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: Saving Grace (Fantasia)

Posted 16 years ago

Plot: Grace (Mandy Bo) is a young heroin-addicted nurse, who, after an overdose- is snatched from intensive care by the hospital janitor (Jason Barbeck). He imprisons her in an abandoned factory, all the while claiming that the world outside has...

Review: Salt

Posted 16 years ago

Plot: A Russian defector accuses CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) of being a Russian Spy. He claims she’s a deep cover operative working a rogue Russian spy unit, dedicated to the eventual destruction of the United States. Review: SALT...

Review: The Life & Death of a Porno Gang (Fantasia)

Posted 16 years ago

Plot: In the wake of the war in Kosovo, a young Serbian filmmaker named Marko, wanders the countryside of his homeland with a band of misfits, staging live, pornographic performances. Their performances catch the eye of an ex-war correspondent, turned...

Review: At World’s End (Fantasia)

Posted 16 years ago

Plot: When a British documentarian is gunned down in the jungles of Indonesia by a Danish citizen, a nerdy psychiatrist- Adrien(Nikolaj Lie Kaas) working for the Danish Justice department is sent, along with his beautiful secretary- Beate (Birgitte Hjort Sorensen),...

Review: Inception

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A corporate spy (Leonardo DiCaprio), who specializes in the art of “extraction”- where he can enter a persons dreams and steal secrets from their subconscious, is hired by a mysterious business mogul (Ken Watanabe) to carry out the near...

Review: Ip Man 2 (Fantasia)

Posted 16 years ago

Plot: After fleeing the Japanese occupation of China during the Second World War, Wing Chun Grandmaster Ip Man (Donnie Yen) finds himself penniless in Hong Kong, with a pregnant wife, and a young son to support. He decides to open...

Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Posted 16 years ago

[Ed. note: This film was reviewed as part of the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival] PLOT: A centuries-old sorcerer, Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage), finds an unlikely apprentice in the guise of New Yorker Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel). Despite being the last...

Review: I Spit On Your Grave 2010 (Fantasia)

Posted 16 years ago

Plot: Jennifer (Sarah Butler) is a young novelist looking to spend a few months secluded at a remote cabin deep in the south in order to work on her next novel. A group of local bullies, led by a...

Review: Rubber (Fantasia)

Posted 16 years ago

Plot: A telekinetic rubber tire goes on a killing spree in a small town deep in the California desert. Review: Well, I’ll say this: RUBBER is without a doubt, the best killer tire movie you’ll ever see. Sarcasm aside, RUBBER...