Jameson Kowalczyk

"Good performances and technical competence can’t save the film and the sum of the individual efforts add up to something that should be saved for late night cable when you’re suffering from a bout of insomnia."

"Good performances and technical competence can’t save the film and the sum of the individual efforts add up to something that should be saved for late night cable when you’re suffering from a bout of insomnia."

...The plot may seem like a conglomerate of sci-fi/action yarns of decades past, but Neil Marshall has cemented his role as the best genre filmmaker alive today...

CJ7 is the latest from filmmaker Stephen Chow, the mastermind behind Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, both which drew record-breaking audiences into China’s box offices and earned Chow a well-deserved fanbase throughout the rest of the world.

What I like about the Midnight Program at Sundance, is the movies can be kind of fucked up. And The Signal is kind of fucked up.” Words spoken by the Sundance programmer who introduced The Signal at its world premier at Sundance ’07, and not an inaccurate description of the film, which centers around a bizarre broadcast that takes control of every TV, radio, and phone in the fictional city of Terminus (and maybe the world?), turning those who are exposed to in into volatile lunatics.