More movies!  More fun!  More action in this case, with the Baltimore screening of Kill the Messenger.  Academy Award nominated actors, real-life story; yep Toto, we’re not in Summer Movie Season anymore.  And there’s no place like Oscar Season!

All I really needed to know was  that this film stars Jeremy Renner (what?), but for those of you that would like a synopsis….

Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Bourne Legacy”) leads an all-star cast in Kill the Messenger, a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. In the 1990s, this dedicated reporter’s quest for the truth took him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. – and his investigative reporting drew the kind of attention that threatened not just his career, but his family and his life.

After relocating with his family to California, Webb is a seasoned and respected reporter at the San Jose Mercury News. His career takes a startling turn when an upscale cocaine trafficker’s girlfriend, Coral Baca (Paz Vega), slips him a Grand Jury transcript which reveals a link between U.S. intelligence and Central American cocaine smuggling. Webb begins shadowing Alan Fenster (Tim Blake Nelson), the defense lawyer for Los Angeles crack kingpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross (Michael Kenneth Williams). The journalist soon realizes that he has stumbled onto a story which leads to the shady origins of cheap, seemingly limitless cocaine on the nation’s streets, all too apparent in South Central Los Angeles…

…and which further alleges that Nicaraguan rebels working directly with the CIA were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., using the profits to arm Contra militias back home. Webb makes a risky run into Nicaragua to get crucial information from imprisoned drug baron Norwin Meneses (Andy Garcia). With the backing of his paper’s editor Anna Simons (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Webb’s reportage runs in print and online as a series of articles entitled “Dark Alliance,” and executive editor Jerry Ceppos (Oliver Platt) welcomes the nationwide attention that the stories generate.

But Webb himself becomes the story and a target, as jealous rival reporters who missed the CIA-Contra-cocaine story move to discredit his work and reputation in an increasingly vicious smear campaign. His wife Sue (Rosemarie DeWitt) tries to stand by him even as, despite warnings from drug kingpins and menacing surveillance intended to deter his investigation, Webb keeps digging to prove a direct link between cocaine smugglers and the CIA, a conspiracy with explosive implications.

KILL THE MESSENGER is MPAA-rated “R” and has a running time of 112 minutes.

Good? Want passes? Okay! Read on….

What: ADMIT TWO passes to the Baltimore area screening of Kill the Messenger.

Where: Cinemark Egyptian

When: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

Why: Because you’re you.  And that’s beautiful.

How: Print a pass, get yourself in!  Focus doesn’t do scanning thingies, so it’s that easy.  HOWEVER…remember that if getting a pass is that easy, you’ll need to get yourself there early to assure yourself a seat.  SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED AND IS NOT GUARANTEED.  So get yourself to the theater early — just look for the line, there’s always a line — and enjoy the show!

Good luck, everyone!