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: Byzantium (Directed by Neil Jordan) (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Two centuries old vampires, Clara and Eleanor (Gemma Atherton and Saoirse Ronan), on the run from the minions of their ancient order, hide out in a small coastal town, where Eleanor strikes up a romance with a young haemophiliac,...

Review: Aftershock (Directed by Nicolas Lopez) (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: An American tourist (Eli Roth) partying in Chile with his two buddies, finds himself trapped in a coastal town hit by a terrible earthquake. Making matters worse, the inmates of the local prison escape in the chaos, and take...

Review: Aftershock (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

Review: Byzantium (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Two centuries old vampires, Clara and Eleanor (Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan), on the run from the minions of their ancient order, hide out in a small coastal town, where Eleanor strikes up a romance with a young haemophiliac,...

Review: Passion (Directed by Brian DePalma) (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: An ambitious businesswoman (Noomi Rapace) has an idea stolen by her ruthless boss (Rachel McAdams). The two become embroiled in a high-stakes game of one up-man-ship, that eventually turns murderous REVIEW: A sexually charged thriller, PASSION, to hear it...

Review: Sightseers (Directed by Ben Wheatley) (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe) are a somewhat socially inept couple, who decide to take a cross-country trip in Chris’ caravan. Tina soon realizes that Chris is prone to murdering the obnoxious people he considers to be...

Review: The Lords of Salem (Directed by Rob Zombie) (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie)- a radio DJ, receives a strange package with an LP recording by a band called “The Lords”. After playing it on the air, she begins to sink into a pit of despair, drugs and degradation,...

Review: The Lords of Salem (TIFF 12)

Posted 14 years ago

Review: End of Watch (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Two LAPD beat cops (Jake Gyllenhaal & Michael Pena) run afoul of the street-level foot soldiers of a Mexican drug cartel. REVIEW: David Ayer’s END OF WATCH continues this writer/director’s fascination with the LAPD, but in sharp contrast to...