Arts & Culture

“Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) is not a remake of Ridley Scott’s 1982 epic, it’s the second chapter, set a few decades hence, after an entire breed of replicants revolted in the manner of a slave rebellion.

The handwritten pages of the Bible were finished in 2011 and have been traveling around the world since then. But they haven’t had a permanent home until now. The permanent gallery for Bible opens to the public Oct. 6. 

A companion to National Geographic’s Emmy-nominated “The Story of God,” which finished its second season last January, “The Story of Us” explores universally human themes in vignettes.

The proverbial call of the wild sounds more like a roar in “The Mountain Between Us” (Fox), a trapped-in-the-wilderness survival drama based on the 2011 novel by Charles Martin.

A new independent movie, “The Florida Project,” aims to show the life of people whom director Sean Baker calls “the hidden homeless,” as they scratch out a hand-to-mouth existence paying rent in cash weekly in motels along the U.S. Highway 192 strip between Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida.

Author Amor Towles atest work of fiction, “A Gentleman in Moscow,” is another splendid historical tale, this time set in Moscow, shortly after the Bolshevik revolution.

Clarence Gilyard, the actor most known for co-starring in the TV hits “Walker, Texas Ranger” and “Matlock” and who now teaches acting in Las Vegas, said the deadly mass shooting at the outdoor country music festival Oct. 1 left a “palpable emotional weight” on the city and its Catholic community.

The early 1970s in all its revanchist sexism, double-knit-fabric garishness and choking cigarette smoke is the setting of the coming-of-age story that is “Battle of the Sexes” (Fox Searchlight).