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!

JoBlo.com at the 25th anniversary Sundance screening/Q&A of RESERVOIR DOGS!

Posted 10 years ago

It’s hard to believe, but RESERVOIR DOGS is twenty-five years old. On the anniversary of its world premiere at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, none other than Quentin Tarantino, with producer Lawrence Bender and star Michael Madsen in-tow, showed up...

Review: Walking Out (Sundance) starring Matt Bomer

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A fourteen-year-old city boy (Josh Wiggins) is forced to step-up in a big way after his hunter father (Matt Bomer) is badly wounded on a winter hunt, stranding the two of them deep in the wilderness. REVIEW: Hunting gets...

Review: Rebel in the Rye (Sundance) starring Nicholas Hoult

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The life of author J.D Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), from his early years as a student of Columbia lecturer Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey), through his war years, to the publication of “The Catcher in the Rye.” REVIEW: Is there an...

Review: Gold

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A down-on-his-luck businessman (Matthew McConaughey) teams up with a geologist (Edgar Ramirez) in the hopes of striking it rich deep in the jungles of Borneo. REVIEW: The early images released from Stephen Gaghan’s GOLD mildly misrepresented the film. The...

Review: The Polka King (Sundance) starring Jack Black

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Jan Lewan (Jack Black), a Pennsylvania Polka sensation who ran a $5 million ponzi scheme, to the complete ignorance of his wife (Jenny Slate) and best friend/ band-mate (Jason Schwartzman. REVIEW: THE POLKA KING is...

Review: Bushwick (Sundance) starring Dave Bautista

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: When a paramilitary force invades Brooklyn, a young woman (Brittany Snow) and a mysterious combat vet (Dave Bautista) must cross five hazardous blocks in Bushwick in order to reach a military extraction point. REVIEW: Imagine INVASION U.S.A if its...

Review: Call Me by Your Name (Sundance) starring Armie Hammer

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A young man (Timothée Chalamet) spending the summer with his parents in Italy circa 1983, find his sexuality awakened when a visiting academic (Armie Hammer) moves in to help his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) with an archaeological project. REVIEW: Up...

Review: Wilson (Sundance) starring Woody Harrelson

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A misanthropic, middle-aged man (Woody Harrelson) re-connects with his ex-wife (Laura Dern) and discovers he has a long-lost daughter. REVIEW: As exciting as it is to discover new voices at Sundance, there’s also a tradition of the sophomore stumble....

Review: The Big Sick (Sundance) with Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A Pakistani-American comedian (Kumail Nanjiani) finds himself torn between the demands of his traditional family and those of his girlfriend (Zoe Kazan) when her life is threatened by a mysterious illness. REVIEW: Judd Apatow’s listing as a producer for...

Review: Landline (Sundance) starring Jenny Slate

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Two sisters (Jenny Slate & Abby Quinn) living in 1995-NYC struggle with the revelation that one of their parents is having an affair. REVIEW: LANDLINE is the sophomore feature from writer-director Gillian Robespierre, whose debut, THE OBVIOUS CHILD, was...

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