Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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: The Expendables 2

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Thanks to their antics in the first film, The Expendables’ leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is in hoc to shadowy CIA agent Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) to the tune of $5 million. His only way to get off Church’s...

Fantasia 2012 Wrap-Up!

Posted 14 years ago

And so- another edition of the Fantasia Film Festival is in the books. Truth be told, going into the festival this year I was a little unsure as to how it was going to go down, as the films on...

Review: The Viral Factor (Directed by Dante Lam) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After taking a bullet to the head on an assignment, special agent Jon (Jay Chou) is given only weeks to live. He goes home to Taiwan to see his mother, who reveals to him that years ago, his degenerate...

The Ten Spot: The Best of The Expendables — Part 1

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, is shaping up to be the one of the most star-studded action team up...

Review: Compliance

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: During the night shift at a fast food restaurant, a man calls in pretending to be a cop. He tells the manager (Ann Dowd) that one of her employees (Dreama Walker) is a thief, and instructs her to lock...

Review: Toad Road (Directed by Jason Banker) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: James (James Davison) wakes up in the middle of the woods, with only a vague memory of how he got there. He flashes back to his relationship with Sara (Sara Jones), a fresh-faced student, who’s drawn into the wild,...

Review: 2 Days in New York

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Marion (Julie Delpy) is a French artist living in New York, with her boyfriend, Mingus (Chris Rock). On the eve of her first major art show, Marion brings her father (Albert Delpy) and slutty sister (Alexia Landeau) to Manhattan...

Review: Despite the Gods (Directed by Penny Vozniak) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Fresh from her well-received indie, SURVEILLANCE, director Jennifer Lynch is invited to shoot a big-budget Bollywood film in Mumbai. Titled NAGIN: THE SNAKE GODESS, Lynch’s collision with the Bollywood film industry ends disastrously, and this is a chronicle of...

Review: The Bourne Legacy

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Running parallel to the events of THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, the agents of a Treadstone shadow program called Outcome- which uses drugs to enhance physical strength and intelligence in it’s operatives, find themselves hunted down by the minions of government...

Review: Grabbers (Directed by Jon Wright) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A sleepy island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens. That’s the bad news. The good news is, the aliens are allergic to alcohol, and they’re in Ireland . Yeah, the aliens are fucked. REVIEW: An...

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