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: Sea Fever

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: The crew of an Irish trawler discovers that a mysterious creature has attached itself to their ship. REVIEW: Given the current state of the world, it’s hard to watch a film like SEA FEVER, in which the word “quarantine”...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Replacement Killers

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: Coffee & Kareem

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A clumsy cop (Ed Helms) agrees to pick his girlfriend’s (Taraji P. Henson) trouble-making son (Terrence Little Gardenhigh) from school one afternoon, only for the kid to witness a gangland slaying involving dirty cops, putting the mismatched pair on...

Review: The Informer

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: An FBI informant (Joel Kinnaman) embedded in the Polish mob is forced by his handlers to allow himself to be sent to prison to build a drug-running case against an elusive criminal kingpin known as “The General”. Meanwhile, on...

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The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Shadow starring Alec Baldwin!

Posted 6 years ago

Review: Resistance

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg), the famous French mime who was a member of the Resistance during the Second World War. REVIEW: I must admit that my knowledge of Marcel Marceau is limited. I know that’s...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: 8MM

Posted 6 years ago

Top 10 Epic Movie Binges to Watch in Quarantine

Posted 6 years ago

Chris I know, I know. Things are crazy out there. Most of us are supposed to be self-isolating these days and, what makes things worse, is that there's seemingly no end in sight. We really don't know what's coming from...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Top Secret!

Posted 6 years ago

Review: Vivarium

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Eager to purchase a house, a young couple (Imogen Poots & Jesse Eisenberg) visit a mysterious housing development called “Yonder”, only to find that they’re unable to leave their new home. Complicating things, the two are also forced to...

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