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: 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)....

Review: Adam Green’s Frozen! (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Three skiers (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, and Kevin Zegers) find themselves stranded on a chair-lift. With the resort not due to re-open for five days, the three skiers must find a way off the ski lift, lest they freeze...

Review: Frozen (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

Review: Welcome to the Rileys (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: While on a business trip to New Orleans, a man (James Gandolfini) who recently lost his daughter in a car accident, develops a fatherly relationship with a teenage hooker (Kristen Stewart). Wanting to help this young woman, who reminds...

Review: Sympathy for Delicious (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A newly paralyzed DJ (Christopher Thorton), acquires the ability to heal people, with one caveat- he can’t heal himself. While a skid row priest (Mark Ruffalo) tries to encourage him to use his powers for good, the lure of...

Review: Buried (Sundance)

Posted 17 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: HIGH School (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: When their high school principal (Michael Chiklis) hatches a plan to have the whole high school tested for drugs, two stoners (Matt Bush & Sean Marquette) concoct a plan of their own. They steal some high-powered marijuana from a...

Review: Jack Goes Boating (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a limo driver working in New York. An unconventional man to say the least, the dread-locked Jack has a hard time making any sort of romantic connection, and his only social interactions come from...

Review: Holy Rollers (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A young Hasidic Jew (Jesse Eisenberg) becomes a drug courier for a cartel connected to Israel. REVIEW: HOLY ROLLERS is like A SERIOUS MAN meets GO. Based on a true story, the film is set in the late nineties,...

Review: Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil (Sundance)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Two hillbillies (Alan Tudyk & Tyler Labine) are mistaken for mass-murderers by a group of randy college kids. REVIEW: TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL was a nice change of pace from some of the heavier films I’ve seen at...

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