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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 3h

ACAB - Aaron Copeland Awesome Brassparts

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 22h

That rehearsal pianist ended up with a decent career.

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Toronto Film Critics Association @torontofilmcritics.bsky.social · 1d

On JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME 😂

"on the screen, Candy is virtually reincarnated" - Brian D. Johnson

"thorough and incredibly moving" - @annebrodie.bsky.social

On THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR 🚨

"a nearly perfect film" - @filmfest.bsky.social
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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Oct. 10 - Toronto Film Critics Association

Movie reviews for A House of Dynamite, Roofman, Tron: Ares, John Candy: I Like Me, The Woman in Cabin 10, and more!

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 2d

Masterpiece of a film.

Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about one of the year's most disturbing films, which stares at an oncoming tragedy like a deer in the headlights. The Netflix doc succinctly captures America's racism, love of guns, and failure of police. Me on The Perfect Neighbor: www.avclub.com/the-perfect-...

The Perfect Neighbor stares helplessly at a perfectly ordinary American murder

The Perfect Neighbor uses bodycam footage to capture the inevitable, racist, deeply American murder at its heart.

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 2d

"It’s a film about AI with its foundational elements feeling generative rather than genuine, it’s various elements pieced together from what came before and rearranged just enough to make one feel that they’ve been given something new-ish."

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Something Has Been Corrupted in the Copied Code of Tron: Ares

Tron: Ares feels inescapably like something pieced together from its previous installments, with just enough additions to be technically new.

www.pastemagazine.com

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 4d

The end result was...middling

Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking badly Spotify's new AI playlist creator. Having this kind of search with low stakes (hallucinate away on song selection) does seem a less evil application for the tech, but it's amusing it still doesn't actually work (yet).

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 5d

Wburn.

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 7d

This legend has done the math for screens around the world - the biggest in Canada, which doesn't even have laser GT, is still dwarfed by the likes of Melbourne. Given Canada is home to #Imax one can only dream we could have a monster near here.

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전세계 아이맥스관 스크린 크기 비교도 [IMAX Screen Size Comparison in the World] (2024.12.25 기준)

※전세계 IMAX GT LASER관 리스트를 확인하시려면 이쪽으로. 전세계에 있는 아이맥스 팬들을 위...

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 7d

Stumbled across this... We have some mighty screens (including my beloved yet shuttered Cinesphere) yet lag behind other wonderous locations

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 7d

Reality bites.

Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 7d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

"One of the many reasons I connected with Bristol and Bob is that I would love to do a trip like that."

Alison Reid, Robert Bateman, and Bristol Foster tell @filmfest.bsky.social about #TheArtOfAdventure ahead of its premiere at @viffest.bsky.social povmagazine.com/how-the-art-...

How The Art of Adventure Captures a Travel Bug that Spans Generations - POV Magazine

An interview with The Art of Adventure director Alison Reid and stars Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster about their landmark expedition.

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 7d

Here (again) was my on-street unboxing

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Criterion Closet - The Wes Anderson 4K UHD Box set at TIFF50!

YouTube video by That Shelf

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Toronto Film Critics Association @torontofilmcritics.bsky.social · 8d

On THE ROAD BETWEEN US

"precise, compelling" - @filmfest.bsky.social

"just enough to educate and, if you have a heart, to enrage" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social

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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Oct. 3 - Toronto Film Critics Association

Movie reviews for The Smashing Machine, Anemone, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, Orwell: 2+2=5, Predators, Bone Lake, and more.

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 7d

This pleases me so - I was (humbly) suggesting to Cillian at a TIFF party that he grab the @criterion.bsky.social Anderson set when he did his closet a few days after the fest, and so chuffed to see that he did so!

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Cillian Murphy’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 8d

*Simchas.

And the idea of getting shot by a cop through a door you're trying to keep closed to keep an attacker out is quite a thing to process.

Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 8d

I want to echo the immortal TOP SECRET and say "but Sinchaa Torah would likely be fair game", but this is another thing the monsters behind Oct 7 took away from my people.

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8d

Which is not, to head any replies off, a suggestion that lethal force *shouldn't* be used to protect lives when there is no other option. The cops obviously shouldn't have let him blow up a synagogue on Yom Kippur.

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 8d

Watching footage of Chubby Checker and realizing how much more slim he is than me makes for quite the morning.

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a wall with diamonds on it

Alt: Chubby Checker in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a wall with diamonds on it

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Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · 8d

It's been a long time coming...