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: Kevin Smith’s Red State (2011) (Sundance2011)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Three teens (Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano, Nicolas Braun) looking for sex, are lured to a rendezvous with a mysterious woman (Melissa Leo). The boys are drugged, and brought to the compound of Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks), who runs...

Review: The Way Back

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Prisoners in a Siberian Gulag circa-1939, escape their captors and attempt to walk to India, in order to evade their communist jailers. REVIEW: THE WAY BACK is the latest film from director Peter Weir, and if that isn’t cause...

Review: Somewhere

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is an American film star promoting his latest film, while holed up at the Chateau Marmont in L.A. His life is a meaningless series of interviews, casual sex, and boozing. While bored, Marco seems content,...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Learn to take a joke!

Posted 16 years ago

Chris The Hollywood Foreign Press had it coming. Just take a look at the Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy category. The fact that the presenters could read a list that including Johnny Depp for THE TOURIST and ALICE IN WONDERLAND,...

A preview of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival!

Posted 16 years ago

January 20th will mark the beginning of yet another edition of the Sundance Film Festival, and once again, lucky bastard that I am, I’ll have the pleasure to cover the festival for JoBlo.com. Expect many reviews to show up here...

Review: The Dilemma

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are life-long best friends, and business partners. When Ronny discovers Nick’s wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) is cheating on him, he must decide whether to tell his friend about the affair, or keep...

Review: The Green Hornet

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: After his father dies, Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), heir to a newspaper empire, takes it upon himself to rid L.A of crime, with the help of his father`s brilliant, kung-fu fighting mechanic, Kato (Jay Chou). REVIEW: THE GREEN HORNET...

Review: Barney’s Version

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a schlocky TV producer living out his twilight years, looks back at his life; examining the relationships he had with his three wives (Rachelle Lefevre, Minnie Driver, Rosamund Pike), aged father (Dustin Hoffman), and drug-addled...

Review: Rabbit Hole

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: After losing their child in a freak accident, middle-class couple Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) struggle to put their lives back together, and save their marriage. REVIEW: For better or worse, RABBIT HOLE is sure to be...

Review: Season of the Witch

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Having abandoned the Crusades, two fourteenth century knights (Nicolas Cage & Ron Perlman) are forced to transport a young woman (Claire Foy) accused of being a witch and responsible for the Black Plague, to a monastery where she’ll be...

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