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: All Is Bright

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Newly paroled Dennis (Paul Giamatti) returns home to discover that his wife, Therese (Amy Landecker) has taken up with his former friend Rene (Paul Rudd) and that their daughter thinks he’s dead. With nowhere to turn in his small...

Review: Bad Milo

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A mild-mannered accountant (Ken Marino) is horrified to discover that he has a murderous monster living in his anus. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Ouch. REVIEW: And here I thought I had seen it all. I...

Review: On the Job

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two inmates (Gerald Anderson & Joel Torre) are hired out by their prison as assassins. Released on day-passes, the two men eliminate political targets with ties to corrupt government officials, and as a reward are able to send money...

Review: The Dirties

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two bullied high schoolers, Matt (Matthew Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams) are making a movie in which they act out their revenge fantasies against a group of bullies called “The Dirties”. But as the film gets more and more...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Sean Connery

Posted 13 years ago

Chris With all due respect to previous Good, Bad & The Badass entries, Sigourney Weaver, Denzel Washington and George Clooney, as good as they are, nobody matches up to this week’s subject. Look up “badass” in the dictionary, and I’m...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Sigourney Weaver

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of a downright icon when it comes to being a badass- Denzel Washington. But, as good as he is, I think he just might be beat in that department by...

Review: Salinger

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The life and legacy of author J.D Salinger, who, after receiving universal acclaim with “The Catcher in the Rye” became a virtual recluse. REVIEW: J.D Salinger is without a doubt one of the most important literary voices of the...

Movie Review: Almost Human (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two years after being abducted by aliens, Mark (Josh Ethier) returns to his rural small town to reclaim his long lost girlfriend (Vanessa Leigh) and to prepare it for alien colonization through a brutal reign of violence and terror....

Exclusive 1:1 interview with Hugh Jackman from Prisoners

Posted 13 years ago

I’ve always been a fan of Hugh Jackman’s. Who wouldn’t be? The guy can seemingly do it all. Not only does he make an iconically badass Wolverine, but on the side the guy can sing and dance like nobody’s business...

2013 Toronto International Film Festival Wrap-Up and Top 10!

Posted 13 years ago

It’s hard to believe but the Toronto International Film Festival has already come and gone. This year marked my fifth trip in a row to TIFF, and I gotta say this may well have been the best year ever for...

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