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: Solomon Kane (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: James Purefoy is Solomon Kane, a soldier of fortune, whose wicked ways earn him a first class ticket to hell. Being a skilled warrior, he manages to escape Satan’s reaper, and flees to England- where he seeks solace in...

TIFF: REC 2

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: This sequel takes place thirteen minutes after the events of the original [REC]. The action returns to the quarantined apartment building in Spain, where a strange illness has tuned the former residents into flesh eating zombies. The SWAT team...

Review: Ong Bak 2 (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Tony Jaa is Tiang, a young warrior who’s taken in by a gang of bandits when his family is slaughtered by a group of traitors within the monarchy of Thai King Naresuan. Once he reaches adulthood, he goes for...

Review: REC 2 (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

Review: Whip It (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Ellen Page is Bliss, a teenage beauty queen, who rebels against her pageant loving mother (Marcia Gay Harden), to take up competitive roller derby. She joins a roller crew run by the hard living Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore), and...

Review: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) is an immortal soothsayer, who travels through London with his traveling carnival, featuring his diminutive assistant Percy (Verne Troyer), his beautiful, mortal daughter- Valentina (Lily Cole), and her would-be suitor, Anton (Andrew Garfield). One night,...

Review: Micmacs (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A mild-mannered video-store clerk, Bazil (Dany Boon), takes a stay bullet to the head, which cannot be removed, as he would become a vegetable. Instead, the doctors are forced to leave it in, warning Bazil that he could drop...

Review: Solitary Man (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: After receiving some frightening health news, a car magnate (Michael Douglas), leaves his wife (Susan Sarandon), and spends the next few years hopping from one bed to another, leaving a series of jilted flings in his wake. He also...

Review: Leaves of Grass (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Bill Kincaid (Edward Norton), an Ivy League professor, is lured back to his Oklahoma roots by his identical twin brother, Brady (Norton, sporting a mullet and some stubble) a small time pot dealer, in trouble with a local drug...

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Review: A Serious Man (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a mild mannered physics professor, approaching tenure at a quiet Midwestern University living with his family in a close knit Jewish suburb. His life quickly begins to fall a part when his wife announces...

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