Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,014 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: Revenge of the Green Dragons (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: In the late-eighties/early nineties, a violent gang of Chinese immigrants take the NYC underworld by storm, building up an empire focused on drug smuggling and human trafficking. REVIEW: REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS is one of the few TIFF...

Review: 99 Homes (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A newly evicted single dad (Andrew Garfield) goes to work for the greedy real estate broker (Michael Shannon) who took his family home. REVIEW: 99 HOMES is one of those movies that just grabs you by the balls from...

Review: The Theory of Everything (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The story of Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his first wife Jane (Felicity Jones) from their early courtship, to his eventual diagnosis and physical decline from motor neurone disease and scientific breakthroughs. REVIEW: I’ve seen a lot of good...

Review: Escobar: Paradise Lost (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Nick (Josh Hutcherson) is a Canadian tourist travelling through Columbia. He meets and falls in love with a young woman (Claudia Traisac) who just happens to be the niece of cocaine-kingpin Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro). Escobar quickly warms...

Review: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The story of Menahem Golan, and Yoram Globus, two Israeli cousins who, in the eighties, ran the exploitation film studio Cannon Pictures. REVIEW: I grew up watching Cannon Films. Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, Sly, Dolph, I loved ’em all....

Review: The Imitation Game (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The true story of cryptanalyst Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) who – during WW2 – helped break the Nazi Enigma Code and helped shorten the war by several years, saving millions of lives. REVIEW: It’s no wonder that so many...

Review: Foxcatcher (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) who finds himself taken under the wing of a dangerously unpredictable sponsor, John du Pont (Steve Carell). REVIEW: Going into a film festival like TIFF, a movie with the...

TV Review: The Strain, Season 1, Episode 9

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 9: The Disappeared SUMMARY: Eph (Corey Stoll) frantically searches for his estranged wife when he discovers her live-in boyfriend is among those infested by the Strigoi. REVIEW: Last week’s episode of THE STRAIN was its best since the pilot....

Review: Tusk (TIFF 2014) + Video Review!

Posted 12 years ago

Check out Chris Bumbray's Video Review below! PLOT: A popular podcaster (Justin Long) on assignment in Manitoba, falls prey to a former seafarer (Michael Parks) with a fondness for walruses. REVIEW: After a bit of a rough patch Kevin Smith...

Review: The Drop (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Bob Saginowsk (Tom Hardy) works at his cousin Marv’s (James Gandolfini) bar, which doubles as a “drop” for mob money. When the two are robbed for a relatively small amount, they realize how vulnerable they are to robberies, which...

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