After six months stuck on the couch scouring Netflix or Crave or Amazon Prime for something decent, it's nice to get your film on in an actual movie theatre.

With the appropriate social distancing, of course.

The Rio Theatre is offering some totally decent flicks this weekend if you need to get out of the house and take your mind off things, maybe have a cold beer and munch on something buttery that isn't microwaved.

For example, tonight (September 25) at 10:30 p.m. the East Van venue is showing Stanley Kubrick's unsettling but essential 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell as a Beethoven-loving, milk-guzzling punk who leads his gang of "droogs" on ultra-violent assaults until the authorities try some aversion therapy on him. 

Another one of my favourite movies is Ridley Scott's stunning 1982 sci-fi epic Blade Runner, with Harrison Ford as an ex-detective on the hunt for humanoid androids in 2019.

Who doesn't love the late, great Rutger Hauer's "Tears in the Rain" monologue:

The Rio is showing Blade Runner: The Final Cut--the "definitive" workprint feature edition--on Sunday (September 27) at 9:30 p.m.

For the theatre's full weekend schedule look here.