Under quarantine in Kiev during the Covid-19 pandemic, director Dmitriy Tomashpolski devised an ingenious way of making an ensemble film about not just his own, but the then near universal sense of alienation. He asked 76 different self-isolated people across the world to film themselves with smartphones, following cues provided by himself, and he then…
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…
Director Kiah Roache-Turner and his co-writer/brother Tristan first exploded into the genre scene with their feature debut Wyrmwood (2014), which fuel-injected the putrescent zombie genre with some Mad Max-style motorheadedness and outrageous post-apocalyptic ass-kicking. Now they are back with Nekrotronic, this time giving the well-worn tropes of demonology a much needed update to the online…