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.
STAR WARS Ruminations: A Film A Year, Plus Chewbacca's Severed Head
Things have slowed down relatively speaking on the Star Wars front, with most of J.J.'s time spent prepping his second (and presumably final?) foray into the word of Star Trek.Still, there was some solid news confirmed today. At Cinemacon this...
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Twitchvision: Talking TRANCE and THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
Ah, the joys of live television - despite skipping 42 (and having told the producers as much earlier in the week) was thrown a curveball without preparation to talk about the Jackie Robinson film that's dominated this weekend's box office....
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Twitch Talks UPSTREAM COLOR
Shane Carruth's followup to his stunning debut Primer expands to additional theatres this week (and will be available for download and streaming May 7). Our own Eric Snider reviewed the film at Sundance, suggesting that "Upstream Color is interesting; it just...
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Twitchvision: Talking EVIL DEAD, THE SAPPHIRES, JURASSIC PARK 3D and ROGER EBERT RIP
New guest host for this weekend's Twitchvision, but we still managed to get through quite a bit! Talked about the Evil Dead remake (which I found pretty terrible, my sentiments shared by those expressed in Kurt Halfyard's review), Jurassic Park 3D...
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Review: JURASSIC PARK In 3D Still Inspires A Sense Of Wonder
BOOooooooooommmm......I sat in the theatre, kind of in awe. It was my first DTS screening, the cinema having been recently retrofitted for the technology. The year was 1993, and digital surround technology was finally finding its base (and its bass)....
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Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: Ebert's Presence, aka Roger and Me [Update: R.I.P. Roger]
Updated April 4, 2013: One day after I posted this article, The Chicago Sun-Times announced that Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70. Click below to view video: Roger Ebert announced late last night what many had feared...
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Interview: Talking THE COLONY With Kevin Zegers and Director Jeff Renfroe
Just over a year ago, I found myself flown to Northern Ontario to visit the set of an ambitious Canadian-produced post-apocalyptic thriller starring Kevin Zegers, Bill Paxton and Laurence Fishburne. The trip to The Colony set was memorable for several...
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Twitchvision: Talking G.I. JOE: RETALIATION, THE HOST, and Easter/Passover Movies
While I had to skip a press screening of the latest in the G.I. Joe franchise because of this week's "Seder" thing, I ended up paying good money to see The Rock fight some bumblebees (really, it was kind of...
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Review: THE HOST Makes Me Hate Cinema
It's rare that I see a film as patently awful as The Host. I mean, sure, I've stomached the likes of Identity Thief in the last few months, but this latest "film" from the "mind" of Twilight "author" Stephenie Meyer...
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Twitchvision: Talking SPRING BREAKERS, ADMISSION, and OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN
This week saw a bunch of films worth talking about, including what for me is the first non-awful Harmony Korine film Spring Breakers, the innocuous and thus disappointing Admission, and the best goddamn movie of the weekend, Olympus Has Fallen...
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Review: Beyond the Spectre of HBO's PHIL SPECTOR
All the ingredients are there - a salacious crime and trial that captivated tabloids, centered around a man that has had the name genius about him for half a century. A quirky, charismatic dwarven weirdo that helped shape the sounds...
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STAR WARS Postquel Update - J.J. Starts To Talk
Well, we're finally getting a bit out of the director of the as-yet-untitled Episode 7 as he gears up to talk about that other Star Trek-amajig movie he's supposed to be promoting.The guys and gals at Empire probably made a...
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Friedkin's SORCERER To Be Unleashed Once Again!
As part of my crazy long interview with William Friedkin that you should really read, I brought up the possibility of finally seeing Sorcerer given the respect it's due.Here's how that part of the conversation went:I have lots of people...
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Review: I've Fallen For OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN
I think the only proper way to fully convey the power, the majesty, the sheer awesomeness of Olympus Has Fallen is to do so with the same level of bombastic hyperbole that the film exhibits. It's as if the...
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Twitchvision: Talking THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE, Magic Movies, and more!
Continuing the magician theme this week, with talk of the disappointing Burt Wonderstone, along with that magical year of 2006 where competing magician movies tried to impress at the cinema....
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Twitchvision: Talking OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
With only one major release this week, we concentrated on Raimi's OZ-stravaganza™ that features Franco being Franco and a Kunis in distractingly delicious tight leather pants. Oh, and the flying monkey's Jar Jar. No, totally.At any rate, here's my brief...
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"Punch It!" - Newest Trailer for J.J.'s STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS
I must say, the project continues to look pretty exciting, even if it does seem like the end of Return of the Jedi with Kirk as Lando and Spock as Nien Nunb. What's nice is that formerly this would be...
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Review: DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' Traces Remarkable Journey
The story is so remarkable you almost can't help but being skeptical that it wasn't crafted just to be the basis of a film some day -- massive international touring band loses their second main lead singer, and needs to...
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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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