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: The Town (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The leader (Ben Affleck) of a crew of bank robbers falls in love with the key witness (Rebecca Hall) from his last job. This puts him at odds with his hot-headed partner (Jeremy Renner), and also in the cross-hairs...

Review: John Carpenter’s The Ward (Tiff)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Amber Heard) is institutionalized in a mental hospital haunted by the ghost of a former patient. Soon, her and her fellow inmates are being stalked and picked off one by one by this evil force, which...

Review: Never Let Me Go (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: In an alternate reality, most major diseases have been cured, and life expectancy greatly extended, thanks to the use of “donors” . These are young adults who are raised from infancy with the expectation that one day they’d make...

Review: Brad Anderson’s Vanishing on 7th Street (Tiff)

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: Let Me In (2010) (Tiff)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A lonely young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is befriended by an eternally twelve-year old vampire (Chloe Moretz), who travels with a mysterious adult companion (Richard Jenkins). REVIEW: LET ME IN is a film I have conflicting opinions about. On the...

Review: Let Me In (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

Review: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) (Tiff)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The mind of a driven New York ballerina (Natalie Portman) begins to unravel after she gets cast in a revival of SWAN LAKE by a tyrannical director (Vincent Cassel). REVIEW: Watching BLACK SWAN was an excruciating experience for me,...

Review: Black Swan (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

Review: I’m Still Here (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A documentary exploring the unravelling of actor Joaquin Phoenix’s life after he decides to become a rapper. REVIEW: I’m not sure what to make of I’M STILL HERE. Is it a documentary, or is it a hoax? I’m inclined...

A preview of the 2010 Toronto Film Festival!

Posted 16 years ago

Today the 35th Toronto International Film Festival will be kicking into high gear, offering 300 of the most buzzed about, heavily anticipated films from around the world. Once again, I’ll be representing JoBlo.com, and of the incredible schedule, there are...

Load more articles