BlackBerry

BlackBerry (2023)

Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry is, as text at its beginning states, a ‘fictionalisation’, but ‘inspired by real events and real people’. Adapted by Johnson and Matthew Miller from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s 2015 book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, it opens with a 1996 meeting…

Random Acts

Random Acts of Violence (2019)

Random Acts of Violence first published by VODzilla.co Random Acts of Violence begins, like so many psychothrillers before it, with an impressionistic primal scene: a front door decorated with a Christmas wreath, and inside a young boy (Isaiah Rockcliffe), seated and staring with blood on his face, while a woman declares in voiceover, “There can…