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!

Sundance 2012 Wrap-up!

Posted 15 years ago

And so, another edition of the Sundance Film Festival is in the books. It’s amazing to me how quickly these fests tend to come up, but man, do they ever disappear just as quickly. For me, it was another terrific...

Review: W.E.

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The story of King Edward VIII’s romance with American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborourgh)- contrasted with the modern-day woes of an unhappily married Sotheby’s buyer, Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) who has a lifelong fascination with the pair. REVIEW: After...

Review: The Woman In Black

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In early twentieth-century Britain, a young lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) travels to a remote village to clear-out the estate of a couple that died under mysterious circumstances. He ignores the warnings of the townsfolk to discover that the estate carries...

Review: Chronicle

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Three high school seniors stumble upon a strange cavern which gives them telekinetic abilities. At first, the three use their new powers for fun and mischief, but as their abilities start to grow, so does the temptation to give...

Review: Arbitrage (Sundance 2012)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A hedge-fund tycoon (Richard Gere) who’s embroiled in some dirty dealings, finds his whole world spinning out of control after a deadly accident forces him to turn to an unlikely friend for help. REVIEW: ARBITRAGE is two movies in...

Review: Wrong (Sundance 2012)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Dolph Springer (Jack Plotnick) – a mild-mannered ex-travel agent, who still likes going to work for a few minutes every now and then at his office despite having been fired, wakes up one morning to discover that his dog...

Review: Wrong (Sundance 2012)

Posted 15 years ago

Review: Excision (Sundance 2012)

Posted 15 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: Shadow Dancer (Sundance 2012)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In 1990’s Belfast, an active member of the IRA, Colette (Andrea Riseborough) is turned into an informer by a British agent (Clive Owen) who threatens to take her away from her son. REVIEW: Director James Marsh is mostly known...

Review: Robot & Frank (Sundance 2012)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Frank (Frank Langella) is a retired cat burglar, who lives alone and is semi-estranged from his children. When he starts to show the early symptoms of Alzheimer’s, his son buys him a robot companion (voiced by Peter Saarsgard). Initially...

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