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: Smallfoot

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Migo (Channing Tatum), a big-hearted Yeti, learns that the myths he’s be raised believing are false when he discovers a mysterious “smallfoot”, actually a human TV host (James Corden) desperately in need of a comeback. REVIEW: SMALLFOOT is deceptively...

Review: All About Nina

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Nina (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a stand-up comic, tries to leave her baggage behind by relocating to Los Angeles, but finds that some problems can’t be avoided forever. REVIEW: Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been having a great career. She’s...

Exc. We interview John C. Reilly and more for The Sisters Brothers + clip

Posted 8 years ago

One of the movies that kinda snuck up on me at this year's TIFF was THE SISTERS BROTHERS (read my review). Based on the famous novel by Patrick deWitt and directed by A PROPHET's Jacques Audiard, I expected it to be...

Review: Fahrenheit 11/9

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Michael Moore examines the events leading up to and following the 2016 United States presidential election. REVIEW: Given all that’s happened over the last couple of years, did you really think Michael Moore wasn’t gonna make a movie about...

Review: Life Itself

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Fate intertwines the destiny of a couple in New York (Oscar Isaac & Olivia Wilde), a young woman (Olivia Cooke) growing up a generation later, a Spanish landowner (Antonio Banderas), a couple working for him (Laia Costa & Sergio...

Our Top 10 Best Films from TIFF 2018

Posted 8 years ago

And so, another edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is in the books! This marked my ninth year covering the festival for JoBlo.com (time flies!) and overall, I can say this year was as good or better than any...

Review: Driven (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The true story of auto industry giant John DeLorean (Lee Pace) who, in an effort to save his crumbling empire, gets caught up in a major coke deal orchestrated by an FBI informant (Jason Sudeikis). REVIEW: If all you...

Review: The Front Runner (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In the lead-up to the Democratic Primary, the leading candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman), sees his campaign wither when news of his extra-marital affairs hit the public. REVIEW: THE FRONT RUNNER marks a...

Review: Hold the Dark (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A wolf expert (Jeffrey Wright) is recruited by a young mother (Riley Keough) to find the pack that dragged her son off into the Alaskan Wilderness. His findings soon put him at odds with the boy’s father (Alexander Skarsgard)...

Review: Roma (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A year in the life of a middle class family living in Mexico City circa 1970. REVIEW: If any film that I’ve seen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival has a chance to be taught in film schools...

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