Stars: Jay Baruchel, Matt Johnson, Glenn Howerton, Kelly Van der Burg, Laura Cilevitz, Martin Donovan, Saul Rubinek, Stephanie Moran | Written by Matt Johnson, Matthew Miller | Directed by Matt Johnson
Loosely adapting Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, director/co-writer Matt Johnson and producer/co-writer Matthew Miller bring to screen the story of how Blackberry went from a dominating brand in mobile phones to losing all presence in the market.
The story begins in 1996, with Research In Motion co-founders Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Douglas Fregin (Matt Johnson) hoping to secure financial backing for their idea, then known as the PocketLink. The unsuccessful pitch fails to interest executive Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton), who dismisses the presentation in favour of his own underhanded aspirations. When he is instead fired, Jim offers his services to market and...
Loosely adapting Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, director/co-writer Matt Johnson and producer/co-writer Matthew Miller bring to screen the story of how Blackberry went from a dominating brand in mobile phones to losing all presence in the market.
The story begins in 1996, with Research In Motion co-founders Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Douglas Fregin (Matt Johnson) hoping to secure financial backing for their idea, then known as the PocketLink. The unsuccessful pitch fails to interest executive Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton), who dismisses the presentation in favour of his own underhanded aspirations. When he is instead fired, Jim offers his services to market and...
- 10/9/2023
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Stars: Emily van Raay, Andrew Creer, Michelle Treacy, Stephanie Moran, Bradley Hamilton | Written and Directed by Sonny Mallhi
A peaceful sky, wind in the trees, a ladybug sitting on a blade of wheat. Nothing happens in New Caney, Texas. On Halloween night, the picture-perfect Americana of this farming town is quiet, and remains undisturbed. Time moves painfully slowly. Rose sits by herself, smoking a cigarette, scaring the kids away. She wears a mask, like so many others that night. With her husband, freshly back from the war, Rose is off to the village’s annual horror show. Everything is fake – the scar, the red paper blood and the harness on the hanged woman. Only death is real. But the only way to tell you about death is to let you see it for yourself.
Sonny Mallhi is not the kind of filmmaker that has the same name recogntion as his peers,...
A peaceful sky, wind in the trees, a ladybug sitting on a blade of wheat. Nothing happens in New Caney, Texas. On Halloween night, the picture-perfect Americana of this farming town is quiet, and remains undisturbed. Time moves painfully slowly. Rose sits by herself, smoking a cigarette, scaring the kids away. She wears a mask, like so many others that night. With her husband, freshly back from the war, Rose is off to the village’s annual horror show. Everything is fake – the scar, the red paper blood and the harness on the hanged woman. Only death is real. But the only way to tell you about death is to let you see it for yourself.
Sonny Mallhi is not the kind of filmmaker that has the same name recogntion as his peers,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Starring Emily van Raay, Andrew Creer, Michelle Treacy, Stephanie Moran, Bradley Hamilton Written by Sonny Mallhi Directed by Sonny Mallhi It’s Halloween in a tiny Texas town. Rose (Emily Van Raay) and Tommy (Andrew Creer) reconnect over childhood memories at their hometown’s holiday celebration featuring scary mazes, theatrical shows, and haunted hayrides. Recently back from […]
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- 7/27/2018
- by Becky Sayers
- DreadCentral.com
Every town has its traditions. For New Caney, Texas, those traditions include a Halloween-set “horror show” that encourages citizens to dress up in their most chilling holiday attire for…well, we’re guessing not just a fun, family-friendly time with neighbors. Sonny Mallhi’s newest film — and his second produced by indie horror powerhouse Blumhouse Productions — is set in New Caney during just such a time, and the film’s first teaser trailer makes it clear that this holiday will be one many will want to forget.
“Hurt” will premiere at Fantasia Fest, one of the world’s premiere genre festivals, on Thursday, July 26, and its official festival synopsis tantalizingly teases at what’s to come. “Lost in an atmosphere that is as disturbing and brutal as it is real, Mallhi’s characters evolve in a maze of confusion, anxiety and violence. The collective psychosis of American culture is an inescapable horror film,...
“Hurt” will premiere at Fantasia Fest, one of the world’s premiere genre festivals, on Thursday, July 26, and its official festival synopsis tantalizingly teases at what’s to come. “Lost in an atmosphere that is as disturbing and brutal as it is real, Mallhi’s characters evolve in a maze of confusion, anxiety and violence. The collective psychosis of American culture is an inescapable horror film,...
- 7/17/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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