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!

Review: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Ruth (Rooney Mara) and Bill (Casey Affleck) are outlaws- who scrape by pulling small-time jobs in the hills of Texas. When they’re ambushed by the cops, and Ruth shoots a local deputy- Patrick (Ben Foster), Bill takes the wrap...

Review: Kill Your Darlings (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The early years of “The Beat Generation”, following Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) through their time at Columbia University, through their involvement with a murder. REVIEW: I can’t say KILL YOUR...

Review: A.C.O.D (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Carter (Adam Scott) is an A.C.O.D- Adult Child of Divorce. After an upbringing being bombarded by his half-crazed parents, Hugh (Richard Jenkins) and Melissa (Catherine O’Hara), Carter’s gone on to become a successful, well-adjusted adult, with a thriving business,...

Review: Jobs (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The life and career of Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher)- founder of Apple Computers, from his early days with Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad), through his battles with Apple CEO John Sculley (Matthew Modine) in the eighties, to his eventual return...

Review: Sweetwater (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In late 1800’s New Mexico, a young bride’s husband is murdered by a fanatical religious leader. She cuts a swath of vengeance across the territory. REVIEW: Well, they can’t all be winners, can they? Even a great festival like...

Review: Escape From Tomorrow (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A newly unemployed father, on vacation with his wife and two kids at Disney World, begins to lose his sanity over the course of their final day at the park. But is he really crazy, or is something sinister...

Review: Hell Baby (Sundance)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Jack (Rob Corddry) and Vanessa (Leslie Bibb) are an expectant couple, who move into an infamously cursed house in a run-down section of New Orleans. Within days, Vanessa starts acting strangely, and Jack becomes convinced she’s somehow possessed. Meanwhile,...

Review: Lovelace (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The true-story of Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried)- the first porn megastar. Married at a young age to hustler Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard)- she’s essentially forced into making the film, DEEP THROAT, that makes her a seventies icon, but under...

Review: The Way, Way Back (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Fourteen-year-old Duncan is forced to spend the summer with his mother Pam (Toni Collette) at her boyfriend Trent’s (Steve Carell) summer house by the beach. His only refuge is a nearby water-park, managed by the cooler-than-cool Owen (Sam Rockwell),...

Review: The East (Sundance)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: An undercover operative (Britt Marling) for a private security group is sent to infiltrate a radical cell of activist extremists- called “The East”. As she gets deeper and deeper into the cell, her cover is jeopardized when she falls...

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