Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,017 Articles Published

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: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Will Rodman (James Franco), a brilliant young scientist, invents a formula that could cure Alzheimer’s, but after a botched experiment on a Chimpanzee, his project is shut down, but not before discovering that his ape subject had a son...

Review: Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee & The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When a series of strange, supernatural deaths start occurring close to the inauguration of Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau), she sends for the imprisoned Detective Dee (Andy Lau)- a former official who was sent into exile for eight years...

Review: Chris Sivertson’s Brawler, starring Nathan Grubbs (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

Note: This review is based on an unfinished rough cut of the film. PLOT: Two brothers (Nathan Grubbs & Marc Senter), both of whom are champs in the New Orleans bare-fist fighting underworld; settle a family score in the ring....

Review: Adam Wingard’s What Fun We Were Having, starring A.J Bowen (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: An anthology of short films about date rape. In the first segment, a young man who’s recently outed himself, takes advantage of the neighborhood stud. In the second, a young woman who wakes up every morning with fresh bruises...

Review: Jack Perez’s Some Guy Who Kills People, starring Kevin Corrigan (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Ken (Kevin Corrigan) is just out of the state mental hospital, and has to resort to living with his loony mother (Karen Black), and working a minimum wage job at the local ice-cream shop. If that isn’t bad enough,...

Review: Crazy Stupid Love

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Cal (Steve Carell) is a mild-mannered suburbanite whose world is turned upside-down when his wife of twenty-four years, Emily (Julianne Moore) abruptly announces that she’s having an affair, and asks for a divorce. Having never been with any women...

Review: Attack the Block (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A teen gang living on a council estate in South London, defend their home during an alien invasion. REVIEW: Despite the universally glowing reviews out of SXSW, I wasn’t 100% convinced that I was going to like ATTACK THE...

Review: Attack the Block

Posted 15 years ago

Review: Cowboys & Aliens

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A man (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the desert with no memory, a mysterious gaping wound, and a strange metal bracelet attached to his wrist. He makes his way to a small town in Arizona, which is lorded over...

Review: Scott Leberecht’s Midnight Son, starring Zak Kilberg (Fantasia 2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Jacob (Zak Kilberg) is a twenty-four year old security guard who, due to a skin condition that’s left him super-sensitive to sunlight, is forced to work the graveyard shift, and spend his days holed up in his basement apartment...

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