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!

It Follows (TIFF Review)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: After a violent sexual encounter, a young woman (Maika Monroe) finds herself plagued by a deadly curse. REVIEW: When you see as many horror movies as I do, it's pretty easy to get desensitized to even the roughest batch...

Review: Maps to the Stars (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A young burn victim (Mia Wasikowska) comes to Hollywood, where she winds up working for an ageing actress (Julianne Moore) bent on a staging a comeback. REVIEW: Confounding. That's the only word I can think of that accurately describes...

Review: The Longest Week

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Conrad Valmont (Jason Bateman) – the affluent son of a prominent New York family – finds himself out on the street when his family decides to stop funding his opulent lifestyle. He moves in with his best friend Dylan...

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2014 Preview

Posted 12 years ago

It’s crazy that another edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is already upon us. The years go by so quickly, and I can’t believe this will be the sixth time that I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Robert Downey Jr.

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of former 007 Pierce Brosnan. This week’s subject is another guy who can tell you a thing or two about franchises, with him currently juggling two of them… Robert Downey...

TV Review: The Strain, Season 1, Episode 8

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 8: Creatures of the Night SUMMARY: Eph (Corey Stoll) and the rest of the gang find themselves a powerful new ally in Vasily Fet (Kevin Durand) before being pinned down by a roving gang of Strigoi as the infection...

JoBlo.com’s Top 10 Films of Summer 2014!

Posted 12 years ago

Chris By now you’ve all no doubt read all about how the summer of 2014 has been one of the weakest in memory, especially from a financial point of view, with no movies breaking $300 million domestic, yada, yada, yada....

Review: Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Fired from their cushy University gig, three para-psychologists, Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Dr. Ray Stanz (Dan Aykroyd) and Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) start their own business, “Ghostbusters”, dedicated to controlling New York City’s growing problem with ghosts....

Jamie Marks is Dead (Movie Review)

Posted 12 years ago

Watch it on VOD here! PLOT: When an outcast local teen, Jamie Marks (Noah Silver) is found dead, two of his former classmates, Adam (Cameron Monaghan) and Gracie (Morgan Saylor) try to learn more about him, and in the process...

Review: The November Man

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A retired CIA agent (Pierce Brosnan) is lured back into the service by an ex-colleague. When he’s set up on a mission, he finds himself pitted against his protégé (Luke Bracey) while attempting to protect a woman (Olga Kurylenko)...

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