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!

Exclusive 1:1 Interview:The Equalizer’s Chloe Grace Moretz

Posted 12 years ago

Since bursting onto the scene with her instantly iconic performance as Hit-Girl in KICK-ASS, Chloe Grace Moretz has defied expectations by taking-on a wide variety of roles, proving herself equally adept at pretty much every genre there is. Whether it’s...

Exclusive 1:1 Interview with The Equalizer’s Marton Czokas

Posted 12 years ago

Marton Czokas is one of those actors I’ve always found to be really underrated. I first remember seeing him in XXX as the Bond villain-style baddie. While the movie itself hasn’t aged well, Czokas was actually quite good and his...

TV Review: The Strain, Season 1, Episode 11

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 11: The Third Rail SUMMARY: Setrakian (David Bradley) takes Eph (Corey Stoll), Vasily (Kevin Durand) and Nora (Mia Maestro) on a quest to find the master’s lair. REVIEW: After last week’s rather slow episode, which spent an awful lot...

Exclusive Interview w/ Denzel Washington & Antoine Fuqua for The Equalizer

Posted 12 years ago

It’s not every day that you get to me one of your idols. When Sony invited me to take part in THE EQUALIZER junket, I was excited but also more than a little terrified. Denzel Washington is one of my...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Simon Pegg

Posted 12 years ago

Chris It's been a couple of weeks since the last Good/Bad/Badass due to the Toronto International Film Festival. Our last column was on Robert Downey Jr., whose film, THE JUDGE, was the opening movie of the fest. This week's subject...

TIFF 2014 Wrap-up & Top 10!

Posted 12 years ago

Hard as it is to believe, but the 2014 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is already over and done with. Whew! Even though this was my sixth time attending the festival on behalf of JoBlo.com, I have to...

Review: Time Out Of Mind (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A man (Richard Gere) tries to come to terms with his homelessness during a cruel New York winter. REVIEW: While no one would ever call THE MESSSENGER or RAMPART conventional films, there’s no doubt that Oren Moverman’s TIME OUT...

Review: Hector and the Search for Happiness

Posted 12 years ago

This was orginally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: Hector (Simon Pegg) – an unhappy psychiatrist – leaves his adoring girlfriend (Rosamund Pike) behind on a globe-trotting adventure to discover the secret of happiness. REVIEW: HECTOR AND...

Exclusive Interview: Simon Pegg & Rosamund Pike

Posted 12 years ago

Being based in Montreal, not exactly a mecca for film junkets, it’s rare that I get to sit down 1:1, or in this case 1:2 with big stars like Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike. Lucky for me, attending the Toronto...

Review: The Zero Theorem

Posted 12 years ago

This was originally reviewed as part of our Fantasia 2014 coverage. PLOT: Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) – a chronically reclusive number cruncher – is assigned by his mysterious boss “Management” to work on “The Zero Theorem” an unprovable mathematical theory...

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