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: Hotel Artemis

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In a riot-plagued, futuristic Los Angeles, a no-nonsense nurse (Jodie Foster) runs a secret clinic for criminals called Hotel Artemis. The rules? No cops and no killing, but it turns out those are rules the other patients and even...

Review: Ocean’s 8

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Newly released from prison, con-woman Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), and right-hand-partner Lou (Cate Blanchett) pull together a crew for their most ambitious heist yet, stealing a $150 million Cartier necklace from the Met Ball. REVIEW: The durability of the...

Review: 211

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A veteran cop (Nicolas Cage) with a teenaged ride-along, finds himself in the middle of a firefight with bank-robbing, armed-to-the-teeth mercenaries. REVIEW: How low is the bar going to get set? That’s what I kept thinking to myself watching...

Review: Hereditary

Posted 8 years ago

This review was originally featured in our Sundance 2018 coverage PLOT: A seemingly happy family is un-moored by a tragedy, but dark forces are at work that put their very souls in jeopardy. REVIEW: Watching HEREDITARY will no doubt be...

Review: American Animals

Posted 8 years ago

This review was originally part of our Sundance 2018 coverage PLOT: The true story of the “Transy Book Heist”, where four Lexington, Kentucky university student stole rare books worth millions from their own college library. REVIEW: AMERICAN ANIMALS marks the...

Review: Adrift

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Shailene Woodley) and her badly wounded fiancée (Sam Claflin) find themselves adrift on a wrecked yacht after falling prey to a hurricane – leaving them with no hope of rescue. REVIEW: ADRIFT is another in those...

TV Review: Westworld, Season 2, Episode 6

Posted 8 years ago

This recap/review of Westworld is written with the expectation that everyone who reads this and comments below will have seen the episode already. Thus, if you’ve yet to see the episode in question, DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER. SPOILERS! EPISODE:...

Review: First Reformed

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A reverend (Ethan Hawke) suffering a crisis of faith, becomes involved with a young couple, both of whom are environmental activists, and open his eyes to issues that soon lead him astray. REVIEW: You really never know, do you?...

Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A young soldier named Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) joins a band of smugglers, led by a mastermind named Beckett (Woody Harrelson) who ropes him and his new pal, Chewbacca, into a dangerous heist for the galaxy's most powerful gangster....