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: Austenland (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Jane (Keri Russell) is a lonely gal in her mid-thirties, whose love of Jane Austen has turned into an obsession. Not only is her apartment a shrine to Mr. Darcy of PRIDE & PREJUDICE, but her love life is...

Review: Who is Dayani Cristal (Sundance 2013)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The body of an anonymous migrant worker- who was trying to make it over the U.S border is discovered in the Arizona desert. The only clue as to his identity is a tattoo on his chest reading “Dayani Cristal”....

Review: Mama

Posted 14 years ago

LOOK OUT FOR THE ARROW’S REVIEW OVER THE WEEKEND! PLOT: After his company goes belly-up during the 2008 recession, a father- in a moment of panic, kills his wife and takes his two daughters to a secluded cabin to murder...

Review: Mama

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After his company goes belly-up during the 2008 recession, a father- in a moment of panic, kills his wife and takes his two daughters to a secluded cabin to murder them. They’re saved by a terrifying specter- which they...

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival preview!

Posted 14 years ago

It’s that time again! Yessssss!!! For the last few years, I’ve been lucky enough to attend the Sundance Film Festival on behalf of JoBlo.com, and once again- lucky guy that I am, I’ll be heading back to beautiful Park City,...

Review: Gangster Squad

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In post WW2-L.A, a tough but honest cop, John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) is tasked by LAPD chief Parker (Nick Nolte) to assemble a unit devoted to wiping out gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). REVIEW: GANGSTER SQUAD starts with the...

Review: Quartet

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: At a retirement home for aged musicians, three members of a former quartet (Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay and Pauline Collins) are shocked when their long-estranged fourth member (Maggie Smith) becomes a fellow resident. With an annual concert approaching, and...

Review: Not Fade Away

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In the mid-sixties, a group of suburban New Jersey teens try to make it big as a rock band. One of them, Douglas (John Magaro) battles with his cantankerous father (James Gandolfini) while pursuing the girl (Bella Heathcote) of...

Our Top 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013!

Posted 14 years ago

And so, another year begins. For film buffs, January is always a pretty slow month, but even if that upcoming crop of films don’t look so hot, you can rest assured that Hollywood has plenty of big films up their...

Review: Promised Land

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Steve Butler (Matt Damon) works for a natural gas company. Along with his colleague Sue (Frances McDormand), Steve travels from small-town to small-town, encouraging farmers to sell their land rights so his company can pump for gas. Steve has...

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