About Jason Gorber
Jason Gorber is a film journalist and member of the Toronto Film Critics Association. In addition to his work for High-Def Digest he is the Managing Editor of ThatShelf.com, the Features Editor at DTK Magazine and a regular contributor for POV Magazine and Cineplex.com. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Screen Anarchy, Birth.Movies.Death, IndieWire and more. He has appeared on CTV NewsChannel, CBC, CP24, RogerEbert.com and many other broadcasters.
Spike Lee has made a career demonstrating a fearlessness in talking truth to power. While his recent narrative films have been a mixed bag (while simultaneously his non-fiction work has been deeply underappreciated), this latest p...
Lars von Trier has been banned from Cannes since 2011 when he joked about his own fascist tendencies. Invited back (but not in competition), the Danish master of the melancholic returns with a dark descent into damnation.
When Disney bought the ‘Star Wars’ franchise and promised many new post-Lucas projects, it was obvious that a couple things would take place. First, there would be a closing trilogy to settle the Skywalker saga, and th...
From the shock of ‘Irreversible’ to the fever dream of ‘Enter the Void’ or the sordid 3D infantilism of ‘Love’, Gaspar Noë’s provocative works shock and bemuse with equal measure, his adol...
What can be said about one of the most wondrous films ever made? How about that one hated it the first time he saw it? Screened on VHS on a 20″ Trinitron, the only thing I knew about ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was t...
There’s only so much you can do about a survival story in the snow. How many times can bad things happen and still be interesting and believable? What sets ‘Arctic’ apart is its good use of physical space, some a...
With its stark black-and-white photography, impeccably composed and framed in Academy Ratio, the art house aesthetic of Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’ comes fully on display in the first moments of the work. Yet ...
Asghar Farhadi, the celebrated director behind award-winning films like ‘A Separation’ and ‘The Salesman’, has been a fixture on the festival circuit, for some the pinnacle of contemporary Iranian cinema. F...
There’s something in the water, and it seems to be in the form of a rodent infestation. Recently, there’s been a minor plague of sophisticated, intelligent documentaries that look at rat-like creatures and how they sha...
It’s been a long road for Paul Schrader to get to ‘First Reformed’, a work that even he admits may not be his last but may well serve as a culmination of his craft. From his earliest days as a seminarian through ...
It’s been a long ride bringing us to ‘Avengers: Infinity War’. A dozen or so films have served as puzzle pieces leading us here, with disparate characters from all over the galaxy uniting to confront the baddie o...
I broke a couple of my rules when I screened ‘Super Troopers 2’. Normally for a sequel, I’d hunt down the original so that I wouldn’t miss any of the callbacks or subtlety of character development. Instead,...