Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Scarface (83 version), read more Heat, The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, any film noir

Likes: Movies, LP's, James Bond, true hollywood memoirs, The Bret Easton read more Ellis Podcast, every sixties british pop band, every 80s new wave band - in fact just generally all eighties songs, even the really shit ones, and of course, Tom Friggin' Cruise!

Censor (Horror Movie Review) – Sundance Film Festival

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A British film censor (Niamh Algar) becomes obsessed with a gory slasher flick that echoes her repressed childhood memories. REVIEW: “In the future, if you have even the slightest doubt, just reject the film!” This is what Censor’s heroine,...

WTF Happened to Meg Ryan?

Posted 6 years ago

WTF Happened To This Celebrity? – The JoBlo series that examines the careers of stars and filmmakers who may have fallen out of the spotlight, and tells where they are now! Over the course of her career, Meg Ryan has been...

Netflix’s The White Tiger (Movie Review)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A young man named Belram (Adarsh Gourav), from the Indian underclass, gets a job as a chauffeur for the son of a wealthy, crooked businessman. When he’s asked to assume responsibility for a deadly accident, he plots his escape...

Sundance Film Festival 2021 Preview

Posted 6 years ago

Chris Usually, around this time every year, I'd be gearing up for a big trip to Park City, Utah, for my beloved annual ten-day binge of movies, the Sundance Film Festival. Alas, like so many other things, the continuing pandemic...

The Little Things (Movie Review) – Denzel Washington

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A former LASD investigator (Denzel Washington), now working as a deputy in Kern County, consults with a hotshot detective (Rami Malek) on a case involving a serial killer. REVIEW: The Little Things has an interesting history. Originally written by John...

Our Friend: Exclusive interviews: Dakota Johnson, Jason Segel, Casey Affleck

Posted 6 years ago

It's always strange when you see a film a really long time before it actually comes out. This happens to me a lot when I'm covering film festivals, as movies routinely sit on the shelf for a year or so,...

Ladyhawke (1985) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 6 years ago

Richard Donner's arguably most famous for the Lethal Weapon series, as well as his work on bringing Superman to the big screen. Long considered one of Hollywood's most consistent directors, with a long list of hits including The Omen, The...

Godzilla vs Kong: Trailer promises epic monster mash

Posted 6 years ago

It felt like the day would never come, but the Godzilla vs Kong trailer is finally here. It’s pretty insane that a movie that’s less than two months away is only just now releasing its first trailer, but then again,...

Our Friend (Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck, Jason Segel) review

Posted 6 years ago

OUR FRIEND was previously reviewed at TIFF 2019 under the title THE FRIEND. PLOT: A man (Jason Segel) moves in with his married best friends (Casey Affleck and Dakota Johnson) after the wife is diagnosed with terminal cancer. REVIEW: A...

Larry King, iconic talk show host, dead at 87

Posted 6 years ago

Sad news this morning, with CNN reporting that their former talk show host, Larry King, has passed away at 87 years years old. Famous for his iconic interview show, Larry King Live, which aired on the news network for twenty-five...

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