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!

Review: The Hallow (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A conservationist (Joseph Mawle) brings his wife (Bojana Novakovic) and infant son to Ireland, where he’s been sent to survey an ancient forest that the locals think is haunted by a horde of monstrous faeries. REVIEW: THE HALLOW’s turned...

Review: Turbo Kid (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: It is the year 1997. Mankind has been mostly obliterated, and the few survivors try to survive the radioactive wasteland. Enter “The Kid” (Munro Chambers) who stumbles upon the remains of famed superhero “Turbo Man.” Donning his super-suit, “Turbo...

Review: The Nightmare (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A documentary focusing on the phenomenon of sleep paralysis as experienced by eight strangers. REVIEW: Rodney Ascher’s THE NIGHTMARE should have been a slamdunk. His SHINING doc, ROOM 237, was unsettling even if most if the interpretations put across...

Review: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A documentary about The National Lampoon, which went from being a fringe humor magazine founded by three Harvard grads to a multimedia conglomerate that conquered Hollywood. REVIEW: It's crazy to think about how much 'National Lampoon' has changed the...

Review: Experimenter (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) who – in the sixties – conducted a landmark behavioral experiment concerned with the willingness of participants to inflict pain on others if told to do so by...

Review: Cop Car (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Two ten-year-old boys steal an idle cop car, only to find themselves hunted by the car’s owner, a corrupt local sheriff. REVIEW: COP CAR is the kind of movie Sam Peckinpah would have made if he’d ever gone to...

Review: Sleeping With Other People (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A promiscuous man (Jason Sudeikis) and woman (Alison Brie) meet in a sex addiction meeting and embark on a platonic friendship, constantly fighting the temptation to sleep with each other lest it ruin the relationship. REVIEW: One of the...

Review: Wild Card

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a freelance Las Vegas bodyguard who dreams of retiring to Venice – a dream that is hampered by the fact that he’s a gambling addict and tends to burn through whatever meager funds he...

Review: Black or White

Posted 12 years ago

This review originally ran with our 2014 TIFF coverage PLOT: After his wife dies, a grandfather (Kevin Costner) has to fight for custody of his biracial granddaughter against the girl’s father and grandmother (Octavia Spencer). REVIEW: There was a moment...

Review: I Am Michael (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A young gay activist (James Franco) renounces his homosexuality and starts a new life as a born-again Christian pastor. REVIEW: I AM MICHAEL is nothing if not controversial. Apparently based on a true story, Justin Kelly’s film gives James...

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