Blade Runner 2049 is not a story about the future ... As it is, it's hard to look at the love and pain on Joi's face and not feel for her. Which, Gassner told me, was the goal.

Don't look so skeptical, Ryan. Your new movie's great! Credit: Warner Bros. Believe the buzz: Blade Runner 2049 really is that good. Mashable's own Josh Dickey was over the moon about it ...

Thirty years after the events of Blade Runner (1982), a new Blade Runner, L.A.P.D. Officer "K" (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society ...