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: Anna

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young Russian woman (Sasha Luss) is transformed into a deadly assassin by the KGB and placed undercover as a fashion model, in the hopes of eliminating high-value targets. REVIEW: For me, there’s always been two Luc Besson’s. The...

Review: The Command

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Based on the true story of the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster, in which twenty-three sailors on board a crippled sub awaited rescue for five days while the Russian government refused aid from the UK and Norwegian crews standing...

Nightmare Cinema (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Five lost souls wander into an abandoned movie theater run by a ghoulish projectionist (Mickey Rourke) who presents them with terrifying visions of their inevitable damnation. REVIEW: NIGHTMARE CINEMA will no doubt be a welcome treat for fans of...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Streets of Fire

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: Shaft

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: When his best friend is killed, a young FBI data analyst (Jessie T. Usher) turns to his estranged father for help. It just so happens though that his dad happens to be the baddest muthaf**ker of all time –...

Review: Men in Black International

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A rookie MIB agent (Tessa Thompson) is sent to the London HQ, where she’s teamed with the branch’s top agent (Chris Hemsworth) in an effort to track down a mole within the organization. REVIEW: Can MEN IN BLACK work...

Review: American Woman

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A thirty-two-year-old woman (Sienna Miller) is left to raise her infant grandson when her teenage daughter vanishes. REVIEW: Sienna Miller as a grandmother? While the notion may raise some eyebrows, the math done in Jake Scott’s AMERICAN WOMAN checks...

Exclusive: We interview the cast & crew of Dark Phoenix!

Posted 7 years ago

Today sees the release of X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX, the presumably final installment in Fox’s X-MEN series, before moving over to the official MCU. Overall, I enjoyed the film more than most, despite some obvious flaws. I was lucky enough to interview...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Three O’Clock High

Posted 7 years ago

Review: Dark Phoenix

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) develops incredible powers after surviving a near-fatal mission in space. With her new abilities hard to control, members of her mutant family start to wonder whether she’s still the Jean they know or a dangerous...

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