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: If Beale Street Could Talk (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A young, pregnant woman’s (Kiki Layne) family rallies to her aid when her boyfriend (Stephan James) is falsely accused and imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. REVIEW: Success, especially when it seemingly comes out of nowhere, can be...

Review: White Boy Rick (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The story of Richard Wershe Jr. (Richie Merritt) aka White Boy Rick, a street hustler and informant who became a drug kingpin while barely in his teens. REVIEW: WHITE BOY RICK makes for an interesting companion piece to...

Halloween (TIFF Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After forty years, Michael Myers finally escapes custody and goes on the hunt for his old nemesis, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), but after decades of waiting, she’s ready for him…or is she? REVIEW: It was quite a thrill...

Review: Patient Zero

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After a viral outbreak renders most of the population rabid, a team of army doctors holed-up in an underground bunker, try to discover the elusive patient zero, who they feel may possess the antibodies to cure the disease. REVIEW:...

Review: Halloween (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

Review: A Star is Born (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: An alcoholic superstar rocker (Bradley Cooper) falls in love with a young singer (Lady Gaga), giving her a start in the biz. But, soon her career starts to eclipse his and threatens to unearth old demons. REVIEW: I walked...

Review: The Sisters Brothers (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) Sisters are two of the wild west’s deadliest assassins. While Eli yearns to settle down, Charlie is hellbent on cozying up to their boss, The Commodore, and soon the two find...

Review: The Predator (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A military sniper (Boyd Holbrook) encounters a predator on a disastrous mission and is locked up to in order to be kept quiet. But, unbeknownst to the shady government agent (Sterling K. Brown) involved in the cover-up, he’s already...

Review: Monsters and Men (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A police shooting has unexpected consequences on the lives of three men. REVIEW: MONSTERS AND MEN was one of the most talked about movies to play Sundance in January, but as often happens at a festival like this, my...

TIFF 2018 Preview!

Posted 8 years ago

It’s hard to believe, but it’s already time to kick off another year at the Toronto International Film Festival, and as always this year’s lineup is killer. Long considered the official starting point of the year’s Oscar race, oh so...

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