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: Argo (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Hot on the heels of the Iranian revolution, the American embassy in Tehran is overrun, and the staff is taken hostage. Six Americans manage to escape, and are taken in by the Canadian ambassador. Knowing their days are numbered,...

Review: The Iceman (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The true story of hit-man Richard Kuklinshi (Michael Shannon)- who allegedly killed over 100 people at the mob’s behest, while simultaneously existing as a devoted family man with a loving wife (Winona Ryder) and two adoring daughters. REVIEW: THE...

Review: No One Lives (Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura) (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A vicious gang of home invaders kidnap a motorist (Luke Evans), only to have the tables turned on them by their victim, who quickly reveals himself to an even more vicious killer, with one motto: no one lives. REVIEW:...

Review: Seven Psychopaths (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Marty (Colin Farrell) is a struggling, alcoholic screenwriter, trying to finish up a screenplay called SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. Little does he know, the dog-napping scheme of his best friend Billy (Sam Rockwell) is going to give him some first-hand knowledge...

Review: To The Wonder (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A Frenchwoman (Olga Kurylenko) and her young daughter are brought to rural Oklahoma to live with the enigmatic Neil (Ben Affleck). REVIEW: TO THE WONDER is Terrence Malick as his most pretentious, or rather- Malick-y. Formerly a director that...

Review: Cloud Atlas (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A multi-narrative epic, following the evolution of a group of souls throughout hundreds of years- from the adventures of a 19th century slave trader, to two dueling composers in pre-WW2 Britain, to a journalist fighting a corrupt corporation in...

Review: The Master (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A WW2 veteran, turned aimless drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) falls under the sway of the charismatic head of a new religion. REVIEW: The oeuvre of Paul Thomas Anderson has, thus far, had two distinctly different styles, with the first part...

Review: Looper (Tiff 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In the year 2047, Joseph Simmons (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works as a “Looper”- where gangsters from the year 2077 zap people marked for execution back thirty years, where Simmons and his cronies can more easily dispose of their bodies. Eventually,...

Review: The Place Beyond The Pines (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Luke (Ryan Gosling) is a motorcycle rider, eking out a living doing stunt riding at travelling carnivals. When he learns that a waitress (Eva Mendes) he had a fling with a year ago bore him a son, he vows...

Review: Dredd 3D (TIFF 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In the dystopian metropolis of Mega City One, law is enforced by the judges, a police force that serves as judge, jury and executioner. Of the judges, Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is a legend. He’s assigned a young trainee,...

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