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!

The Harvest (Fantasia Review)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Young Andy (Charlie Tahan) lives a sheltered existence. Having spent most of his life confined to bed due to illness, his parents keep a watchful eye over all aspects of his life. His MD mother (Samantha Morton) is cold...

Review: Lucy

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) – a young student living in Taiwan – is coerced into becoming a drug mule by a ruthless gangster (Choi Min-sik). When the contents of her package are absorbed into her blood, she suddenly becomes capable...

Cybernatural (Fantasia Review)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A gang of skyping teenagers are terrorized by an anonymous user that’s somehow connected to a former classmate who committed suicide after one of them posted an embarrassing video of her online. REVIEW: CYBERNATURAL is nothing if not timely....

Kite (Fantasia Review)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A young assassin (India Eisley) tries to avenge her parents by killing-off the minions of a flesh-merchant called The Emir. With the help of a renegade cop (Samuel L. Jackson) she gets close to her target only to...

Faults (Fantasia Review)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A disgraced cult deprogrammmer (Leland Orser) is convinced by a wealthy couple to abduct and deprogram their daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who's fallen in with a cult called “Faults”. REVIEW: Anyone who was lucky enough to catch director Riley...

TV Review: The Strain Season 1, Episode 2

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 2: The Box SUMMARY: Ephraim (Corey Stoll) fights to keep control over what's he's still convinced is a virus now that the four survivors of the plane outbreak have been released. Only Abraham Setrakian (David Bradley) and the minions...

Review: I Origins (Fantasia Film Festival)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Two molecular biologists (Michael Pitt & Brit Marling) studying the biology of the human eye, make a stunning discovery that challenges their unshakable belief that everything is explicable by science. REVIEW: The notion of science vs faith is one...

The Good, the Bad and the Badass: Morgan Freeman

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of the king of cool himself, Steve McQueen. This week, we’re taking a look at an actor had his first big role the year McQueen passed away, and has arguably...

Review: The Purge: Anarchy

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: It's once again time for “The Purge”– a yearly event where, for twelve hours, all crime is legal – even murder. This time, a single mother (Carmen Ejogo) and her daughter (Zoe Soul), along with a bickering couple (Kiele...

TV Review: The Strain Season 1, Episode 1

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 1: Night Zero SUMMARY: A CDC investigator, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) is called-in to investigate a “dead plane”. When the bodies of the victims start disappearing from the morgue, he beings to suspect something otherworldly and evil is...

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