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: Salvation Boulevard (Sundance)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Dan Day (Pierce Brosnan) is a charismatic pastor, and the head of a massive born-again Christian movement. Day’s got his hands in all sorts of schemes, including a major land deal for a controlled Christian community. The only fly...

Review: Take Shelter (2011) (Sundance 2011)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Curtis (Michael Shannon) is a blue-collar worker, doing his best to support his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), and their young, deaf daughter. All seems to be going well, until Curtis starts having strange, apocalyptic dreams about an impending storm....

Review: Take Shelter (Sundance)

Posted 16 years ago

Review: The Guard (Sundance)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Sergeant Gerry O’Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a small-town Irish cop, that, in the words of FBI Agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) “is either really motherf***ing dumb, or really motherf***ing smart”. He’s partnered with Everett after stumbling upon a murder...

Review: Hobo with a Shotgun (2011), starring Rutger Hauer. (Sundance 2011)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A hobo (Rutger Hauer) arrives in a town plagued with crime; which is ruled over by a crime lord named Drake (Brian Downey), and his two psychotic sons. Tired of the rampant crime, the titular hobo buys himself a...

Review: Tyrannosaur (Sundance)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Joseph (Peter Mullan) is one mean son of a bitch, and he knows it. All of his life, he’s been prone to extremely violent temper tantrums, and the ensuing destructive episodes have left him nearly friendless, and with a...

Review: The Music Never Stopped (Sundance)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Henry Sawyer (J.K Simmons) is a middle-aged engineer, nearing retirement, and living a quiet life with his patient and loving wife, Helen (Cara Seymour). Out of the blue, their long-estranged son Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci) comes back into their...

Review: I Melt With You (2011), starring Thomas Jane. (Sundance 2011)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Four friends (Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, Christian McKay) suffering through their own various midlife crises, unite for a week-long binge of boozing, and rampant drug abuse. REVIEW: I MELT WITH YOU is yet another Sundance entry that’s...

Review: Son of No One (Sundance)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: As a boy, Jonathan was forced to kill two junkies in self-defense. His best friend, Vinny, helped him dispose of the bodies, but they weren’t clever enough, and the plot was discovered by Detective Stanford (Al Pacino), who was...