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!

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Judgment Night

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: Luce

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is the star pupil at his exclusive private school. He’s got a bright future ahead of him, even though he spent the first seven years of his life coming of age in a war-torn country....

Review: The Red Sea Diving Resort

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A Mossad agent (Chris Evans), bent on evacuating thousands of Jewish Ethiopians from Sudan to Israel, hatches an operation where he and his fellow agents operate a fictitious hotel on the coast of Port Sudan as a cover for...

Review: Skin

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A heavily inked skinhead (Jamie Bell) undergoes two years’ worth of painful tattoo removal laser surgeries to leave his violent past behind and start a new life. REVIEW: Guy Nattiv’s SKIN isn’t the first skinhead redemption movie ever made,...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Innerspace!

Posted 7 years ago

A Good Woman is Hard to Find (Fantasia review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young Irish widow (Sarah Bolger) with two young children to support is put into a horrible position when a young drug dealer forces her to hide the stash of drugs he stole from his psychotic boss. REVIEW: A...

Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Hollywood, 1969. Middle-aged former cowboy TV star, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), and his best friend/stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) find themselves faced with a changing Tinseltown. Meanwhile, Rick’s next-door-neighbor, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), seems on the verge of...

1BR (Fantasia Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young woman’s (Nicole Brydon Bloom) dream apartment in L.A turns out to be a nightmare once she discovers the secret behind her fellow tenants close-knit community. REVIEW: Sorting through the world premieres at as extensive a festival as...

Stare (Fantasia Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Two university students, whose friends died in similarly gruesome ways, uncover the secret of a vengeful spirit called Shirai-San, whose name, when spoken, carries a terrible curse. REVIEW: There’s something very retro about what’s going on with Japanese horror...

Review: Point Blank

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An emergency room nurse’s (Anthony Mackie) pregnant wife is kidnapped and the only way to get her back is to help a wounded con (Frank Grillo) break out of the hospital and avoid capture. REVIEW: It’s interesting that Netflix,...

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