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: Crazy Rich Asians

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), an NYU economics professor, travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend Nick’s (Henry Golding) family – who turn out to be extremely wealthy staples of high society – thrusting her into an incredible world of...

Review: The Meg

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A disgraced rescue diver (Jason Statham) is plucked from retirement to help save the crew of a billion dollar underwater research station, who are being menaced by a giant prehistoric shark. REVIEW: I really wanted to see THE MEG....

Review: A Prayer Before Dawn

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Billy Moore (Joe Cole) a young, meth-addict boxer from the UK, is arrested in Thailand and sentenced to three years in a brutal prison. There, he learns Muay Thai boxing as a way to conquer his demons, and hopefully...

Review: Summer of ’84

Posted 8 years ago

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED AT SUNDANCE'18 PLOT: Four friends find their carefree summer interrupted when one of them becomes convinced the nice cop who lives down the street is a serial killer. REVIEW: SUMMER OF ‘84 is the latest from the RKSS...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Ladyhawke

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: Christopher Robin

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Thirty years after his adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, a now grown-up Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) has forgotten all about his pals Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, and of course, Winnie the Pooh. Now a harried...

Ex. Donnie Yen talks his new film, why Star Wars didn’t work in China & more

Posted 8 years ago

I've been obsessed with martial arts cinema since about the time I turned thirteen, when I first laid my eyes on a VHS copy of the seminal Bruce Lee classic, ENTER THE DRAGON. That was my gateway drug of choice...

Review: The Spy Who Dumped Me

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A recently dumped woman (Mila Kunis), discovers her ex was a CIA agent and has left her in the possession of a flash drive wanted by the Russian mob. With her best friend (Kate McKinnon) in-tow, she jets off...

Searching (Fantasia 2018 Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A desperate father (John Cho) tries to solve the mystery of his daughter’s disappearance by exploring her digital footprint. REVIEW: SEARCHING played the Fantasia Film Festival as part of an intriguing sidebar they’ve featured this year highlighting producer Timur...

Review: Hot Summer Nights

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A teenaged boy (Timothée Chalamet) sent to stay with his aunt for the summer in Cape Cod, inadvertently gets tangled up in drug dealing when he falls under the spell of a local weed dealer (Alex Roe) and his...

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