Jason Gorber
Toronto, Canada
Jason has been publishing online film reviews since the early 1990s, meaning that according to calculations he is over 2000 years old in Internet time. He has published reviews at Filmfest.ca for over a decade, and you'll find there many things, including reviews and photos from TIFFs gone by. Since 2011 he has found a welcome home at Twitch covering theatrical and home media releases, as well as conducting many engaging interviews, all while reveling in the newfound joy found in having significant numbers of people actually read what he writes. If you're enjoying what you've read here, you should also follow him on Twitter at @filmfest_ca, because that will help him feel even more popular, and you might learn something cool about Lego, or movies, or wombats, or anything, really.
Review: THE ABCS OF DEATH Encourages Letter Skipping
Anthology films, that strange format where a number of directors assemble to tell their own take on a given subject, are strange cinematic beasts. On the one hand, they play like mini-festivals, a cinematic buffet, or one of those sushi...
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STAR WARS Ruminations: The Princess Strikes Back with Carrie Fisher Returning
It's becoming less of a surprise, particularly when it became all but assured that Harrison Ford was going to reprise his role, that the other stars from the Original Trilogy would be coming back for one more go with the...
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Jon Stewart to Delve into Directing Feature Films With ROSEWATER
Deadline is reporting that The Daily Show's Jon Stewart is stepping up to direct Rosewater, a film about Maziar Bahari's capture and confinement by Iranian security forces during the Green Uprising. Stewart wrote the script based on Bahari's memoir, Then...
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By The Beard Of Zeus! Harrison Ford Joins Cast Of ANCHORMAN 2
As if the much anticipated film couldn't get any better, Harrison "Indiana Frickin' Han Solo Jones" Ford has joined the cast of Anchorman 2, which is already filled with the returning Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Kristin Wiig,...
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Spielberg To Bring Kubrick's NAPOLEON To Life!
For any Kubrick-phile (and, really, for any fan of cinema), the Kubrick Napoleon project has long-survived as one of the great unmade masterpieces.Kubrick spent over a decade developing the project, dropping it after extensive research, location-scouting and even some early...
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Twitchvision: Talking JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, STOKER, And THE GATEKEEPERS
Back again with another Twitchvision, this time talking about three good movies that came out this week (Jack: The Giant Slayer, Stoker and The Gatekeepers), and trying to pretend that we live in a world where 21 And Over doesn't...
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Now on Blu-ray: THE MASTER Remains A Compelling Mystery
I've thought, argued and written more about The Master in the last year than almost any film in my life, yet it remains a hard work to love. Paul Thomas Anderson's paean to Hustonian excess, along with loads of...
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Review: THE GATEKEEPERS
It came as no surprise in retrospect that The Gatekeepers is a film celebrated by Errol Morris. Having missed the film when it played TIFF last September, I had assumed, incorrectly, that it'd be a dry piece, merely talking...
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Review: JACK THE GIANT SLAYER Boldly Slashes Forth, Free Of Irony
Color me surprised, because if Jack the Giant Slayer isn't quite the best movie of the year so far, it's at least a damn good one.It's fair to say the movie had a stink about it. It was meant...
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Exclusive: Roman Coppola Talks CHARLES SWAN, Breakups, And Wes Anderson
I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of chatting with Roman Coppola, writer/director of the irritatingly titled A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III. This is the first feature from Coppola sitting in the director's chair since...
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TIFF Next Wave Review: GHOST GRADUATION
One of the most charming, silly and rambunctious films of this year's festival, Ghost Graduation (Promoción fantasma) is an unabashed love letter to the cinema of John Hughes, mixed in with bits of The Frighteners or Ghostbusters for good measure....
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Twitchvision: Talking IDENTITY THIEF, SIDE EFFECTS, TOP GUN 3D, And More
Back in the studio this week, talking about the egregious hell that is Identity Thief, my ambivalence towards Side Effects, and the cinematic rush of Top Gun 3D, along with some words about A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles...
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Review: A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III Offers Only Fleeting Pleasures
Any film with a title as obnoxious as A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III seems resolutely unconcerned with actually getting wide audience acceptance. I've watched the film, and even interviewed the director, and still have a hell of...
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In Memoriam: Makeup Artist Extraordinaire Stuart Freeborn (1914-2013)
The film world has lost one of the giants of movie makeup and creature design. Stuart Freeborn, whose credits go back to the 1930s, died earlier this week from a combination of ailments due to his age, according to The...
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STAR WARS Ruminations: Post-Postquels Confirmed, Top 10 Characters For Solo Movies
Since last we checked in on all things Star Wars-ian, we've had a couple more confirmations about what had been rumoured since the deal initially went through, and some more details about the J.J.-as-director madness.When asked back in December, Abrams...
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Twitchvision: Talking WARM BODIES, STAND UP GUYS, BULLET TO THE HEAD & Football Fun
This week's Twitchvision chat was done from the home theatre where I've assembled a crack team of football watchers. Timed almost perfectly with a power outage at the NOLA Superdome, I was on air talking about the Walken/Pacino/Arkin buddy pic...
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Review: WARM BODIES Underplays the Zombie Thing With a Charming Romance
A sweet yet innocuous romance steeped in both Shakespearean motifs and shoegazing tropes, the saving grace of Warm Bodies (AKA 'the emo zombie film') is that it's quite charming, never completely falling into a farcical take on the subject matter....
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Review: STAND UP GUYS Stands Up to Scrutiny
Put Al Pacino, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken together on screen, and it's a laconic dream team. Each is so delightfully quirky and menacing in their own unique style that it's clear the film's greatest coup is casting. Stick these...
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Review: BULLET TO THE HEAD Offers Up Cinematic Cotton Candy
Bullet To The Head is more than just a Walter Hill project, or the newest movie starring the resurgent Sylvester Stallone. It's also shaped by the firm hand of producer Joel Silver, a man not known for keeping his cards...
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Lucasfilm Update: STAR WARS Prequels 3D Release "Postponed"
According to the official Star Wars site:"Lucasfilm has decided to postpone this fall's scheduled release of Star Wars Episodes II and III in 3D. Given the recent development that we are moving forward with a new Star Wars trilogy, we...
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