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: Frankenweenie

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Young Victor Frankenstein is a loner, with his only refuge being science and his beloved dog Sparky- who’s promptly hit by a car and killed. Victor is able to bring him back to life via his scientific know-how, but-...

Review: Everything or Nothing- The Untold Story of 007

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A behind the scenes look at the creation of the James Bond series, from its origins with writer Ian Fleming’s novels, to the early days of the franchise with Sean Connery, all the way through to the newest film,...

Review: Taken 2

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is back. While on vacation in Istanbul, Mills and his ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen) are captured by relatives of the men who took his daughter in the last film. Now Mills must rely...

Review: V/H/S

Posted 14 years ago

Note: This review was originally published as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage in January, PLOT: A group of petty criminals are hired to steal a VHS tape from a spooky mansion. But first, they’ll have to go through the...

Exclusive 1:1 interview with Seven Psychopaths’ star Sam Rockwell

Posted 14 years ago

One of the hottest titles to play at TIFF this year was SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, Martin McDonagh’s brilliant takedown of the hip-gangster genre. Boasting a cast including Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, and Tom Waits, SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS was an intriguing...

Review: Butter

Posted 14 years ago

(This review was originally posted on September 15th, 2011, as part of the TIFF) PLOT: Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell) is the butter-carving champ of the Midwest, and along with his domineering wife, Laura (Jennifer Garner) is the idol of his...

Review: Hotel Transylvania

Posted 14 years ago

(This review was originally posted on September 17th, as part of the TIFF) PLOT: After losing his wife to a vicious human mob, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) starts HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, a refuge for holidaying monsters. On his daughter Mavis’ (Selena...

We sit down for an exclusive 1:1 interview with Looper director Rian Johnson

Posted 14 years ago

LOOPER was the first film I checked out at this year’s edition of the Toronto Film Festival, and what a way to start! I’d been following the development of LOOPER ever since it was announced. The director, Rian Johnson, has...

Interview: Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby (Dredd 3D)

Posted 14 years ago

Less than an hour after arriving in Toronto to cover the film festival and picking up my press credentials, I made my way across town to participate in the DREDD 3D junket, which was due to premiere that evening as...