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: Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: After the Kingsman HQ is destroyed, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) are forced to team up with their American affiliate, Statesman, and their top agents, Tequila (Channing Tatum), Jack Daniels (Pedro Pascal), and Ginger Ale (Halle Berry)...

Nicolas Cage & Brian Taylor talk Mom & Dad and love of Ghost Rider sequel

Posted 9 years ago

Part of the fun of attending a film festival like TIFF as part of the accredited media, is that you get access to a wide range of stars out there promoting their films. While I mostly stick to reviews, when...

Review: Hostiles

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: An army captain (Christian Bale) on the verge of retirement is ordered to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) back to his native lands through hostile territory. REVIEW: HOSTILES marks star Christian Bale’s first re-teaming with director...

Review: Brad’s Status (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: By all accounts, Brad (Ben Stiller) is a successful guy. He lives a comfortably middle class existence with a wife (Jenna Fischer) who loves him, and a smart son (Austin Abrams) with a bright future ahead of him. But,...

Review: Breathe (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A handsome, adventurous, world-traveling English tea broker, Jonathan Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) is felled by polio, leaving him unable to move anything below his neck or even breathe unaided by a respirator. Initially resigned to his fate, the love of...

Review: mother!

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) restoring her older husband’s (Javier Bardem) decaying home, finds their idyll interrupted by two abrasive house guests (Ed Harris & Michelle Pfeiffer). REVIEW: As far as big studio movies go this year, few are...

We interview Vince Vaughn & Don Johnson for Brawl in Cell Block 99

Posted 9 years ago

At TIFF, one of the movies I was most keen to see was BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (review HERE), for many reasons, one of which was that I loved director S. Craig Zahler’s last film, BONE TOMAHAWK, but also...

Review: Downsizing (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A suburban man (Matt Damon) voluntarily undergoes miniaturization in order to join a small-person’s community where his middle class savings will make him wealthy. REVIEW: Alexander Payne’s DOWNSIZING is nothing if not ambitious – perhaps too much so. It’s...

The Shape of Water (TIFF Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) working the graveyard shift at a top secret government installation in the cold war era, befriends an imprisoned sea creature (Doug Jones) being experimented upon by an overzealous agent (Michael Shannon) and a...

Review: Battle of the Sexes (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Tennis champ Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) who, in 1973, accepted a challenge by Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) to play an exhibition game that he marketed as an epic battle of the sexes. REVIEW: Despite...

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