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!

Movie Reviews

Review: The F Word (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) thinks he’s met the girl of his dreams after a chance encounter with Chantry (Zoe Kazan) at a party. He’s devastated to learn that she has a boyfriend, but the two nonetheless become friends. As he...

Review: Man of Tai Chi (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A young Tai Chi master (Tiger Chen) is recruited by an enigmatic multimillionaire (Keanu Reeves) to fight in a series of brutal underground fights, where he pits his traditionally peaceful methods against a series of brutal opponents. REVIEW: MAN...

Review: Enemy (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A university professor (Jake Gyllenhaal) discovers that he has a doppelganger in an out-of-work actor, with a pregnant wife (Sarah Gadon) and some potentially dangerous hobbies. REVIEW: There are so many things that are interesting about ENEMY, not the...

Movie Review: Horns (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe) wakes up one morning to find horns growing out of his forehead. Soon, he discovers that when people look at them, they reveal their deepest, darkest secrets, giving Ig the opportunity to solve his girlfriend's...

Review: Devil’s Knot (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The true story of the arrest and trial of the West Memphis Three, from the perspectives of the mother (Reese Witherspoon) of one of the victims, and the private investigator (Colin Firth) who works for the defence. REVIEW: Director...

Review: Dallas Buyers Club (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a hard-living, homophobic Texan , who learns that he’s HIV positive. With AIDS treatment still a mystery in that era (it takes place in 1986), Woodruff takes on the FDA, and...

Movie Reviews

Movie Review: The Green Inferno (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A group of college activists travel deep into the Peruvian jungle to try and save a lost tribe’s habitat. When their plane crashes, the students find themselves at the mercy of the tribe, who- unbeknownst to them- are a...

Review: Parkland (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, told from the perspective of the people of Dallas, including the doctors that tried to save the president (Zac Efron, Colin Hanks), Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who infamously caught the assassination on 8mm...

Review: Gravity (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two astronauts- medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and veteran flight commander Matt Kowalksky (George Clooney)- find themselves adrift in space after debris from a satellite causes a catastrophic incident. REVIEW: Every once in a while, a genre...

Review: Rush (TIFF 2013)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The real-life rivalry between Formula One racers Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) and James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth), from their early days on the F3 circuit to the peak of their fame in the 1976 racing season. REVIEW: It’s ironic that...

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