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 Good, the Bad and the Badass: Denzel Washington

Posted 13 years ago

Chris After taking a week-off for TIFF following my breakdown of movie composer Hans Zimmer’s amazing career, The Good, The Bad & The Badass is back with another column looking at an actor whose many great films often featured iconic...

Exclusive 1:1 interview with Jake Gyllenhaal from Prisoners

Posted 13 years ago

It's hard to believe that Jake Gyllenhaal hit TIFF this year with not one, but two brilliant collaborations with director Denis Villeneuve. Before they shot PRISONERS, they teamed on a micro-budget thriller called ENEMY (read my review here), and the...

Review: Blue Caprice

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The true story of the men behind the 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks. John Allen Muhammad (Isaiah Washington) is living in Antigua with his children when he meets a fatherless boy, Lee (Tequan Richmond) who he takes under his wing....

Movie Review: Oculus (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Tim (Brenton Thwaites) has been locked up in a mental hospital since he was nine years old, when he apparently shot his father (Rory Cochrane) who had just killed his mother (Katee Sackhoff). He's released after his 21st birthday,...

Review: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The breakup of a marriage as seen through both perspectives, HIM (James McAvoy) and HER (Jessica Chastain). REVIEW: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY is one of the most ambitious pieces of work to hit TIFF this year in that...

Review: Starred Up (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Nineteen-year-old Eric (Jack O’Connell) is transferred to a maximum security prison, ruled by a fierce gang run by lifer Neville (Ben Mendelsohn) who also happens to be the boy’s father. Having not seen each other since Eric was a...

Exclusive 1:1 interviews with Melissa Leo and Paul Dano from Prisoners

Posted 13 years ago

Interviewing Paul Dano and Melissa Leo turned out to be one of the tougher assignments I had at this year’s TIFF. It’s not that they weren’t perfectly charming (both Leo and Dano were exceptionally nice), but the issue is that...

Exclusive 1:1 interview with Maria Bello from Prisoners

Posted 13 years ago

I’ve been a fan of Maria Bello‘s for a long time- back from her time on a short-lived Scott Bakula spy-show, MR & MRS. SMITH, to her amazing work in movies like THE COOLER, WORLD TRADE CENTER, and A HISTORY...

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Movie Review: The Sacrament (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two journalists (Joe Swanberg & AJ Bowen) with VICE, follow their friend Patrick (Kentucker Audley) on a trip to visit his sister Caroline (Amy Seimetz) who's joined a cult called Eden Parrish, run by the messianic "Father" (Gene Jones)....

Review: Tracks (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Australian adventurer Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) who, in 1977, set off on a nine-month journey across the Outback with nothing but a team of camels and her dog for company. REVIEW: TRACKS is a major...

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