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!

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Streets of Fire

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

Review: The Magnificent Seven

Posted 10 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage PLOT: A gunslinger (Denzel Washington) is recruited by a young widow (Haley Bennett) to save her town from a sadistic tycoon (Peter Sarsgaard). In order to take on his...

TV Review: Black Mirror: San Junipero & Nosedive (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: In this sampling of episodes from the third season of ‘Black Mirror’, a young woman (Mackenzie Davis) makes an unexpected connection, while an insecure office worker (Bryce Dallas Howard) struggles with her place in a society that values social...

Review: I.T.

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: An air transport tycoon (Pierce Brosnan) has his world turned upside-down by a psychotic I.T. consultant (James Frecheville). REVIEW: I can’t say I expected all that much from Pierce Brosnan’s latest vehicle, I.T. The trailers seemed pretty goofy, positioning...

Review: The Edge of Seventeen (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A rebellious teen (Hailee Steinfeld) finds her life thrown into disarray after her brother (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend (Haley Lu Richardson). REVIEW: The last few years have been slim pickings for good teen coming-of-age fare on...

Review: Sing (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a koala bear/theatrical impresario, attempts to save his run-down theater by staging a singing competition featuring a Porcupine punk singer (Scarlett Johansson), a domestic pig (Reese Witherspoon) with a dozen kids, a tough-guy mouse (Seth...

Review: Lion (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Twenty-five years after being separated from his family, a young man (Dev Patel) raised by loving adoptive parents (Nicole Kidman & David Wenham) in Australia uses Google Earth to find his natural family, who he vaguely remembers living in...

We interview The Magnificent Seven’s Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt & more!

Posted 10 years ago

This Friday, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Antoine Fuqua’s big-budget remake of the 1960 Yul Brynner/Steve McQueen classic (which was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s THE SEVEN SAMURAI) hits theaters. I was lucky enough to see it at TIFF (read my...

Review: Dog Eat Dog (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Three criminals (Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired to kidnap a gangster’s baby. REVIEW: In his introduction to DOG EAT DOG, TIFF Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes admitted that it was not a natural pick...

Review: Wakefield (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A man (Bryan Cranston) inexplicably abandons his family, moving into the family attic and spying on them from afar. REVIEW: WAKEFIELD is a movie that would never work were it not for Bryan Cranston’s performance. Literally on-screen every-second of...

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