Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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: Bad Lieutenant (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Terence McDonagh (Nicholas Cage) is a coke/ heroine snorting, crack smoking, pill popping police detective with a bad back, a call girl girlfriend (Eva Mendes), and a gambling addiction working in post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. His myriad of...

Review: The Informant (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Matt Damon stars as Mark Whitacre- a high powered executive working at a corn extract corporation, who blows the whistle on a price fixing scheme involving his colleagues, with the help of an FBI agent (Scott Bakula). However, Whitacre...

TIFF: The Road

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bestseller, Viggo Mortensen plays a father desperately trying to protect his young son (Kodi-Smit McPhee) in a post-apocalyptic future, where the barren landscape is roamed by gangs of predatory cannibals. His only line...

Review: The Boys Are Back (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Clive Owen stars as Joe Warr, a succesful sports writer, living the good life in Australia. Tragedy strikes he wife is suddenly stricken with cancer, and dies- leaving him a single parent to his precocious young son. Meanwhile, his...

Review: The Road (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

TIFF: Daybreakers

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In a world where 95% of the population are vampires and slowly starving to death due to lack of human blood, a vamp blood chemist, Edward (Ethan Hawke) tries to find a way to save both species from existence....

Review: Invention of Lying (TIFF)

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...

TIFF: Jennifer’s Body

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: High school sexpot Jennifer (Megan Fox), is turned into a ravenous, bloodthirsty monster after an encounter with a devil worshiping indie rock band (fronted by THE O.C’s Adam Brody). Her best friend, Needy (Amanda Seyfried) is the only person...

Review: Jennifer’s Body (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

Review: Up in the Air (TIFF)

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: George Clooney is Ryan Bingham, a high living corporate axe-man, who makes his living flying from city to city firing people for bosses who don`t have the stomach to do it themselves. Bingham cherishes his life on the road,...

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