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!

INTERVIEW: Killer Inside Me director Michael Winterbottom

Posted 17 years ago

Of all the films I caught at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, none was more controversial than THE KILLER INSIDE ME. Based on the classic piece of fifties pulp fiction by Jim Thompson- whose previous film adaptations include THE GRIFTERS...

Review: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Teenaged Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman), discovers he’s the demi-God spawn of Poseidon (Kevin McKidd), God of the Sea. After Zeus’(Sean Bean) lightening bolt is stolen, Percy is suspected, and he must find the bolt in fifteen days to avoid...

Review: Saint John Of Las Vegas

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A down and out gambler turned insurance claims investigator (Steve Buscemi) is sent to Las Vegas by his boss (Peter Dinklage) to investigate a claim. Along the way, he encounters several eccentric characters, while also dealing with his laconic...

Review: Crazy Heart

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a fifty-seven year old, alcoholic country singer- who was once a star, but now ekes out a meager living playing gigs in bars and bowling alleys. At one such gig, he meets Jean (Maggie...

Review: HOWL (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: James Franco plays Allen Ginsberg, in this docudrama centering on the publication of his famous poem HOWL, and the obscenity trial his publishers faced afterwards. REVIEW: HOWL is a film that will definitely bewilder many audience members when it...

Review: From Paris With Love

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A young American embassy analyst (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), living in Paris, is teamed up with a loose canon spy (John Travolta), in order to foil a terrorist plot. REVIEW: FROM PARIS WITH LOVE is the latest Luc Besson/Europa Corp...

Sundance: Best of the Fest

Posted 17 years ago

And so, with my just posted reviews of HOWL, and SKATELAND, my Sundance 2010 coverage comes to an end. This was a very special film festival for me, as it was my first year attending Sundance, which has been a...

Review: Skateland (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In a small town in the early eighties, the closing of the local roller-disco causes the nineteen-year-old rink manager, and his friends, to re-examine their lives. REVIEW: SKATELAND is a fairly sweet coming of age drama/ eighties nostalgia piece,...

Review: Catfish (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Filmmakers Henry Joost, and Ariel Schulman document an internet romance between Ariel`s brother Nev, and a young woman he meets online. REVIEW: CATFISH is a film I`ve been dreading writing a review for. It`s hard enough writing up a...

Review: Animal Kingdom (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Josh (James Frecheville) is sent to live with his grandmother (Jacki Weaver), and his four criminal uncles; Baz (Joel Edgerton), Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), Darren (Luke Ford), and Pope (Ben Mendelsohn)....

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