Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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!

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 3D (Fantasia Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: After failing to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), Skynet sends an advanced, indestructible T-1000 (Robert Patrick) back to kill a young John Connor (Edward Furlong), but not before the resistance is able to send a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to...

Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Bumbray)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: In the 28th century, intergalactic spacel agents Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) uncover a plot underway at Alpha, an ever expanding metropolis consisting over a thousand separate mini-planets and dimensions. REVIEW: Comparing VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF...

Review: Dunkirk

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The evacuation of Dunkirk, from the perspective of the soldiers stranded on the beach, to the civilian fleet that evacuated them, and the RAF pilots in the air that tried to protect them. REVIEW: DUNKIRK may be Christopher Nolan’s...

Review: First Kill

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: In an effort to reconnect with his family, a Wall Street wheeler-dealer (Hayden Christensen) takes his wife and son on a hunting trip to the small town he grew up in. When his son is kidnapped by crooks, he...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Ricochet

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: War for the Planet of the Apes

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Caesar (Andy Serkis) pursues a mad Colonel (Woody Harrelson) whose hatred of the Apes threatens to wipe them out once and for all. REVIEW: It’s unusual for a major studio to be so aggressive in showcasing a big tentpole...

Review: To The Bone (Sundance) starring Lily Collins & Keanu Reeves

Posted 9 years ago

TO THE BONE was originally reviewed as part of our Sundance 2017 coverage. PLOT: A twenty year old anorexic (Lily Collins) agrees to a last-ditch effort to recover her health, with her becoming an in-patient at an institution run by...

Exclusive: We interview the cast & crew of War for the Planet of the Apes!

Posted 9 years ago

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES continues the story of Andy Serkis’s Caesar, the ape hero, who we cheered on in RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, and continued into the sequel, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE...

TV Review: Tour de Pharmacy

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: At the 1982 Tour de France, an investigation results in all but five, heavily doped, riders being disqualified. REVIEW: TOUR DE PHARMACY is the follow-up to The Lonely Island’s well-received sports doc spoof, 7 DAYS IN HELL. Coming from...

Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming

Posted 9 years ago

Read Eric W.'s review here! PLOT: Peter Parker (Tom Holland), now operating as Spider-Man post “CIVIL WAR” tries to win the respect of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) by foiling the operations of Adrien Toomes (Michael Keaton), aka The Vulture,...

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