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.
Blu-ray Review: Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS
For those of us in Toronto, it's easy to take for granted what David Cronenberg's Cinema has meant for the rest of the world. One of the few truly great international filmmakers to come out of English Canada, his films...
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Twitchvision: Talking MAMA, THE LAST STAND And Oscar Preview
Twitch is proud to announce a new a new regular video series, Twitchvision! On a weekly basis I'll be pontificating on Canada's Nationally Broadcast CTV News Channel. The live broadcast is at 7:30pm EST on Sunday nights, and on Monday mornings...
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TWITCH Presents 100 Years of Nikkatsu at TIFF Bell Lightbox
One of the great things about TIFF finally getting a home space is their ability to curate niche mini-festivals. Even more great is that they give the likes of Twitch's own Todd Brown a chance to bring an unappreciated sub-genre...
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Gorber's Epic Guillermo del Toro Interview, Part 5: On THE HOBBIT, PACIFIC RIM and HAUNTED MANSION
Scheduled to last a mere 15 minutes, the famously loquacious and erudite filmmaker spent 90 minutes at our roundtable discussion. In this, the final segment of our five-part series, we discuss The Hobbit, the "used-universe" aesthetic of Pacific Rim, and...
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Gorber's Epic Guillermo del Toro Interview, Part 4: On "Foreign Films" and the Nature of the Remake
Scheduled to last a mere 15 minutes, the famously loquacious and erudite filmmaker spent 90 minutes at our roundtable discussion. In this, the fourth of our five part series, he talked about his role of language in shaping the reception...
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Gorber's Epic Guillermo del Toro Interview, Part 3: On LUTHER, Casting MAMA, and Music in Film
Scheduled to last a mere 15 minutes, the famously loquacious and erudite filmmaker spent 90 minutes at our roundtable discussion. In this, the third part of our five part series, he talked about the British television show Luther, on the...
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Gorber's Epic Guillermo del Toro Interview, Part 2: On Producing and Building a Canon of Work
Scheduled to last a mere 15 minutes, the famously loquacious and erudite filmmaker spent 90 minutes at our roundtable discussion. In this, the second part of our five part series, he talked about his role as a producer, and just...
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Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: STAR WARS, Kurosawa, and a Galaxy to be Explored
Today a rumor - since denied by the man himself - hit that Zack Snyder, he of 300, Watchmen and the upcoming Man of Steel projects, is set to direct one of the offshoot Star Wars films. Though Snyder says...
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Gorber's Epic Guillermo del Toro Interview, Part 1 of 5: Toronto, Hitchcock, Short Films and More
When I received notice that Guillermo del Toro would be back in town to talk about his latest project, Mama, I scoffed when it showed that we were to be granted 15 minutes for a roundtable. GDT is one of...
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Interview: Giovanni Ribisi on GANGSTER SQUAD
Gangster Squad has had a bit of a rough time of it, getting caught up in events well outside its control. Originally scheduled to be released last September, it was delayed due to the shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Not...
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Review: Gorber & Marsh Duke It Out Over THE LAST STAND
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to our screens this month in his first leading role since Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines back in 2003. The Last Stand casts him alongside Johnny Knoxville, Forest Whitaker and Peter Stormare in an adrenaline-fuelled neo-Western...
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For Your Consideration: BATTLESHIP for Best Picture of 2012
We live in a time when winking, snarky, sardonic Cinema has become the norm, when things like subtext and subterfuge gloss over what are more often than not simply action movies gone wrong. We've seen pixels fighting pixels, groups...
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Lord of the Memes: The Soviet Version of THE HOBBIT For Your Viewing Pleasure
The Internet is occasionally a remarkable place, a wonderland where people can plop up things that you simply wouldn't have believed to have existed.Some intrepid YouTubers have put onto the video sharing service the 1985 Soviet film Хоббит, or The...
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Exclusive Interview: Talking FRANKENWEENIE With Producer Allison Abbate
Allison Abbate has a pretty astonishing track record in animation, having played significant roles in Tim Burton productions dating back to Nightmare Before Christmas, while also producing such masterpieces as Iron Giant and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Her latest project is...
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Review: THE GUILT TRIP
A Jewish man calls his mother in Florida. "Mom, and how are you." " Not too good," says the mother. "I've been very weak." The son says, "Why are you so weak?" She says, "Because, I haven't eaten in 38...
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I Feel the Need...The Need for TOP GUN in IMAX 3D!!!
"Is this your idea of fun, man?" Why yes, Goose, it really does conform with my idea of fun.We finally have a release date for the IMAX 3D post-convert of Tony Scott's sublime Top Gun. A deliciously homoerotic jingoistic recruitment...
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2INKER 2AILOR? Sequel in the Works for SOLDIER SPY film
A year ago almost to the day, I posted my first article on Twitch, a gushing review of Thomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film proved to be my favourite of 2011, joining the likes of Children of Men...
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There And Back Again: Twitch Survives The 14th Butt-Numb-A-Thon
For my second year in a row, I made my way down to Austin, Texas, home of the infamous celebration of Movie Geekery known as Butt-Numb-a-Thon. This was the fourteenth iteration of this mad festival, what amounts to an...
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Review: HYDE PARK ON HUDSON, a Decent, If Forgettable, Period Piece
It may be difficult to get past seeing Hyde Park on Hudson as anything more than a cynical play at Oscar success, shadowing last year's The King's Speech with another tale of the stuttering King, this time set on Terra...
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Review: THE HOBBIT - AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Exceeds (Lowered) Expectations
After the seventh or eighth denouement during the conclusion of Return of the King, fans of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy were content to have the director have his own way. The seeming interminability of the thing...
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