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: Demolition (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Following the death of his wife, a young businessman (Jake Gyllenhaal) starts ripping apart his perfectly ordered life in an attempt to find meaning. REVIEW: DEMOLITION is the perfect example of a film that should have been an absolute...

Review: The Iron Giant: Signature Edition (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Hogarth Hughes (Eli Marienthal) lives with his mother (Jennifer Aniston) in Rockwell, a picturesque small town in 1950’s middle-America. A sci-fi buff, Hogarth’s dreams of adventure come true when he discovers a giant robot (Vin Diesel) with no memory...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Wes Craven

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the career of veteran director George Miller. This week's subject is a contemporary of Miller's who passed away tragically last week but leaves behind an incredible body of work… Wes Craven My...

Review: A Walk in the Woods

Posted 11 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2015 coverage. PLOT: Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) – an aging travel writer – decides to hike the Appalachian trail. Forced by his headstrong wife (Emma Thompson) to bring a companion, Bryson...

Review: Before We Go

Posted 11 years ago

This was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF2014 coverage. PLOT: Two strangers (Chris Evans & Alice Eve) spend the night roaming around New York City after her purse is stolen, leaving them with no cash and plenty of time...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: George Miller

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the career of the late Tony Scott. This week's subject is another director a contemporary of Scott's who – after a few inactive years – came back and made one of the...

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2015 Preview!

Posted 11 years ago

I always feel like I’m going back to college when TIFF time comes rolling around again. My favorite film festival in the world, this will mark my seventh lucky year covering the festival for JoBlo.com, and as always the lineup...

Review: We Are Your Friends

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An aspiring DJ (Zac Efron) and his buddies try to get rich in L.A without doing any real work. REVIEW: Call me crazy, but I actually went into WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS kind-of optimistic. While not a huge EDM...

Review: Queen of Earth

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Following the death of her father and the end of a relationship, Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) retreats to a secluded lake house with her long-time best friend Ginny (Katherine Waterston). Once there, the relationship starts to unravel, especially after...

Review: No Escape

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: In Southeast Asia for a new job, an American engineer (Owen Wilson) and his family are marked for death when they find themselves in the middle of a deadly coup, where the goal is to murder all foreigners....

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