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!

TIFF 2009 Preview!!

Posted 17 years ago

On September 10th, the Toronto International Film Festival, arguably the most prestigious North American film fest, kicks off its 34th edition, with an absolutely incredible slate of films. This year, I’ve been lucky enough to obtain full press accreditation through...

Review: All About Steve

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Mary Horowitz (Sandra Bullock), a lonely, eccentric cross-word puzzle creator, is set up on a blind date with a TV news cameraman, named Steve (Bradley Cooper). It’s love at first sight for Mary, but when he tries to blow...

Review: Gamer

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In the distant future, video games have advanced to the point where players begin controlling actual people. The newest game to feature this technology is called “Slayers”, where players control death row inmates, who are forced to battle each...

Review: In the Loop

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In the days leading up to a U.S led war in the Middle East, a none-too-bright UK Minister, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander), finds himself in hot water with the Prime Minister’s top spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) when...

Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Henry (Eric Bana) has a unique problem. A genetic abnormality has left him with the ability to time travel- although he has no control over where and when he travels whenever a random spell hits him. This has left...

Review: The Goods

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Don Ready (Jeremy Piven) is a legendary used-car salesmen, who, along with his sales team (Ving Rhames, Kathryn Hahn, & David Koechner) is hired by a fledgling auto-dealership owner (James Brolin), to liquidate all the cars on his lot...

Review: District 9

Posted 17 years ago

NOTE: There is a national MIDNIGHT SCREENING on Thursday night for DISTRICT 9. Check your local listings! PLOT:: An extra-terrestrial race lands in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is confined to a ghetto called District 9. Twenty years after the landing,...

Review: Julie & Julia

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: A young woman, Julie (Amy Adams), struggling to find her purpose in life is inspired by the life, and work of Julia Child (Meryl Streep) – whose own struggle to be taken seriously as an American chef in France,...

Review: A Perfect Getaway

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Newlyweds, Cliff & Cydney (Steve Zahn & Milla Jovovich) decide to spend their honeymoon back-packing through a remote area of Hawaii. Along the way, they meet two other couples, Nick & Gina (Timothy Olyphant, and Kiele Sanchez)- a friendly,...

INT: Troll 2 folks

Posted 17 years ago

(1) One of the most buzzed about films to play the Fantasia Film Fest this year, was Michael Stephenson’s BEST WORST MOVIE- his doc about TROLL 2, a film he starred in as a youngster, that is widely considered one...

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