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: Fargo, Season 3, Episode 1- SPOILERS

Posted 9 years ago

Season 3, Episode 1: The Law of Vacant Places SUMMARY: Emmit Stussy (Ewan McGregor) is the parking lot king of Minnesota, but all is not well in his kingdom. Almost bankrupted by the financial crisis, he took a loan from...

Review: Sand Castle

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: In 2003 Iraq, a young machine gunner (Nicholas Hoult) is part of a platoon tasked with repairing a broken water system in a dangerous village north of Baghdad. REVIEW: SAND CASTLE is another Netflix original film, meaning that it...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Scott Glenn

Posted 9 years ago

Chris Scott Glenn Scott Glenn has been in some pretty outstanding films. One of his earliest was Robert Altman’s NASHVILLE, and he also turned up in a small (but important) part in Francis Ford Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW, leading to his...

Review: The Fate of the Furious

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Dom’s (Vin Diesel) honeymoon with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is interrupted by a cyber-terrorist, Cipher (Charlize Theron), who blackmails him into double-crossing Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and the rest of his team during a job. Now seemingly a rogue...

Review: Salt and Fire

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Three UN doctors investigating a man-made ecological disaster are kidnapped by the CEO (Michael Shannon) of the multi-national company responsible. He chooses one of the doctors (Veronica Ferres) to accompany him to a rapidly expanding salt flat harboring a...

Review: Going in Style

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: After their pensions are wiped out, three elderly men (Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman & Alan Arkin) hatch a scheme where they’ll rob a bank and use the funds to make up for the money that was stolen from them....

Review: Aftermath

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: After a devastating air collision results in the death of his wife and daughter, a man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becomes dangerously obsessed with the air traffic controller (Scoot McNairy) who was on-duty during the accident . REVIEW: Arnold Schwarzenegger deserves...

Review: Their Finest

Posted 9 years ago

This was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: During the London Blitz, a young woman (Gemma Arterton) takes a job as a script writer for women’s dialogue in morale-boosting films. When an idea of hers gets...

Review: Gifted

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A man (Chris Evans) must battle his own mother in court over the custody of his niece, a child prodigy in mathematics. REVIEW: GIFTED marks the return of director Marc Webb (500 DAYS OF SUMMER) to lower-key indie fare...

Review: Mine

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A soldier (Armie Hammer), fleeing a failed mission in North Africa, is forced to cross a minefield, only to accidently activate one of them. Knowing he’ll be killed if he removes his foot from the mine, he’s forced to...

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