Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,011 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: Bodied (Sundance)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A white grad student’s success in battle rap has unexpected consequences. REVIEW: I’ve been hearing people talk about BODIED ever since it won Midnight Madness at TIFF, slayed at Fantastic Fest, and established itself as an underground classic that...

Review: The Catcher Was a Spy (Sundance)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The story of Moe Berg (Paul Rudd), a professional baseball player-turned O.S.S agent during World War II. REVIEW: THE CATCHER WAS A SPY comes to Sundance with an appropriate amount of behind-the-scenes intrigue given the premise. Originally tipped as...

Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot (Sundance)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The true story of cartoonist John Callahan, who was paralyzed as a young man following a drunken bender, but despite being quadriplegic, managed to become an acclaimed artist. REVIEW: It’s been a lean few years for Gus Van Sant...

Review: Private Life (Sundance)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A middle-aged couple (Paul Giamatti & Kathryn Hahn) try to keep their marriage from collapsing under the strain of numerous, failed fertility treatments. REVIEW: PRIVATE LIFE marks the long-awaited return for director Tamara Jenkins, who hasn’t made a film...

Mom and Dad (Movie Review)

Posted 9 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran as part of our Toronto Film Festival 2017 coverage. PLOT: An inexplicable phenomena results in parents being uncontrollably compelled to murder their children. REVIEW: MOM AND DAD marks the solo directorial debut of Brian Taylor,...

Review: Blindspotting (Sundance)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: After a short stretch in prison, Collin (Daveed Diggs) is put on probation for a year. Flash-forward to eleven months and twenty-seven days later, as he tries to navigate life in his Oakland neighborhood, and the whims of his...

Review: Den of Thieves

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A hard-edged L.A cop(Gerard Butler) becomes hell-bent on taking down an elite crew of bank-robbers, led by the elusive Merrimen (Pablo Schreiber), a former special ops soldier-turned-criminal. All the while, the group’s young getaway driver (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) finds...

Sundance 2018 preview!

Posted 9 years ago

It’s Sundance time again! I really love this fest, and believe it or not, this will be the eighth year in a row I’ve covered it for JoBlo.com, so I guess you could say I’m a vet at this point....

Review: The Commuter

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Sixty years old, deep in debt and newly laid-off, a former cop-turned-insurance salesman (Liam Neeson) is approached on the commuter train by a mysterious woman (Vera Farmiga), who offers him a tidy sum of cash if he’ll help identify...

JoBlo.com’s Preview of 50 Movies we want to see in 2018

Posted 9 years ago

Chris 2017 was a damn good year for film, both in terms of tent-poles and the more sophisticated art house fare that’s in the process of finding an audience as we go into awards season. With all of our top...

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