Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,010 Articles Published

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!

The Night House (Sundance 2020 Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A woman (Rebecca Hall) reeling from her husband’s (Evan Jonigkeit) recent suicide takes refuge in the lakeside home he built for her. However, she soon begins to realize that she might not be alone. REVIEW: The public appetite for...

Review: The Climb (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Two lifelong best friends (Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin) find themselves unable to end their toxic friendship, despite causing each other virtually nothing but pain. REVIEW: THE CLIMB is a feature-length extension of a short film that played...

Review: The Assistant (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Julia Garner) works as an assistant to a predatory New York-based movie mogul. REVIEW: In essence, THE ASSISTANT is the first (but likely not the last) movie about Harvey Weinstein. Due for a theatrical release next...

Review: Happy Happy Joy Joy (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: The story behind Nickelodeon’s seminal “Ren & Stimpy”, and the complicated, sometimes predatory man behind it, John Kricfalusi. REVIEW: For fans of “Ren & Stimpy”, HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it’s packed...

Review: The Gentlemen

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) is London’s king of pot. Eager to retire after twenty-five years in the game, he’s planning to cash in with a deal to a fellow expatriate American drug lord (Jeremy Strong) but faces an unexpected...

Review: Bad Hair (Sundance 2020)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young black woman (Elle Lorraine), trying to make it as a VJ at an urban music video network, caves under pressure and invests in a custom-made weave, only to realize that the hair has a life of its...

Bad Hair (Sundance Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

2020 Sundance Film Festival Preview!

Posted 7 years ago

Chris It's hard to believe that I've been attending the Sundance Film Festival for more than a decade now. In fact, this year marks my eleventh time attending the festival, and what a ride its been. Back in 2010, when...

Review: The Last Full Measure

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A disinterested Pentagon staffer (Sebastian Stan) is ordered to review a petition to posthumously award a Congressional Medal of Honor to William H. Pitsenbarger (Jeremy Irvine), an Air Force PJ who served in the Vietnam War and gave his...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: King of New York

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...

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