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: Vampire Academy

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A seventeen-year-old Dhampir (half human- half vampire) named Rose (Zoey Deutch) is in training at St. Vladimir’s Academy to become a guardian- dedicated to protecting their Moroi masters (full blooded but peaceful vamps) with their lives. Her Moroi best...

Review: The Monuments Men

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: At the height of the Second World War, an Allied unit composed of museum directors, art historians, and curators is sent behind enemy lines to recover priceless works of art, stolen by the Nazis, and destined for Germany. As...

The Good, the bad and the badass: Bill Murray

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Having taken a week off for Sundance, this week we’re back with an entry focusing on the brilliant career of a man who I’m pretty sure is impossible to hate, and a legend among legends. Of course, that man...

Sundance 2014: A Complete Wrap-up & Top 10

Posted 13 years ago

As quickly as it came up, another edition of the Sundance Film Festival is in the books. Like every year, this was a ten-day-marathon of hot-ticket films, many of which you will be hearing about over the months to come....

Review: That Awkward Moment

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Three best buddies (Zac Efron, Miles Teller & Michael B. Jordan) vow to stay single and enjoy the prime of the bachelor lifestyles in New York City. This is complicated when each of the guys finds himself drawn into...

Review: Nick Offerman: American Ham (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: PARKS & RECREATION star Nick Offerman serves up “10 tips for a prosperous life” in this one-man-show recorded at New York’s Town Hall theater. REVIEW: Calling AMERICAN HAM a stand-up comedy concert film would be inaccurate as while he’s...

Review: What We Do in the Shadows (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A quartet of aging vampire roommates, living in modern-day Wellington, New Zealand, invite a group of documentary filmmakers to film them as they prepare for their yearly gala ball, where all the city’s undead meet for an evening of...

Review: Low Down (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A young girl (Elle Fanning) tries to survive a tough upbringing in seventies era-Hollywood under the care of her heroin-addicted Jazz pianist father (John Hawkes). REVIEW: LOW DOWN is based on the true-story of Amy Albany, who watched her...

Review: Young Ones (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: In a future where water is the rarest and most valuable commodity, a settler- Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon)- fights to keep his family and land safe from intruders. REVIEW: Jake Paltrow’s YOUNG ONES is easily one of the most...

Review: Wish I Was Here (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) is a struggling actor trying to juggle the responsibilities of fatherhood with the pursuit of his acting dreams of glory- while his patient wife (Kate Hudson) supports the family working at a menial data entry...

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