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: The Outsider

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: An ex-American serviceman (Jared Leto) being held in a Japanese prison several years after the end of WW2, saves the life of a Yakuza gangster (Tadanobu Asano) and upon his release is invited to join their ranks. REVIEW: It’s...

TV Review: Ash Vs. Evil Dead – Season 3, Episode 1 & 2

Posted 9 years ago

Check out this double-bill review of the first two episodes of “Ash Vs. Evil Dead”, season three. Warning – SPOILERS! Season 3, Episode 1: Family SUMMARY: When the Necronomicon is dug up, Ash (Bruce Campbell) once again has to fight...

Death Wish (Movie Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: After a home invasion leaves his wife dead and his daughter in a coma, a mild-mannered surgeon, Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) takes the law into his own hands, and begins murdering criminals. REVIEW: DEATH WISH is no doubt a...

Review: Mute

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A mute Amish bartender (Alexander Skarsgard) navigates a futuristic Berlin to find the love of his life, whose disappearance is somehow linked to the antics of two former military surgeons (Paul Rudd & Justin Theroux). REVIEW: I knew something...

Mohawk (Movie Review)

Posted 9 years ago

THIS REVIEW ORIGINALLY RAN AS PART OF OUR FANTASIA 2017 COVERAGE PLOT: During the war of 1812, a young Mohawk woman (Kaniehtiio Horn) and her two lovers, a fellow Mohawk, Calvin (Justin Rain) and English Indian agent, Joshua (Eamon Farren)...

Review: Red Sparrow

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: An injured Russian ballerina (Jennifer Lawrence) is forced by her cold-blooded spymaster uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts) into becoming a “sparrow”, an elite group of spies chosen for their attractiveness who use their sexuality to extract information from targets. REVIEW: RED...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: F/X

Posted 9 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: Annihilation

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A former soldier-turned-biologist (Natalie Portman) joins a five-woman team investigating a mysterious zone called “The Shimmer” after her husband (Oscar Isaac), the sole survivor of another mission to the zone, returns home gravely ill and with no memory. REVIEW:...

Review: Looking Glass

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Following a tragedy, a grieving husband (Nicolas Cage) and wife (Robin Tunney) invest their life-savings in a quiet motel. Soon, the husband discovers that one of the rooms has a hidden passage and a two-way mirror, turning him into...

Review: Black Panther (Bumbray’s take)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The newly crowned king of Wakanda, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) aka Black Panther, finds his claim to the throne challenged by an usurper, Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) with a dark connection to the royal family, and a radically different philosophy....

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