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 Ritual

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Following a tragedy, four friends (Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier and Sam Troughton) hike through the Swedish Highlands, where they encounter an ancient evil that will bring their greatest fears to life. REVIEW: THE RITUAL is something of...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Rookie (1990)

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: The 15:17 to Paris

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Thalys train attack heroes Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos. REVIEW: From day one, critics have been sharpening their knives for Clint Eastwood’s THE 15:17 TO PARIS. His decision to cast Stone,Sadler and Skarlatos...

Review: Winchester

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A dissolute psychiatrist (Jason Clarke) is hired by the Winchester gun company to perform a psychiatric evaluation of the company’s largest shareholder, Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), who believes she’s a medium and is bent on bringing peace to the...

Sundance 2018 wrap-up!

Posted 9 years ago

I can’t believe it’s already over! It felt like just yesterday I was writing about how excited I was to be covering the Sundance Film Festival for my eighth year, but, over twenty reviews later, it’s in the books. Overall,...

Review: Ophelia (Sundance)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as re-imagined from the perspective of his lover, Ophelia (Daisy Ridley). REVIEW: OPHELIA is the worst thing to happen to Shakespeare since Roland Emmerich’s Oxfordian theory film, ANONYMOUS. However well-intentioned it may be, it plays like some...

Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbour (Sundance)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The life and career of beloved children’s entertainer Fred Rogers, from his humble beginnings as a seminary student, to his eventual iconic rise as the star of “Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood.” REVIEW: To those of us of a certain age,...

Assassination Nation (Sundance Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The citizens of a small town collectively lose their minds after a hacker leaks all their cell-phone data online. Desperate, fourteen girls become the target of the enraged town due to flimsy evidence linking them to the crime. REVIEW:...

Review: Braven

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A family man logger (Jason Momoa) and his dad (Stephen Lang) travel into the woods to close up their cabin for the winter, only to discover a huge supply of heroin has been stashed there, and its owners have...