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: Calvary (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A kindly Irish priest (Brendan Gleeson) is told by a parishioner that in one week, he will be murdered in retaliation for crimes committed by the Catholic Church. Not knowing if the threat is real, the priest tries to...

Cooties (Sundance Review)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A wanna-be horror novelist turned substitute teacher (Elijah Wood) has to contend with a school full of rabid children when one of them is infected by a virus from a tainted chicken nugget. REVIEW: The only downside about attending...

Blue Ruin (Sundance Review)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A vagrant’s (Macon Blair) quiet existence is destroyed when he discovers that the man who murdered his parents has just been released from prison. REVIEW: BLUE RUIN does the impossible: it manages to bring something new to the “revenge...

Review: Boyhood (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The adolescence of a Texas-boy named Mason (Ellar Salmon)- from the time he enters grade one to his first day at college. REVIEW: Twelve years is a long time to spend on one movie. For years, there have been...

Review: Camp X-Ray (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Kristen Stewart) stationed as a guard at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with a charismatic prisoner (Payman Maadi). REVIEW: A movie about Guantanamo Bay is sure to divide audiences. Now that CAMP X-RAY has premiered...

Cold in July (Sundance Review)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A small-town Texas family man (Michael C. Hall) kills an intruder and has to contend with the dead man’s vengeful father (Sam Shepard)- although all is not as it seems… REVIEW: When the first 2014 Sundance titles were announced,...

The Guest (Sundance Review)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A former soldier (Dan Stevens) makes his way to the family home of a fallen comrade, and quickly becomes a beloved, indefinite house-guest. However, the family’s teenage children (Maika Monroe & Brendan Meyer) soon begin to suspect this former...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Cate Blanchett

Posted 13 years ago

Chris In last week’s column, we took a look at the career of actor Matthew McConaughey, an actor many of us once thought of as washed-up, but has since renewed his career to the extent that he’s now a newly...

Review: The Guest (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

TV Review: True Detective Episode 2: Seeing Things (SPOILERS)

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Check back every week following Sunday night’s airing of TRUE DETECTIVE for an episode rundown/ review. Here’s this week’s- but beware- SPOILERS ahead. Episode summary: More of Cohle’s (Matthew McConaughey) tragic past is revealed as his investigation with Hart...

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