Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,020 Articles Published

Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Heat, The Guns read more 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 bad ones, and of course, Tom Cruise!

Review: This is It

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A candid look behind the scenes at what would have been a series of comeback concerts for Michael Jackson, staged at London’s O2 arena, and produced by famed choreographer/ filmmaker Kenny Ortega. REVIEW: Like many, I was stunned to...

Review: Amelia

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: The life of pioneering female pilot Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank), from her first flight across the Atlantic, to her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific years later. REVIEW: Mira Nair’s AMELIA would seem to be the type of film that...

Review: The Stepfather

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: A teenaged rebel (Penn Badgley) returns home from a year in military school to discover that his recently divorced mother (Sela Ward) is engaged to a new man, David (Dylan Walsh), who seems too good to be true. What...

Review: Law Abiding Citizen

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Ten years after his wife and daughter are killed during a home invasion, a seemingly mild mannered inventor, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) brutally kills the two men involved in the crime. He’s quickly arrested for the crime, but this...

Review: Invention of Lying

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In a world where everyone can only tell the truth, a struggling screenwriter (Ricky Gervais) finds fame and fortune after telling the world’s first lie. REVIEW: Ricky Gervais is a comedic genius. I think he’s the truly great comedic...

Review: Zombieland

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In a world overrun by zombies, a band of survivors; consisting of a bad-ass zombie-killing survivalist (Woody Harrelson), his neurotic sidekick (Jesse Eisenberg), and two con-artist sisters (Emma Stone, & Abigail Breslin)- attempt to navigate their way to an...

TIFF: The wrap-up!

Posted 17 years ago

On September 20th, the 34th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival drew to a close. The fest was particularly memorable for me, as I was lucky enough to attend the festival for JoBlo.com. Overall, I had an incredible time,...

Review: Capitalism: A Love Story (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: In Michael Moore’s latest documentary, he takes on corporate culture, and the way it’s seeped into the fabric of American life, leading to the current financial crisis. Review: I have some issues with Michael Moore. For the most part,...

Review: Ondine (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: An Irish fisherman named Syraceuse (Colin Farrell), rescues a beautiful woman he finds drifting in the sea. The woman, who calls herself Ondine (Alicja Bachleda), appears to be suffering from amnesia, and the two soon fall deeply in love....

Review: Pandorum

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Two crewmen (Dennis Quaid, & Ben Foster) serving aboard a spaceship designed to colonize a far-away planet, awaken from hyper-sleep to find the ship seemingly abandoned. To their horror, they soon discover that they are not alone, and that...

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