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: Velvet Buzzsaw (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A pompous critic (Jake Gyllenhaal), an art dealer (Rene Russo) and her ambitious assistant (Zawe Ashton) profit from the work of a deceased artist, but their success comes at a high price. REVIEW: VELVET BUZZSAW is nothing if not...

Velvet Buzzsaw (Sundance Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Sundance Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Single mom Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins) is swept off her feet by a handsome, charismatic stranger (Zac Efron), only to be shocked when he’s arrested in connection with several murders. His name: Ted Bundy. REVIEW: People can’t help but...

Review: Late Night (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: An acerbic English talk show host (Emma Thompson) with waning popularity, tries to revamp her image by hiring a female writer (Mindy Kaling) with little experience but a strong take on what the show could become. REVIEW: At a...

Review: After the Wedding (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Isabel (Michelle Williams) manages a struggling orphanage in India, which is in desperate need of a cash endowment offered by a multimedia magnate, Theresa (Julianne Moore). The one condition is that Isabel must return to New York for an...

Review: Polar

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Duncan Vizla (Mads Mikkelsen) is one of the world’s top hitmen, but he’s being forced into retirement due to his employer’s policy that hitmen can’t work past the age of fifty. Rather than pay out his multimillion-dollar pension, his...

Review: Native Son (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Bigger Thomas (Ashton Saunders), a young African-American man living with his family in inner-city Chicago, gets a job as a chauffeur for a rich white family – an opportunity that at first seems heaven sent. Alas, fate has other...

Review: Serenity

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A fishing boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) who’s hiding out on a remote island, is approached by his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) who tries to convince him to murder her new, abusive husband. REVIEW: SERENITY is an oddball outing. How does...

Ten Sundance 2019 movies we’re looking forward to seeing!

Posted 8 years ago

Chris It absolutely amazes me to say this, but this is my tenth year in a row covering the Sundance Film Festival. That’s right – I’ve been going to Park City, Utah to review movies at Robert Redford’s iconic festival...

Review: King of Thieves

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: An elderly widower (Michael Caine), who was a top-notch thief in his younger days, reassembles the old gang to knock over a safe deposit bank over a holiday weekend. REVIEW: KING OF THIEVES should have been a major release....

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