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: Defending Your Life

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: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Posted 7 years ago

This review was originally run as part of JoBlo.com's 2019 Sundance Film Festival coverage. PLOT: Single mom Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins) is swept off her feet by a handsome, charismatic stranger (Zac Efron), only to be shocked when he’s arrested...

Review: Long Shot

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An unemployed journalist, Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), is hired as a speech-writer for the Secretary of State, Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), who just so happens to be his former childhood babysitter and a shoo-in for a presidential nomination in...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Brandon Lee’s Rapid Fire

Posted 7 years ago

Review: Avengers: Endgame (spoiler free)

Posted 7 years ago

SPOILER WARNING – Although this review is spoiler free, be advised that entering the comments section could potentially spoil things. While we try to keep out trolls and the like, we simply can't keep up with it at all times,...

The Curse of La Llorona (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A widowed social worker (Linda Cardellini), raising her kids in 1970s Los Angeles, inadvertently makes her family the target of an ancient curse. REVIEW: The way THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA is being sold is puzzling. The posters all...

The JoBlo Summer 2019 Movie Preview!

Posted 7 years ago

Chris It's finally here! After a lean couple of months that only had a handful of blockbuster sweet spots (such as the underrated ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL) the summer movie season is upon us! This looks to be one for the...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Falling Down

Posted 7 years ago

Review: The Curse of La Llorona

Posted 7 years ago

Hellboy (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Hellboy (David Harbour) struggles with his place in the world and his complicated relationship with his surrogate father, Trevor Bruttenholm (Ian McShane), while trying to stop an evil sorceress, Nimue, the Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich) from unleashing a plague...

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