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The Simian Better Man Is a Pleasant Evolution of the Musical Biopic

Dec 23, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Jason Gorber

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In a post-Walk Hard world, it’s good that many biopics of creative individuals are taking chances and messing around with the form.
A Glorious Celebration of the Birth of Film

Dec 20, 2024 | collider.com | Jason Gorber

Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the toilet, nor was the company that bore his moniker the source for the name of a bodily function. And while John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, will forever be associated with the food that bears his name, his was not the first mouth to bite upon meat and cheese stacked between two pieces of bread.
'The Six Triple Eight' Review: Tyler Perry’s Netflix Drama Pays Homage to the Lesser-Known Heroes of WWII

Dec 20, 2024 | collider.com | Jason Gorber

In civilian life, businesses refer to moving stuff around as being a "matter of logistics," ensuring that vital components, messages, or any other form of engagement runs smoothly and efficiently. In military circles, this movement of goods and supplies from the bases to the front is known as lines of communication, prioritizing the notion that this word implies interconnection and transmission from one sector to another.
Stunningly Bold and Beautifully Sung, Wicked Soars Higher Than Hoped

Nov 19, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Jason Gorber

It’s more than fair to say that the Broadway show Wicked is pop-u-lar. With more than one-and-a-half billion greenbacks earned since its debut back in 1995, the Stephen Schwartz penned musical with a book by Winnie Holzman based on Gregory Maguire’s novel has proven that its verdigris is more than skin deep.
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It Review

Nov 17, 2024 | povmagazine.com | Jason Gorber
Music by John Williams Review: On the Man Behind the Movies' Music

Oct 29, 2024 | povmagazine.com | Jason Gorber
Morgan Neville on Piece By Piece and Building a Doc with LEGO

Oct 7, 2024 | povmagazine.com | Jason Gorber
In Joker: Folie à Deux, the Joke Is Definitely on You

Oct 3, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Jason Gorber

As the philosopher Michael Philip Jagger stated, one can’t always get what one wants, but sometimes one gets what they need. In the decades since that profundity was proposed, the world has done its best to belie the sentiment, shedding bit by byte the transmissive characteristic of mass culture to asymptotically approach a more personal, more self-curated form fed to the viewer in a mode that they believe they have helped shape.
1997 Toronto Film Festival Diaries

Sep 27, 2024 | filmscouts.com | Jason Gorber

1997 Toronto Film Festival Diaries The Plebeian Diary #1 by Jason Gorber Toronto, September 5, 1997 The Toronto Film Festival works a little differently from other festivals as regards class distinctions in the audience. There are a variety of "levels" of tickets for the Gala screenings, ensuring that the "Gold" patrons, those affiliated with the major sponsors, get the priority seats.
Film Scouts Reviews: Men With Guns

Sep 27, 2024 | filmscouts.com | Jason Gorber

"Men With Guns" by Jason Gorber Buy this video from Reel.com Books from Amazon.com: Buy The Screenplay. Music from Amazon.com: Buy The Soundtrack. Toronto, September 5, 1997 In most of the press releases for John Sayles' latest film, "Men With Guns", reference is made to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". While Sayles' film does portray a "journey of discovery" for a central character, with various physical and philosophical confrontations along the way, the comparison to Conrad may be a...