The long anticipated and now cherished sequel to Ridley Scott’s iconic 1982 adaptation of the Philip K. Dick sci-fi stunner, Dennis Villeneuve’s (Dune, Arrival, Sicario) Blade Runner 2049 stars Ryan Gosling as K, opposite Harrison Ford who’s back in fine form as Rick Deckard. 30 years after the first film, blade runners are still detectives tasked with ‘retiring’ rogue replicants, bioengineered humans known used for slave labor. Under the malevolent shadow of the Wallace Corporation, replicant blade runner K digs into the past to track down a missing replicant child and he believes a certain old blade runner might know something about it.

An eerie look further into Blade Runner’s already grim future, 2049 is a considered and immersive exploration of a whole world beyond the neon-puddled streets of Los Angeles underscored by a search for something ‘real’ in a fake plastic world. Much like its predecessor, this is as much a beguiling display of spectacular visual effects, miniatures, costumes and novel science fiction concepts as it is a hardboiled cyberpunk noir – all richly photographed by legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins to the beautiful and earthshaking synths of Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch.