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: Fright Night

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Things seem to be looking up for Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin). After years of being bullied, he’s finally become one of the “cool kids”, and landed a smoking hot girlfriend, Amy (Imogen Poots). However, his former best friend, Ed...

Review: One Day

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Dexter (Jim Sturgess) & Emma (Anne Hathaway) meet on the evening of their college graduation. After spending a chaste night together, the film follows them each July 15th over the course of twenty years. Throughout that time, we see...

Review: Senna

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The life of Ayrton Senna; a Brazilian-born three-time F1 World Champion. The film follows Senna as he emerges from semi-pro Kart-racing, through his early races, his bitter rivalry with McLaren teammate Alain Prost, his status as a national hero...

Review: 30 Minutes Or Less

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Dwayne (Danny McBride) is a thirtysomething slacker, itching to get his hands on inheritance money from his wealthy father (Fred Ward). He hires a hitman, Chongo (Michael Pena) to do away with his Dad, but doesn’t have the $100,000...

Review: The Help

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a young Mississippi society gal, returns home after completing her degree, she notices, for the first time in her life, the racism and civil inequality that dominate her circa-1960’s Jackson, Mississippi hometown. She decides...

FANTASIA COVERAGE 2011: The Wrap-Up!

Posted 15 years ago

And so, another edition of Montreal’s FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL (this being the 15th edition) is in the books, and once again I had the pleasure of covering the festival for Arrow in the Head. So far I’ve reviewed nineteen films...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Should Andy Serkis be nominated for an Oscar?

Posted 15 years ago

Chris RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES hit theaters this weekend with a stronger-than-expected $54 Million opening, thanks in no small part to the stellar word of mouth the film is already raking up. Currently, the Cinema Score is...

Review: John Landis Burke & Hare, starring Simon Pegg (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Nineteen century con-men, Burke (Simon Pegg) and Hare (Andy Serkis) stumble upon a profitable new endeavor, grave robbing and murder- which allows them to sell cadavers for medical dissection to the deep-pocketed Dr. Knox (Tom Wilkinson). REVIEW: BURKE &...

Review: Kim Min-Suk’s Haunters, starring Gang Dong-won (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Cho-in (Dong-wong Kang), a physically weak man, with an artificial leg-was born with the ability to control minds. Having been abused by his parents as a child, to the point that he forced his father to snap his own...

Review: The Change-Up

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Dave (Jason Bateman) is a devoted family-man/lawyer, with three kids, and an ignored wife (Leslie Mann). Mitch is an unemployed wannabe-actor, with a never-ending string of sexual conquests, no commitments, but- at the same time, no prospects. Life-long best...

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