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!

Review: Zola (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Zola (Taylour Paige) meets Stefani (Riley Keough) while waitressing, and the two, who are both part-time strippers, immediately hit it off. Within twenty-four hours, they’re on their way to Florida for what’s supposed to be a weekend of stripping...

Review: Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on ‘The Exorcist’ (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Director William Friedkin looks back at the process of making THE EXORCIST. REVIEW: It’s been fascinating to watch director Alexandre O. Philippe’s evolution as a documentarian. The first time I ever noticed his work with when he interviewed one...

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on ‘The Exorcist’ (Sundance 2020 review)

Posted 7 years ago

Review: The Lodge

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. 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...

Possessor (Sundance 2020 Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A corporate spy (Andrea Riseborough) uses brain implant technology to commit gruesome assassinations by inhabiting the bodies of the people her targets are closest to. Her latest assignment, to kill a technology giant (Sean Bean), becomes complicated by the...

Review: Spree (Sundance 2020) starring Joe Keery

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A ride-share driver in L.A with dreams of becoming the next social media superstar, hatches a murderous plan to increase viewership by murdering his riders while he live-streams the whole thing. REVIEW: Reviews out of Sundance are calling SPREE...

Spree (Sundance 2020 review)

Posted 7 years ago

Review: Come Away (Sundance 2020) starring Angelina Jolie

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Two siblings escape into a world of fantasy after their parents (David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie) find themselves on a downward spiral following a family tragedy. REVIEW: You’ve got to wonder just who exactly COME AWAY is made for....

Review: Downhill (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A family’s ski vacation to the Alps turns disastrous when the father (Will Ferrell) has a cowardly moment he’s unable to fess up to, much to his wife’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) chagrin. REVIEW: American remakes of European movies tend to...

Review: The Last Thing He Wanted (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A journalist (Anne Hathaway) covering the war in Nicaragua circa 1984, is thrown into danger when she agrees to do a weapons deal for her gunrunner father (Willem Dafoe), who’s suffering from dementia. REVIEW: It’s hard to fathom what...

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