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!

Underwater (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: The survivors of a devastating explosion at an underwater lab eleven thousand meters deep, whose only shot at survival means a walk along the ocean floor with insufficient oxygen, find themselves face-to-face with a terrifying creature from the depths...

Review: Underwater

Posted 7 years ago

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Showdown in Little Tokyo

Posted 7 years ago

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 either...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Running Scared (1986)

Posted 7 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...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Kuffs

Posted 7 years ago

The Best Movies of 2020! The Gentlemen, Tenet and More!

Posted 7 years ago

I think we can all agree that 2020 has been a special year. Yeah, special. That's the ticket! Given all that happened, it was inevitable that the year in movies would suffer somewhat, as all of the most anticipated movies...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Midnight Run

Posted 7 years ago

Top 10 Films of 2019 (Bumbray)

Posted 7 years ago

Chris A few months ago, I wrote on Twitter that I felt 2019 has been the best year for American cinema since 1999, and while a lot of people took me to task for ignoring 2007 (a great year to...

Review: The Two Popes

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: On the eve of his retirement, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) is called to the Vatican for an emergency meeting with Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins), formerly one of his biggest opponents in the church. REVIEW: Fernando Meirelles’s...

Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Chris Bumbray’s take)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: One year after almost crushing the Rebellion once and for all, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) finds an unlikely ally in the resurrected Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) – who demands Ren bring him Rey (Daisy Ridley), who’s off training as...

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