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Friday, February 9, 2018

New movies have hit the shelves @ your Library!

Blade Runner 2049

Rated: R  Restricted
Run Time: 163 minutes

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.




Detroit

Rated:  R  Restricted
Run Time: 143 minutes

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest RACE riots in United States history. The story is centred around the Algiers Motel incident, which occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, during the racially charged 12th Street Riot. It involves the death of three black men and the brutal beatings of nine other people: seven black men and two white women.




The Lost City of Z

Rated: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned
Run Time: 141 minutes

Director: James Gray
Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | History

The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife, son and aide de camp returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.



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