rock Museum. Tuesday's sold out, so they added a second show on Monday. So don't miss out. It's gonna be absolutely huge. It's gonna be absolutely huge. And if you haven't seen the movie, like I'm one, I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

It's great stuff. Yeah, I've heard I've heard none of the good things. I don't know why I haven't seen it. Just one of those ones, you know.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Yeah. There's too many. There are many. Yes, I'm trying to go through all the ones that I should have seen by now. Uh, Thursday, July the 30th is the Cirque du Sleigh, uh, a queer circus spectacle. Cirque du Slay is a play on words. Uh I get it. Uh huge success that always sells out, produced by the incredibly hardworking April O'Peal. And on Friday, July the 31st is Dandy's Big Gay Cabaret. Nice. Kicking off Pride Week, interactive comedy uh with Dandy, who's an incredible host. And it's giant this this foppish, uh, you know, seven foot-tall um, you know, uh Victorian gentleman. There'll be a heated, a heated rivalry look-alike competition, and the vibe uh is party bus, whatever that means.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

So it's up to interpretation, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

It's gonna be off the chain. That's at 8 p.m. on July the theory.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Yeah, that's gonna be a blast.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Yeah. But yeah, those are my picks for the Rio that's coming up. What do we got going on over at the park? At the park theater. Saturday, July the 4th. There's a thematic double bill going on.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Does it have anything to do with America?

SPEAKER_02 16:11

It does have a lot to do with America and fast jets.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Oh. I'm gonna guess it might be some sort of Top Gunnish thingy. People with nicknames.

SPEAKER_02 16:21

It might even be Top Gun itself.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

People with nicknames.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

My nickname's Maverick, and I am a Maverick. Uh so yeah, Saturday, July the 4th. Now, I don't like saying this out loud, but I'm gonna do it anyway. It's the 40th anniversary of Top Gun. Yeah, so that's a 345, and then Top Gun. Maverick at 6 p.m. And the screenwriter, Justin Marks, will be there.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Interesting. And it's one of the the well, not a few, but it's a bunch, but like this the sec the sequel I thought was much better than the original. The sequel blew my mind. I'm like, how is this so good?

SPEAKER_02 16:53

Yeah, this has no bit like I choked up legit in one of the scenes, and I was like, uh, what's happening right now? This is ridiculous. They didn't bring back Callie Miguelis, which is a shame. They kind of uh swapped her out for a little Jennifer Connell Connolly there. But but uh yeah, the I mean it's it's ridiculous. Still some of the stunts in the movie are like, okay, that's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

And of course, Tom Cruise flying his own planes, blowing shit up, right?

SPEAKER_02 17:16

Yeah. But it's uh on the big screen at $16 each, or both films for $22, which is a big savings at the park theater and their their their projector there and their screen are off the hook. So well worth seeing what we're seeing.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

Uh my first pick for the park is actually because we didn't get to mention that uh the last one is actually on the 30th of June. Okay. It's the uh the both Kilt Bill movies squished together. Oh, the whole bloody affair. Right, right, right. So it's the last showing of it, I believe, and they're showing it in 70 millimeters as well. That's gonna be crazy. So yeah, if you've never seen them, and I've never seen them put together, only I saw them both in the theaters uh when they came out, you know, but not together. And apparently there's like there's more stuff added, there's animation and stuff like that. I I'm not too sure what has been added or taken away. Um, but yeah, I think I might go check that out.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

Awesome. Yeah. Uh, and then I mean, Thursday, July the 16th through Thursday, July the 23rd, three times a day, uh, four times a day on the Saturday and the Sunday, is Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey. Yes. It's premiering at the park. Oh, cool. Uh, I think it comes out the day before release there. You can see it on the Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

It'll be in 70 millimeter too. It sure will.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Yeah. And that's gonna be I don't I don't know, uh, I don't know how the movie's gonna be. It's got a great cast. What do we got here? Although it's kind of it's we've got okay. After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops, Paul, uh the Cyclops Polyphemus, sirens, and Calypso along the way. Matt Damon is playing Odysseus. Oh. Uh, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattison, Lapita Nyongo, Zendaya, and Charlie Stern are all in it. I heard Rob Schneider was in it. Am I wrong in saying that? He's the uh the stapler.

unknown 19:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Is that his nickname?

unknown 19:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Rob Schneider is. The stapler. Um uh is produced by Nolan and his wife, Emma Thompson. Oh, I didn't know they were married. Neither did I, through their uh their production company uh Syncope, which does most of that.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Like I I like I like most of Nolan's films. I don't like love a lot of his stuff, but they're all great looking. They sure are. And I'm really looking forward to this one. I was I wasn't I was pretty cold on Oppenheimer. I thought it was good. Yeah, it was too long, but it was good to see in the big screen. Yeah, it sure was.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

It's very picturesque. Uh it's a real visual medium, and he understands that, and this is I'm sure gonna be the same. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. So if it whether or not it yeah, we'll see how it works plot-wise and uh performance-wise and script-wise, but like boy, visually, it's gonna be something you want to see at the park.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Yeah, for sure. Um, my for my pick is skipping back to uh the first actually of July. Yeah, is the uh Talking Heads uh concert movie Stop Making Sense. Oh, right on. Yes, which is possibly the best concert movie ever made, in my opinion. It's so good.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

I did not see that until like seven months ago or something.

SPEAKER_00 20:07

I saw it maybe two years ago for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

Yeah, everybody I was like, okay, I'll watch it. Jeez. But it's so good, great from the beginning. Great stuff. Jonathan Demi, right?

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Is that yeah? Yeah, it's so good. And uh if you like talking heads music, it's great. I just saw David Byrne at the um Queenie about a month ago. Nice, and they played a bunch of talking head songs, obviously, and it's just so good. And uh I watched, I was working with a video cat and I watched uh Stop Making Sense a couple days, I guess last week when I was there, and it's still it's just this is so good.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's really good to see on the big screen as well. Yeah, with an audience, with an audience, yeah. People will be dancing in the aisles, maybe. Yeah, I've heard that happens often at showings of this uh I've heard the same. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

Yes. Uh do you got another pick there? I do not. Okay, I have a couple more here. Um, on July the 2nd, uh is uh Spielberg film, Close Encounters of Third Kind. I'll be showing it's probably my second favorite Spielberg film. Like uh that's that's so good. Yeah, and I I got it's one I go back and probably revisit more than any other of his films.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Well, like people forget, like people think it's like uh it's aliens, but it's also abstract. Like he's got this calling, this really weird calling at this possession almost, and then like uh, you know, his marriage is falling apart. And this is during when just divorce rates were through the roof in the 80s and stuff like that. So there's this human backdrop going to this story that's almost just in the background, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

Almost but then everybody remembers the final yeah, the final, or like my favorite scenes are the first couple of encounters when he's in his truck at the the the railway crossing, and then when he's chasing them up the mountain, all the people are waiting to see them. Oh, yeah, and then the cops drive off the cliff. Um, but yeah, that movie is so good, and it's so good on the big screen.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Oh, on the big screen, that's gonna be fantastic. I'll probably go see that actually.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Yeah. And then the next day, well, one uh first, second, third, um, as I they have they're showing uh dazed and confused, uh Richard Linkletter's uh ode to 70s high school with a killer soundtrack and a lot of pot smoking and kind of a gross Matthew McConaughey, but uh Yeah, he's pretty gross in this play. Yeah, but it's uh it's it it's so good. And uh I've always liked most of uh Linkletter's stuff, and it's it's it's one of my favorites as well. Um but yeah, and then uh I had the Odyssey here, but we already talked about it, and that's uh that's where I uh end up on my list of stuff showing at the park.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

Oh right. And then on the second, also well, on the second we've got the Deer Hunter.

SPEAKER_00 22:25

Oh, they're showing the Deer Hunter again?

SPEAKER_02 22:26

And bleak week, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Well, isn't Bleak Week uh is it still on in July?

SPEAKER_02 22:30

I guess they're they're reshowing it there. And then there's a horror movie called Leviticus.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

What's the new one? Yeah, I don't know much about that one. I'm uh I am interested. I'm always interested in any new horror movie that's coming along. So yeah, hopefully that's uh hopefully I get some good uh good reviews.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Yeah, uh I don't know, that's weird. The Odyssey's not on the calendar anymore.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

Oh, it's uh I checked today it was on the calendar. Okay, I think that's starting like the 15th or something. I can't remember the exact date, but it it basically gonna it's gonna dominate the park for the for the second half last year.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Like with like with backrooms last month.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Yeah, yeah, right. It's which is still playing there, actually.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

And it's a good one. Yeah, I still haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Oh, really? I know I am surprised. I I'm working so much at nighttime, I just never get a chance to go see uh things in the theater anymore. But uh hopefully that'll change soon.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Those are our fantastic picks for what's coming up at the Rio Theater and the Park Theater. Uh definitely go check some of them out. Both places are fantastic, lots of uh, and they're you know community-based. It's not some famous players, Cineplex.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

Oh no, yeah, whatever. They're great. Yeah, the staffs are great. There's their is great. If you're over the park, pop over to the street and check out Videocat. It's uh it's a great little uh, you know, I want to I don't want to call it nostalgia store because it's still going and it's still offering great stuff. But I know it's the last DVD rental shop in town. Yeah. And uh yeah, they do good stuff there. Yeah. So yeah. Excellent.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Is that that's it for July at the theater? That's it for July at the theater. So come on down and we'll see you at the we'll meet us at the Rio at the end of the park. Yeah, let's do that. All right. Thanks.