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: Space Battleship Yamato (Directed by Takashi Yamazaki) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In the year 2199, the Earth is on its last legs after a campaign of terror and destruction waged by a alien force called the Gamilas. Humanity’s only hope lies with the crew of Space Battleship Yamato- which is...

Review: Hope Springs

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In order to save their stagnant marriage, a middle aged couple (Meryl Streep & Tommy Lee Jones) head to Maine for an intensive, week-long marathon of couples therapy, given by an unconventional psychologist (Steve Carell). REVIEW: First off, this...

Fantasia 2012: Chained (Directed by Jennifer Lynch)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A young boy, Tim, and his mother (Julia Ormond) are abducted by a cab-driving serial killer, Bob (Vincent D’Onofrio). After his mother is killed, Bob decides to raise Tim, who he renames Rabbit, as his own son. Ten years...

Review: Black’s Game (Directed by Oskar Por Axelsson) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Reykjavik- 1999. On the eve of the millennium, Stebbi (Thor Kristjansson) a university student- arrested in a drunken brawl reacquaints himself with a childhood friend, Toti (Johannes Hauker Johannesson) – a hulking petty crook. Joining Toti’s crew, Stebbi and...

Review: Doomsday Book (Directed by Kim Ji-woon & Yim Pil-sung) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A South Korean anthology of sci-fi tales. The first, finds a gawky military researcher exposed to some bad beef, which quickly unleashes a zombie plague of apocalyptic proportions on Seoul. In the second, a repairman for a company that...

Review: Total Recall

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In the future, where a battle-scarred Earth has been divided into two hemispheres; the wealthy Western Euromerica, and the more downtrodden Eastern Colony, Doug Quaid (Colin Farrell) is a humble factory worker, living with his beautiful wife Lori (Kate...

Review: Eurocrime! (Directed by Mike Malloy) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A comprehensive look at the Italian cops & robbers films, aka- poliziotteschi that ruled European cinemas in the seventies. REVIEW: I’ve always had a thing for Eurocrime action flicks. An offshoot of both Spaghetti Westerns, and American cop flicks...

Review: The Human Race (Directed by Paul Hough) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Seventy-nine random people who happened to be on the same city block, disappear in a flash of white light, and wake up in mysterious surroundings. They are told that they’ve been forrcibly entered into a marathon, where they’re forced...

Review: Excision (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord) is a high-school outcast with two things on her mind: losing her virginity to school stud Adam (Jeremy Sumpter), and perfecting her do-it-yourself organ transplantation system in time to operate in her Cystic-Fibrosis affected sister. Ya...

Review: Dragon aka Wu Xia (Starring Donnie Yen) (Fantasia 2012)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Liu Jin-xi (Donnie Yen) is a pillar of his community. Having mysteriously shown up ten years ago, he fell in love with and married Ayu (Tang Wei) – a doe-eyed single mother, and joined the community as their paper...

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