The Mountain Between Us
BLADE RUNNER RETURNS
By Lori Vernon
Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
Rated: PG-13
October 6
After a tragic private plane crash in the
Colorado wilderness strands two strangers
(Kate Winslet and Idris Elba) on a snowy
mountaintop, they must forge a partnership
in order to survive the extreme elements and
other dangers. Realizing help is not coming,
they embark on a terrifying journey across
hundreds of miles of frozen wilderness,
pushing each other to endure and igniting an
unexpected attraction. Based on the 2010
novel of the same name by Charles Martin,
the film also stars Dermot Mulroney, Waleed
Zuaiter and Beau Bridges.
The Florida Project
O
ctober always brings its fair share of
scary movies to cinemas and this
year is no different with lots of fright-
fests sure to put a little fear into your
Halloween. However, some of the year’s
highest quality films are released in October
and this month we have some top-notch dra-
mas, great thrillers and a sci-fi sequel we’ve
been waiting decades for! Here are a few rea-
sons to visit your local theater this month.
Blade Runner 2049
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Rated: R
October 6
Thirty-five years after the original neo-
noir sci-fi classic starred Harrison Ford as a
detective hunting rogue androids in a bleak
future world, we meet Officer K (Ryan
Gosling), a new blade runner for the LAPD.
After unearthing a long-buried secret that has
the potential to end what’s left of humanity,
Officer K’s discovery sends him on a quest to
find Rick Deckard (Ford, reprising his role), a
former blade runner who disappeared 30
years ago. Original director Ridley Scott is
producing this time, with Arrival’s Denis
Villeneuve directing and Roger Deakin
(Skyfall, Fargo, The Shawshank Redemption)
handling cinematography. Jared Leto, Ana de
Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Lennie
James, and Carla Juri round out the cast.
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Directed by Sean Baker
Rated: R
October 6
Sean Baker’s follow-up to his acclaimed
Tangerine is a subtle yet vibrant film about
poverty and those living on the dysfunction-
al fringes of society. Halley (Bria Vinaite), a
young, struggling single mother and her pre-
cocious six-year-old daughter, Moonee
(Brooklyn Prince), live in the shadow of
Disney World in a flophouse motel called The
Magic Castle. Surrounded by a rag-tag group
of friends, Moonee’s summer is filled with
childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of
adventure, while the adults around her strug-
gle with hard times and the reality of life
unfulfilled. Willem Dafoe, Caleb Landry
Jones, Christopher Rivera and Valeria Cotto
have supporting roles.
Marshall
Directed by Reginald Hudlin
Rated: PG-13
October 13th
This courtroom drama tells the story of
young civil-rights attorney Thurgood
Marshall (Chadwick Boseman), the first
African-American Supreme Court Justice, as
he battles through one of his first career-
defining cases defending a terrified black
chauffeur, Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown),
who stands accused of rape and attempted
murder by his white employer (Kate
Hudson). Also starring Josh Gad, Dan
Stevens, James Cromwell and Keesha Sharp.
The Meyerowitz Stories
Directed by Noah Baumbach
Rated: Not Rated as press time
October 13
The Meyerowitz Stories is a comedy/drama
that tells the tale of the estranged adult chil-
dren of Harold Meyerowitz, who reunite in
New York as their father prepares for a career
retrospective of his art at MOMA. Also star-
ring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Adam
Sandler, Emma Thompson, Grace Van Patten,
Judd Hirsch and Sigourney Weaver.
Geostorm
Directed by Dean Devlin
Rated: PG-13
October 20
After an unprecedented series of natural
disasters threatened the planet, the world's
leaders came together to create an intricate
network of satellites to control the global cli-
mate and keep everyone safe. But now, the
system built to protect Earth is attacking it
and it becomes a race against the clock to
uncover the real threat before a worldwide
geostorm wipes out everything and every-
one. Gerard Butler plays the satellite designer
who must fix the climate-control system and
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