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!

Previewing the 2011 Toronto Film Fest!

Posted 15 years ago

It’s once again time for the Toronto International Film Festival, and again, I’m going to be covering it for JoBlo.com. One of the true highlights of my year, this is my third time covering TIFF, and it seems like the...

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Set Visit: Talking with Hugh Jackman on the set of Real Steel!

Posted 15 years ago

READ PART 1 OF OUR SET VISIT HERE Yesterday, I spoke a bit about the fact that REAL STEEL is, in fact, my first ever set visit. Towards the end of the visit, I had a thrill when I got...

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Set Visit: Boxing robots, Hugh Jackman and fish tacos on the set of Real Steel!

Posted 15 years ago

Working at JoBlo.com has been an adventure from day one, and over the last few years I’ve had the opportunity to visit film festivals like TIFF, Sundance, and Fantasia. Yet, in the summer of 2010, there was still one thing...

Review: Bunraku

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In a world where firearms have been outlawed, and hand-to-hand combat and swordplay have made a comeback, two drifters; a cowboy (Josh Hartnett), and a sword-less samurai (Gackt) wander into a town ruled by warlord Nicola (Ron Perlman) and...

Review: The Debt

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In 1965, three Mossad agents (Sam Worthington, Marton Czokas, & Jessica Chastain) abduct a Nazi War Criminal- with the intention of bringing him back to Israel for trial. In an attempted escape, he’s killed, and the three are hailed...

Review: Colombiana

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: After witnessing the murder of her parents at the hands of vicious drug lord- Don Luis, Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) is trained by her uncle (Cliff Curtis) to become one of the world’s top assassins, and prepare for the day...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Be a little more selective with your roles, Jason Statham!

Posted 15 years ago

Chris The other night, I was watching Jason Statham’s latest movie, BLITZ on Blu-ray. Unlike his other recent films, BLITZ went straight to DVD, and watching the film it wasn’t all that hard to see why. While not a bad...

Review: Our Idiot Brother

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Ned (Paul Rudd) is an eternally sunny hippie, with no room in his life for anything other than constant optimism. His belief in people`s essential goodness lands him in stir when he sells some weed to a cop who...

Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A young girl (Bailee Madison) is sent to live with her estranged father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in a creepy old mansion infested with ancient, evil gremlins. REVIEW: DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK is a...

Review: Conan The Barbarian

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Conan (Jason Momoa) avenges his father’s death at the hands of a mad warlord (Stephen Lang), on a quest to become a God. REVIEW: CONAN THE BARBARIAN begins with a shot that lets you know exactly what kind of...

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