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!

VFW (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young woman on the run from a deranged drug dealer and his punk army takes shelter in a VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) bar, earning their considerable protection after one of the punks mortally wounds one of their...

Review: VFW

Posted 7 years ago

Review: Ordinary Love

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A middle aged couple’s (Liam Neeson & Lesley Manville) bond proves to be unbreakable after a frightening diagnosis threatens to tear them apart. REVIEW: Think of ORDINARY LOVE as the low-key, indie answer to the overwrought romantic melodramas that...

Review: Sonic the Hedgehog

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Sonic (Ben Schwartz) is a super-powered blue hedgehog from an alternate dimension hiding out on earth to hide from those who want to harness his super speed. When he loses his magical golden rings, which allow him to travel...

Review: Horse Girl

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A meek young woman (Alison Brie) working in a crafts store begins to lose her grip on reality. REVIEW: Jeff Beana’s HORSE GIRL is a major step-up for the filmmaker, following his reliably silly Sundance entries THE LITTLE HOURS...

Sundance 2020 Wrap-Up and 5 Best!

Posted 7 years ago

Chris And so it comes to an end – with my eleventh Sundance (in a row!) officially in the books. In many ways, this was a game changing year for the festival, with the advent of streaming more apparent than...

Review: Wendy (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young girl and her brothers leave their home so they can stay eternally youthful on a magical island lorded over by a magical creature the other children on the island call “mother.” REVIEW: This year’s Sundance Film Festival...

Review: The Glorias (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: The life of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, through her early days as a journalist through her role in the women’s rights movement in the 1960s and beyond. REVIEW: Julie Taymor is an interesting director. For my money, she’s up...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Blind Fury

Posted 7 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

The Lodge (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Following the suicide of their mother, two kids find themselves trapped in a remote lodge over their Christmas holiday with their father’s girlfriend (Riley Keough) who also happens to be the sole survivor of a religious cult. REVIEW: THE...

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