Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of questionable MKV files.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am actually, believe it or not, going through my DVD collection.

Okay, well, collection is strong.

I have a few DVDs that turned up in a box that my parents had in their basement for like

decades, which they randomly decided to give to me.

Thank you, parents.

So now I've gone from zero DVDs in my life to like six and two of them are clueless.

So that's fun.

These boxes have been sitting in my basement for a few months now and the thing that

inspired me to finally sit here and go through them is actually today's episode.

This episode is all about movie making.

We're going to talk with Matt Johnson, the director of the new movie Blackberry about

everything from the story behind Blackberry's demise to why he hates most tech movies.

We're also going to try and figure out why director's commentary seems to be no longer a

thing in the streaming era and whether or not we can bring it back.

Then we're going to take a look at a new genre of movies, the ones that take place entirely

on a computer screen.

We're going to see if we can figure out how those movies actually get made.

It's a fun show and oh, I should say I promise there are no spoilers in this episode.

I mean, I guess if you consider Blackberry is not popular anymore, a spoiler, then find

spoiler alert, but really we tried hard to make this episode about making movies, not

the movies themselves.

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