Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,010 Articles Published

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: Bad Education

Posted 6 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2019 coverage. PLOT: A high school superintendent (Hugh Jackman) and his underlings use their unlimited access to school funds to finance their high-flying lifestyles, but when one of them makes a mistake, the...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Code of Silence

Posted 6 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

Review: Robert the Bruce

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Following the death of William Wallace and sporting a price on his head courtesy of the King of England, an injured Robert the Bruce (Angus Macfadyen) takes shelter at the farm of a widow and her children. REVIEW: First...

Review: Extraction

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A black-ops mercenary (Chris Hemsworth) is hired to rescue the teenaged son of a Mumbai drug lord from his rivals in Bangladesh. REVIEW: It’s hard to deny that of all the directors to work with Marvel the Russo Brothers...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Cable Guy

Posted 6 years ago

Ex. We talk to Michael Shannon about The Quarry, Jeff Nichols & Zack Snyder

Posted 6 years ago

Last week, I had the pleasure to chat (over the phone) with the great Michael Shannon, about his new film, THE QUARRY, which hit VOD a few days ago and is available now. The story of a fugitive (Shea Whigham)...

Review: The Quarry

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A mysterious fugitive (Shea Whigham) kills a preacher in a fit of rage. He winds up posing as the man, who’d recently been assigned to be a Pastor at a remote church in a Texas border town. While there,...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Dark City

Posted 6 years ago

Review: We Summon the Darkness

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Three girls (Alexandra Daddario, Maddie Hasson & Amy Forsyth) meet up with three guys (Logan Miller, Austin Swift & Keean Johnson) at a heavy metal concert and invite them back to their place to party – only for the...