Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: When Queen Aurora (Elle Fanning) becomes engaged to Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson), her Godmother, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) must deal with Phillip’s two-faced mother, Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer) who's bent on destroying all faeries…especially her future in-law. REVIEW: MALEFICENT: MISTRESS...

The Lighthouse (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Two nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe) struggle with isolation and begin to lose a grip on their sanity when their promised replacements fail to show up. REVIEW: A24’s been a good studio for star Robert Pattinson...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Joaquin Phoenix

Posted 7 years ago

Chris A couple of years ago, we used to have this featured called “The Good, The Bad & The Badass”, where each week I profiled some of my favorite “badasses” from both behind and in front of the camera. Folks...

Review: The Lighthouse

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. PLOT: Two nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe) struggle with isolation and begin to lose a grip on their sanity when their promised replacements fail to show up. REVIEW:...

Review: Gemini Man

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An aging government assassin (Will Smith) on the verge of retirement is hunted by a clone of his younger self. REVIEW: GEMINI MAN has been around, in some form or another, since 1997. Originally set up as a Tony...

Little Monsters (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Dave (Alexander England), a boorish man-child, tries to impress his nephew’s gorgeous teacher, Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) by helping her chaperone a petting zoo field trip which, to his eventual dismay, turns out to be next door to a...

Joker (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, often bullied man living in squalor with this mother (Frances Conroy) in Gotham City. As the city’s gulf between the haves and have nots widens, Fleck’s fragile mindset teeters on the brink...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Falling Down

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: Memory: The Origins of Alien

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed at Sundance 2019. PLOT: An in-depth examination of the origins of Ridley Scott’s seminal 1979 classic and it’s enduring legacy as modern day mythology. REVIEW: MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN is the latest from documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe....

Review: Lucy in the Sky

Posted 7 years ago

LUCY IN THE SKY was reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2019 coverage. PLOT: An astronaut (Natalie Portman) returning to earth after a mission has trouble making sense of her earthbound life and falls into a self-destructive relationship with another...

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