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Broadcast Signal Intrusion SXSW 2021 Film Review: Tech Noir
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Broadcast Signal Intrusion Review: Down A Rabbit s Hole of Paranoia, Hacking and Obfuscation
Harry Shum Jr. searches for his missing wife in this atmospheric but finally frustrating narrative labyrinth.
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Director: Jacob Gentry
With: Harry Shum Jr., Kelley Mack, Justin Welborn, Chris Sullivan, Jennifer Jelsema, Steven Pringle, Michael B. Woods, Arif Yampolsky, Madrid St. Angelo, Richard Cotovsky, Preston Tate Jr.
Running time: Running time: 104 MIN.
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It’s tricky to pull off the kind of cryptic mystery labyrinth that “Broadcast Signal Intrusion” attempts, and Jacob Gentry’s film only works to a point whatever point at which the viewer decides this thriller’s elusive menace is just too vague to generate sufficient urgency or suspense. As long as the promise outweighs the frustrating lack of payoff, however, it’s an intriguing and atmospheric puzzle, with “Glee” star Harry Shum Jr. chasing down a
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Watching Jacob Gentry’s
Broadcast Signal Intrusion is similar to following yarn pulled across a bulletin board. From one clue to another, the film shoots through the mystery of an unsettling pirate broadcast – pushing pins in different places where answers might be. Are those answers real?
Maybe, but the truth gets murky in rabbit holes. But the paranoia and obsession on display from James (Harry Shum Jr.), a video archivist caught up in the film’s conspiracy, is clear.
The film is set in 1999-era Chicago, with much of period-setting coming from the outdated tech decorating James’ apartment and life. He’s stuck rewinding through the past – transferring tapes to CD for work with his wife’s death a recurring VCR whine underneath. Harry Shum Jr. plays the character with a haunted air, grief repressed into the hardest of emotional walls to protect himself. That is, until he becomes consumed with finding the creator of a series of signal inte
21 Movies We Can t Wait to Watch (Virtually) at SXSW 2021
We re kicking off our coverage of SXSW 2020 s virtual film festival with a list of the movies we can t wait to watch (from the safety of our homes).
For a second consecutive year, our longtime local film festival South by Southwest (SXSW) has gone virtual due to the ongoing global pandemic. For movie, music, and technology conference enthusiasts around the world who have never been able to attend in the past, this actually works out nicely. For
SXSW Film, this means opening up one of the world’s best-curated festivals to a wider audience that can enjoy films from the comfort and safety of their homes. Hopefully next year we’ll be back to roaming the crowded streets of downtown Austin, waiting in line for hours outside the Paramount Theatre, and sneaking into parties on the various balconies of the InterContinental Hotel. But for this year, we’re delighted to be attending virtually in our ongoing quest to discover gr
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