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: Daniel Isn’t Real

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Luke, a young boy with a troubled home life, invents an imaginary friend named Daniel, but when he almost poisons his mother, Daniel is sent back to his imaginary world to await the day he’ll once again be needed....

Daniel Isn’t Real (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Gattaca

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...

Review: The Irishman

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An Irish truck driver, Frank Sheehan (Robert De Niro), is taken under the wing of mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci). Through this connection, he’s put to work as Jimmy Hoffa’s (Al Pacino) right-hand man, eventually rising to power...

Review: Knives Out

Posted 7 years ago

KNIVES OUT originally ran as part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. PLOT: The mysterious death of a superstar author (Christopher Plummer) attracts the attention of a world-famous detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who gathers the victim’s greedy relatives and his...

Review: Dark Waters

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A corporate attorney (Mark Ruffalo) is approached by a troubled farmer (Bill Camp) who believes the DuPont Company is responsible for polluting his property, which has led to his cattle dying off at alarming rates. Soon it becomes apparent...

Review: 21 Bridges

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An NYPD detective (Chadwick Boseman) shuts down the bridges to and from Manhattan to find two cop killers (Taylor Kitsch and Stephan James) who are on the run with fifty kilos of uncut coke. REVIEW: 21 BRIDGES is a...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Rocketeer

Posted 7 years ago

Review: Line of Duty

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A disgraced beat cop (Aaron Eckhart) races against time to find the missing daughter of the police chief (Giancarlo Esposito) but has to tangle with a pesky journalist (Courtney Eaton) bent on documenting his efforts, even as they’re both...

Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Posted 7 years ago

Originally reviewed as part of the Toronto International Film Festival. PLOT: An investigative reporter (Matthew Rhys) is assigned a four hundred word puff piece on beloved children’s TV host Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks). Bent on getting behind his cheery facade,...

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