Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,015 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: A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A seventies graphic designer, Charles Swan III (Charlie Sheen) tries to sort out his life after being dumped by his girlfriend (Katheryn Winnick). REVIEW: A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III was a film I really wanted...

2013 Sundance Wrap-Up! (including our top 10)

Posted 14 years ago

And so another edition of the Sundance Film Festival is over and done with. Once again, I was lucky enough to attend for JoBlo.com (my fourth time), and I had an absolute blast. I ended up reviewing twenty-nine movies; as...

Review: C.O.G (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After a falling-out with his parents, David (Jonathan Groff) or Samuel, as he now chooses to go by, heads to Oregon to work as an apple picker. He hopes this will be his defining moment- a la John Steinbeck,...

Review: Magic Magic (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Alicia (Juno Temple) is a fragile young woman, who comes to Chile to visit her cousin, Sarah (Emily Browning). After Sarah has to leave for an important exam, Alicia’s left alone with her friends, Agustin (Agustin Silva), Brink (Michael...

Review: In Fear, directed by Jeremy Lovering (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Tom (Iain De Caestecker) is eager to impress his new girlfriend Lucy (Alice Englert), so- on the way to a music festival in Ireland, he suggests they spend a romantic evening at a luxury hotel. While trying to find...

Review: Warm Bodies

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: R (Nicholas Hoult) is a zombie, but that doesn’t mean that he’s a bad guy. Along with his best buddy, M (Rob Corddry)- or rather MMMMMM…, he spends his days wandering around the airport that’s home to the thousands...

Review: Breathe In (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The dynamic of an apparently happy suburban family is shattered when they agree to house a foreign exchange student. REVIEW: Right from the start of BREATHE IN, it’s obvious the suburban family headed by Guy Pearce and Amy Ryan...

Review: In Fear (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

Review: Bullet to the Head (Chris Bumbray’s review)

Posted 14 years ago

[read John Fallon’s review of this film HERE] PLOT: When hitman Jimmy “Bobo” (Sylvester Stallone) is set up on a hit and his partner is killed by Keegan (Jason Momoa)- a mercenary, he goes for revenge against his employers. Meanwhile,...

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