They’re not taken seriously, until a raging, recently fired businessman named Jim Balsillie (a movie-stealing Glenn Howerton) comes on board. A group of nerds, led by Mike Lazaridis (a pitch-perfect Jay Baruchel) and his bombastic best friend Doug (Johnson), has created a device–a phone… that does computing!–that the world isn’t ready for. So, get ready! The fall blitz is coming.įor as long as I can remember, we’ve been inundated with stories of guys inventing things in garages that will “change the world.” The beginning of Matt Johnson’s Blackberry resembles one of those stories, albeit with a quirkier tone and more jagged texture. Still, festival season is entering full swing nonetheless. ![]() Earlier this summer, SAG-AFTRA joined the WGA on strike, and neither strike appears close to a resolution. The summer success has, naturally, inspired a lot of extrapolating and theorizing from fans and movie pundits: Does Barbenheimer prove moviegoers crave original stories from empowered artists? Should multiple blockbusters be released on the same day more often? How on earth do you replicate the viral marketing that made these two films must-see events? Francis Ford Coppola thinks we’re on the “ verge of a golden age.” Studio executives, though, seem hellbent on squashing any momentum in service of keeping their wallets fat, putting talent in its place, and reserving the right to replace labor with AI one day. On the other hand, though, there were several very good indies–which ran the gamut from sexy to heartbreaking, and introduced a host of compellingly complicated characters. There were no earth-shaking explosions or Barbie Land-shaking existential ruptures. ![]() After a ginormous July for moviegoing, August was a much quieter month.
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