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: It’s Kind of a Funny Story

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A suicidal teen (Keir Gilchrist) checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward for a 5-day evaluation. While there; he bonds with his fellow patients, including another suicidal teen (Emma Roberts) and a clinically depressed man (Zach Galifianakis) who takes...

Review: Nowhere Boy

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The story of John Lennon’s formative years. As a teenager, Lennon (Aaron Johnson), found himself torn between his neglectful mother (Anne-Marie Duff), and his legal guardian, his Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas). Meanwhile, his antagonistic friendship with a sensitive...

Movie Reviews

Review: Stone

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A corrections officer (Robert De Niro) nearing retirement is assigned to review the case of a convicted arsonist, Stone (Edward Norton), whose wife (Milla Jovovich) is willing to go to any lengths to get him a release. REVIEW: STONE...

Review: Case 39

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A social worker (Renee Zellweger) adopts an abused young girl (Jodelle Ferland) who may in fact be a demon in disguise. Oops. REVIEW: CASE 39 is the latest in a long line of `demon child` films that have been...

INTERVIEW: Ryan Reynolds talks Buried, Green Lantern and more!

Posted 16 years ago

In the year or so, few actors careers have been as hot as that of Ryan Reynolds. He’s been kicking around for years in pretty much every genre, from comedy (VAN WILDER), to action (SMOKING ACES, BLADE: TRINITY), to horror...

Interview: Ryan Reynolds talks Buried, Green Lantern and more!

Posted 16 years ago

The 2010 Toronto Film Festival Wrap-Up!!!

Posted 16 years ago

And so, another edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is in the books. This was my second time attending TIFF, and it was another great year. Being a returnee, I was less overwhelmed by the madcap insanity of the...

Review: Machete Maidens Unleashed (Tiff)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A fast-moving documentary exploring the world of Filipino exploitation cinema, which spawned such “classics” as THE BIG BIRD HOUSE, WHITE MAMA BLACK MAMA, T N’T JACKSON, SAVAGE, and FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY. REVIEW: MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED is director Mark...

Review: Tabloid (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A documentary exploring the sensational case of former Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney, who was accused of kidnapping a former boyfriend of hers who was in England on a Mormon retreat. The case became the biggest tabloid story of the...

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