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!

Review: The Mustang

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A convict (Matthias Schoenaerts) who’s recently emerged from a long-spell in isolation, is assigned to an inmate program where they train wild mustangs to be sold at public auctions. REVIEW: It’s rare that a prison film ever actually focuses...

Review: Official Secrets (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British secret service officer, leaks an NSA memo exposing an illegal U.S-U.K spying operation designed to push member states of the UN Security Council into...

Review: Corporate Animals (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The CEO (Demi Moore) of Incredibles Edibles, a company specializing in edible cutlery, invites her harried staff along for a team building weekend exploring the caves of New Mexico. When disaster strikes, it doesn’t take long for the team...

Review: Little Monsters (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Dave (Alexander England), a boorish man-child, tries to impress his nephew’s gorgeous teacher, Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) by helping her chaperone a petting zoo field trip which, to his eventual dismay, turns out to be next door to a...

Review: Honey Boy (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A troubled movie star in rehab (Lucas Hedges) tries to come to terms with the way his dangerously unpredictable father (Shia LaBeouf) raised him as a child. REVIEW: HONEY BOY is a gutsy undertaking for Shia LaBeouf. Known more...

Little Monsters (Sundance Review)

Posted 8 years ago

Wounds (Sundance Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Will (Armie Hammer), a New Orleans bartender, witnesses an act of violence that sends him down a rabbit hole of discovery, putting his very sanity, and that of his girlfriend, Carrie (Dakota Johnson), on the line. REVIEW: WOUNDS, which...

Review: Wounds (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

The Nightingale (Sundance Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In 1820’s Tasmania, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict working as an indentured servant to an army officer (Sam Claflin), eagerly awaits the day her sentence will be over, and she’ll be able to start over with her husband and...

Review: I Am Mother

Posted 8 years ago

This review originally appeared as part of our Sundance 2019 coverage PLOT: After an extinction event wipes out mankind and leaves the earth a desolate wasteland, a robot (voiced by Rose Byrne) running a vast underground laboratory with sixty-five thousand...

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