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: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Sundance)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A rebellious city kid named Rocky (Julian Dennison) and his grumpy foster uncle (Sam Neill) hide out in the sprawling New Zealand bush in order to keep from being separated by overzealous child care workers. REVIEW: I had no...

Review: The Lobster (Sundance)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: In a society where having a mate is mandatory, a newly single man (Colin Farrell) is taken to a resort where he's given forty-five days to find a mate or be turned into the animal of his choosing. REVIEW:...

31 (Sundance Review) + video

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A group of carnies are abducted and forced to play a deadly game where, to gain their freedom, they have to survive twelve hours in a labyrinth while being hunted by psycho-clowns. REVIEW: You have to admire Rob Zombie....

Review: Morris from America (Sundance)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A thirteen-year-old African-American boy (Markees Christmas) living in Heidelberg, Germany with his widowed soccer coach father (Craig Robinson) tries to fit in with the local kids and win over a rebellious classmate. REVIEW: MORRIS FROM AMERICA is a nice...

Review: The Free World (Sundance)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A former inmate (Boyd Holbrook) who's been exonerated and is trying to adjust to life on the outside becomes involved with an abused woman (Elisabeth Moss) following a violent incident. REVIEW: It feels like there are two kinds of...

Review: Other People (Sundance)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A gay comedy writer (Jesse Plemons) returns home to nurse his dying mother (Molly Shannon) while attempting to sort-out his difficult relationship with his homophobic father (Bradley Whitford). REVIEW: As serious as that plot description seems, OTHER PEOPLE is...

Review: Belgica (Sundance 2016)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Two Flemish brothers open a bar in Belgium which quickly becomes a hot-spot for the most-cutting edge local acts. As their popularity grows, the two brothers are torn apart by the realities of their fast-paced, hard-edged lifestyle. ...

Review: Mojave

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An acclaimed Hollywood auteur (Garrett Hedlund) retreats to the Mojave desert, but finds himself in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a homicidal drifter (Oscar Isaac). REVIEW: MOJAVE is a William Monahan movie through-and-through. His second directorial effort...

Review: Ip Man 3

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Master Ip Man (Donnie Yen) – trying to live a quiet live with his wife and son in 1959 Hong Kong – is drawn into a Triad land scheme run by a nefarious westerner (Mike Tyson). Meanwhile, he has...

JoBlo.com’s 2016 Sundance Preview!

Posted 11 years ago

I can’t believe it’s already that time again! As of January 21st, I’ll once again be covering the Sundance Film Festival straight from Park City, Utah on behalf of JoBlo.com. Being my seventh year covering the fest, that whole town...

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