On Ep 311 of The Harold & Maudecast, hosts Sarah Mason and Jake Essoe review BLADE RUNNER 2049 and give their recommendations for some creepy October horror films Now Streaming.
Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 captures the texture and silence of Ridley Scott's original film(BLADE RUNNER), whose involvement is reduced to Exec producer, but don't let that discourage you. This much anticipated sequel has an A+ crew including Director Denis Villeneuve (THE ARRIVAL), screenwriters Hampton Fancher (BLADE RUNNER), Michael Green (LOGAN), multiple Oscar nominated Cinematographer Roger Deakins (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, SKYFALL) visit his imdb it's incredible www.imdb.com/name/nm0005683/?ref_=nmawd_awd_nm). Ryan Gosling masterfully takes the lead backed by a phenomenal cast, Jared Leto, Dave Bautista, Lenny James, breakout star Sylvia Hoeks as bad girl replicant Luv and a potential Oscar winning performance by Harrison Ford reprising his role as Deckard.
Do yourself a favor, see it in the theaters. It's a stunning, thoughtful, brilliant film. 9.6/10 on our Justice & Doom movie meter.
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