Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,011 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: Aquaman (Bumbray)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: When Orm (Patrick Wilson), the newly crowned ruler of Atlantis, declares war on dry land, Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) aka Aquaman must fulfill his destiny and take his place as the King of Atlantis. REVIEW: I’ll admit that I...

Review: Welcome to Marwen

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After a near fatal beating leaves him with no memory of his life prior to his attack, a former illustrator (Steve Carell) finds solace in the imaginary, WW2-era world of Marwen, populated by action figure surrogates of him and...

Review: Bumblebee

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After the fall of Cybertron, Optimus Prime sends Bumblebee to Earth as his emissary. When he’s followed by two Decepticons that smash his vocal cords and leave him with amnesia, he must rely on a rebellious teenaged girl to...

Review: The Mule

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A ninety year old horticulturist (Clint Eastwood) tries to make some quick money by becoming an unlikely drug mule for the Cartel. Soon however, his own success puts him on the map of a determined DEA agent (Bradley Cooper)...

Best Movies of 2018 – First Reformed

Posted 8 years ago

As another great year of movies comes to a close, JoBlo.com staff will be curating our selection of the best films of 2018. Whether it be animation or live action, comedy or drama, horror or action (or maybe even a...

Review: Mortal Engines

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In a post-apocalyptic future, the remnants of civilization are divided into two camps: Tractionists, who roam the wasteland in giant mobile cities eating up smaller cities, and Anti-Tractionists – who seek to rebuild civilization by settling on land. Head...

Review: Backtrace

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After a heist gone wrong, a thief (Matthew Modine) finds himself stricken with amnesia. Seven years later, he’s busted out of prison by a mysterious gang holding a drug that may restore his memory, while he’s hunted by a...

Review: Mary Poppins Returns

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: When the grown-up Banks children (Ben Whislaw & Emily Mortimer) are faced with losing their family home to an unscrupulous bank manager (Colin Firth), Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to save the day. REVIEW: I suspect I’m too much...

Review: Once Upon A Deadpool

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) kidnaps Fred Savage in order to tell him a sanitized version of the events depicted in DEADPOOL 2. REVIEW: Despite the clever trailers and online buzz, which suggested this was something more than a toned-down version...

Review: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Mowgli (Rohan Chand) survives the massacre of his parents and is taken under the wing of a wolf pack roaming the jungle, while he’s trained by Bagheera (Christian Bale) and Baloo (Andy Serkis) to survive in this harsh, unforgiving...

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