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: 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: Henry’s Crime (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Henry (Keanu Reeves) is unwittingly pressed into becoming the getaway driver for a gang of bank robbers. He ends up serving three years in prison, under fatherly protection of lifer Max (James Caan). Upon his release, he discovers that...

Review: Easy A (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A high-school senior (Emma Stone) with a flawless reputation, unwittingly becomes knows as the school slut once a rumor spins out of control. She uses this new reputation to her advantage after a whole slew of guys, eager to...

Review: Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) returns from service in The Great War to discover that the Japanese occupation of China is growing. Wanting to fight these invaders, and unite his country, Chen Zhen goes underground, and adopts a masked persona-...

Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A young Wall Street trader (Shia LaBeouf) looking to avenge his mentor’s (Frank Langella) ruin by a corporate raider (Josh Brolin) teams up with the newly-reformed Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who also happens to be his girlfriend’s (Carey Mulligan)...

Review: Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A civilian contractor (Ryan Reynolds) working in Iraq, is abducted by insurgents, and buried alive in a coffin, with only a lighter, a Swiss Army knife, and a cell phone to keep him company. REVIEW: Rodrigo Cortés’ BURIED was...

Review: Trust (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The idyllic suburban existence of Will (Clive Owen), and Lynn (Catherine Keener) Cameron is shattered when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Annie (Liana Liberato) is raped by an online sexual predator. REVIEW: TRUST is a film that should have been powerful....

Review: Vanishing on 7th Street

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A city wide blackout results in almost the entire population of New York City disappearing in seconds. Only a handful of survivors are left, including a reporter (Hayden Christensen), a physiotherapist (Thandie Newton) looking for her son, and a...

Review: Passion Play (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A junkie trumpet player (Mickey Rourke), on the lam from a mobster (Bill Murray), falls for a beautiful winged woman (Megan Fox) appearing in a circus sideshow. REVIEW: There a bad movies and then there are BAD movies. PASSION...

Review: James Wan’s Insidious (2010). (Tiff)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: When a young couple, Josh (Patrick Wilson), and Renai (Rose Byrne) move their growing family into a new home, they become plagued by a supernatural entity that has designs on their newly comatose son. REVIEW: In many ways INSIDIOUS...

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