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: Widows

Posted 8 years ago

This review originally appeared as part of TIFF 2018 PLOT: After her thief husband (Liam Neeson) is killed on a job, his widow (Viola Davis) tries to carry-out his final heist with the help of two other women (Michelle Rodriguez...

Review: The Girl in the Spider’s Web

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Lisabeth Salander (Claire Foy) is hired by a computer programmer to steal a program he developed for the NSA, which would give the user access to the world’s nuclear arsenal. When the program is in turn stolen by a...

Review: Overlord

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A group of American soldiers, dropped behind enemy lines in advance of the D-Day invasion, discover horrifying Nazi experiments designed to give Hitler’s army a literal “thousand year Reich.” REVIEW: One thing you need to know about OVERLORD going...

Review: Outlaw King

Posted 8 years ago

OUTLAW KING was reviewed at TIFF 2018 – since then the film has undergone edits and is now twenty minutes shorter. This review reflects the original TIFF cut. PLOT: Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) attempts to liberate Scotland from the...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

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: The Nutcracker and The Four Realms

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A young girl (Mackenzie Foy) is left a mysterious locked jeweled egg by her late mother. Her quest to find the key to the egg leads her to a parallel kingdom her mother once ruled, but which is now...

Review: Bohemian Rhapsody

Posted 8 years ago

Read Paul Shirey's take HERE! PLOT: An authorized biopic of the classic rock band Queen, from their early days in England, through their breakthrough success in North America, lead singer Freddie Mercury’s (Rami Malek) struggles with fame and excess and...

My Favorite Scary Movie: Videodrome (1983)

Posted 8 years ago

For the month of October, JoBlo.com staff will be gearing you up for the Halloween season with My Favorite Scary Movie, where we will share our favorite scary flicks, be it gory horror, supernatural thriller or bloody slasher flicks, lending...

Review: Johnny English Strikes Again

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After a cyber-attack reveals the identities of all currently serving MI7 agents, the British P.M (Emma Thompson) is forced to reactivate her only non-geriatric agent still off-the-grid, the one and only Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson). REVIEW: How is the...

Review: London Fields

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In a rapidly deteriorating London, an American writer (Billy Bob Thornton) becomes obsessed with his neighbor, a gorgeous clairvoyant named Nicola Six (Amber Heard) who’s had a vision of herself dying at the hands of a mystery man. Meanwhile,...

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