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: 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,...

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2012 Preview!

Posted 14 years ago

Well folks- it’s time again for the Toronto International Film Festival, and once again, I’ll be covering it for JoBlo.com. As always, I’m extremely excited, as a visit to TIFF is like a visit to Mecca for me. It gives...

Review: Sleepwalk With Me

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A stand-up comic (Mike Birbiglia) juggles the demands of his career with those of his devoted girlfriend (Lauren Ambrose) – who’s looking to settle down. Meanwhile, he struggles with bouts of sleepwalking. REVIEW: As I write this, I’m kicking...

Review: The Possession

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A divorced father (Jeffrey Dean-Morgan) becomes convinced his daughter is possessed by a malicious Hebrew demon, called a dybbuk, after she picks up a mysterious box at a yard sale. REVIEW: Almost forty years ago, William Friedkin made the...

My Top 10 Favorite Movies from Summer 2012 (Chris Bumbray)

Posted 14 years ago

And so, the summer of 2012 is finally winding down. Going into it, many of us were overwhelmed by the incredible number of huge tent pole films being released, and sure enough- in terms of box office dollars 2012 was...

Review: Premium Rush

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: An NYC bike messenger- Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is chased by a dirty cop (Michael Shannon) who wants to get his hands on the envelope Wilee’s supposed to deliver on the other side of town. REVIEW: I was actually kinda...

Review: Hit & Run

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A former getaway driver (Dax Shepard) now living in Witness Protection finds himself chased by his old associates when he ditches the program to drive his girlfriend (Kristen Bell) to an important job interview in LA. REVIEW: HIT AND...

Tony Scott Tribute: We check into the Director’s Cut of his 1989 film Revenge

Posted 14 years ago

Any self-respecting film fan, particularly one like me, who came of age in the late-eighties/early-nineties, was absolutely horrified to learn about Tony Scott’s suicide. While the mitigating factors that led to the suicide are still in dispute, by all accounts...

The Ten Spot: The Best of The Expendables — Part 2

Posted 14 years ago

Stallone. Schwarzenegger. Willis. Van Damme. Statham. Li. Lundgren. Norris. Fuck yeah. Chris THE EXPENDABLES 2, whether or not it turns out to be a good movie (don’t worry- it is), is shaping up to be the one of the most...

Review: Why Stop Now

Posted 14 years ago

NOTE: WHY STOP NOW was originally reviewed in January when it played Sundance under the name PREDISPOSED. PLOT: A piano prodigy (Jesse Eisenberg) must escort his junkie mother (Melissa Leo) to rehab in time for him to hit his audition...

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