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!

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Showdown in Little Tokyo

Posted 8 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: Vox Lux

Posted 8 years ago

VOX LUX was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2018 coverage. PLOT: The survivor of a school shooting becomes the world’s biggest pop star, but at what cost? REVIEW: Brady Corbet’s VOX LUX is a tough film to review,...

Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Teenager Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is bitten by a radioactive spider, and gains super human abilities. Recognizing these as the same possessed by Spider-Man, he seeks guidance, but soon finds himself forced to take up the mantle when a...

Review: Robin Hood (2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Returning from the Crusades, young Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) swears to avenge the war-mongering of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Mendelsohn), teaming with a Muslim soldier, John (Jamie Foxx) to bring peace to the land. REVIEW: As far...

Review: Green Book

Posted 8 years ago

This is a repost of our TIFF 2018 review. PLOT: In the early sixties, a famous pianist, Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) agrees to a tour of the Deep South, hiring a loosely connected wiseguy, Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) to be...

Review: Creed II (Bumbray’s take)

Posted 8 years ago

Read Paul Shirey's take HERE PLOT: Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), newly crowned the heavyweight champion of the world, is coerced into fighting Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), the son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the man who killed his father...

Review: Instant Family

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A happy, middle-class husband and wife (Mark Wahlberg & Rose Byrne) are eager to start a family. They decide to give adoption a try, but quickly wind up over their heads when the three children of a drug-addicted unfit...

Review: Ralph Breaks The Internet

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Things are going pretty well for Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly). No longer faced with an existential crisis, he’s back to loving his job, hanging out in his free time with his new found BFF, Vanellope (Sarah Silverman). However,...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Rob Roy

Posted 8 years ago

Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is tasked by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) to find Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), whose lineage makes him invaluable to the evil Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp). REVIEW: Here’s the thing about these FANTASTIC BEASTS movies –...

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