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!

TV Review: Twin Peaks 2017, Episode 3 & 4 SPOILERS

Posted 9 years ago

This recap/review of Twin Peaks 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!...

Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Young Henry Turner’s (Brenton Thwaites) quest to save his cursed father, Will (Orlando Bloom), by finding the mythical trident of Poseidon, brings him face-to-face with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), who’s being pursued by the vengeful Captain Salazar (Javier...

Review: Black Butterfly

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A reclusive writer (Antonio Banderas) suffering from writers block, takes in a mysterious drifter (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who saved him from a local bully. REVIEW: BLACK BUTTERFLY is highly reminiscent of William Monahan’s recent MOJAVE, which shared the same...

Review: War Machine

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A four-star General (Brad Pitt) is brought to Afghanistan in order to finally end the war, only to find his personal ambitions do not mesh with the reality of the conflict, or the administration’s goals in that area. REVIEW:...

TV Review: Twin Peaks 2017, Episode 1 & 2 SPOILERS

Posted 9 years ago

Review: Alien: Covenant

Posted 9 years ago

Read Paul Shirey's review HERE PLOT: After a disastrous deep space accident, the crew of a ship carrying thousands of colonists, lands on a mysterious, habitable planet. Soon they discover this hidden paradise contains a deadly secret related to the...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Michael Parks

Posted 9 years ago

Chris Michael Parks I was very sad to hear, last week, that veteran character actor Michael Parks had died (and don’t even get me started on Powers Boothe, who’ll be this column’s next subject). I actually saw Parks once, at...

Review: Snatched

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: After being dumped, a woman (Amy Schumer) takes her paranoid mother (Goldie Hawn) along with her on a trip to Ecuador, only for the pair to fall-in with the wrong man, and wind-up kidnapped by a vicious kingpin. REVIEW:...

The Overlook Film Fest wrap-up

Posted 9 years ago

Just over a week ago, I received a late-evening email from one of my bosses at JoBlo/Arrow in the Head. In it, I was asked whether or not I’d like to fly to Oregon, where I’d be put up in...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Replacement Killers

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...

Load more articles