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!

Sundance 2015 Wrap-up and Top 10!

Posted 12 years ago

I knew it would be great at it certainly was. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the 2015 Sundance Film Festival is officially in the books. Over ten days I managed to see and review thirty-two movies, and you know what? I...

Review: Jupiter Ascending

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) – a lowly janitor – discovers she’s actually the reincarnation of the Queen of the Universe when killers sent by the evil Balem Abrasax (Eddie Redmayne) try to assassinate her. Now, her only hope of...

Review: Zipper (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A hotshot prosecutor (Patrick Wilson) preparing for a congressional run unwisely starts frequenting a high-end escort agency. With his life now under a microscope, he’s shocked to discover that his next big case means investigating the very agency he’s...

Review: Results (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Two personal trainers (Guy Pearce & Cobie Smulders) struggle with relationship issues while trying to get a slovenly millionaire (Kevin Corrigan) into shape. REVIEW: There’s a certain kind of movie I dread writing about at film festivals. It’s not...

Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A fifteen-year-old girl (Bel Powley) living with her free-spirited mom (Kristen Wiig) in 1970’s San Francisco, falls into a torrid affair with her mother’s boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård). REVIEW: THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL is yet another of the...

Review: Unexpected (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Samantha (Cobie Smulders) is a thirty-year-old teacher at an under-funded inner-city Chicago high school. With her school on the verge of closing, Samantha discovers that she’s pregnant, a predicament she shares with her favorite student, the seemingly college-bound Jasmine...

Review: Dope (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a high-achieving, lovably geeky teen trying to survive on the mean streets of Inglewood. With his eyes on Harvard, Malcolm finds his plans for the future jeopardized when he inadvertently winds up in the possession...

Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: In the summer of 1971, Stanford psychology professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) recruits students to participate in a study simulating prison conditions. The role of guard and prisoner are assigned randomly. It doesn’t take long for the experiment...

Review: Nasty Baby (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A Manhattan gay couple (Sebastian Silva & Tunde Adebimpe) try to have a baby with their best friend (Kristen Wiig) but wind up dealing with a dilemma that shakes all of them to the core and tests their devotion...

Review: Slow West (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A Scottish tenderfoot (Kodi Smit-McPhee) journeys through the American West to reunite with his true love. He’s aided by a rough and tumble bounty hunter (Michael Fassbender) with an agenda of his own. REVIEW: SLOW WEST is another hidden...

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