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: Mean Dreams

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Jonas (Josh Wiggins), a sheltered teen living on his folks’ ranch in the Great Lakes region, falls for his new neighbor, Casey (Sophie Nélisse), whose father, Wayne (Bill Paxton), is the new deputy sheriff of his small town. Upon...

Review: Personal Shopper

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Kristen Stewart) takes a job as a diva’s personal shopper in order to stay in Paris, where she hopes she’ll be able to communicate with the spirit of her dead twin brother. REVIEW: It’s clear that...

Review: Brimstone

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young, mute woman (Dakota Fanning) and her adopted children are forced to flee for their lives when a mad preacher (Guy Pearce) arrives in town. REVIEW: How on earth did BRIMSTONE ever get made? I don’t mean that...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Bill Paxton

Posted 9 years ago

Chris Bill Paxton While the flub heard around the world dominated headlines the morning after Oscar Sunday, earlier that day the news broke that Bill Paxton, one of Hollywood’s most beloved character actors, had passed away. At only sixty-one, this...

Review: Headshot

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A man (Iko Uwais) with a bullet in his head, washes-up on the beach of a small town in Indonesia. He’s nursed back to health by a kindly doctor, but when thugs come looking for him, his dark past...

Review: Kong: Skull Island

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A team of explorers, led by a military escort, land on a hidden island, which they discover is populated by fantastic beasts, all who whom are lorded over by a giant ape – KING KONG! REVIEW: KONG: SKULL ISLAND...

Review: Before I Fall

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A popular teenager (Zoey Deutch) is doomed to relive the same, deadly, day over and over again when her and her friends, after bullying the school outcast, seemingly perish in a car accident. REVIEW: Based on the YA novel...

Review: Wolves

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A star teenaged athlete (Taylor John Smith), hoping to land a Cornell scholarship, has to contend with his abusive father (Michael Shannon), whose gambling debts threaten to unravel his family and quash his dreams. REVIEW: Bart Freundlich’s WOLVES is...

Get Out (Movie Review)

Posted 10 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2017 coverage PLOT: A young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) parents in the country, and immediately senses something sinister is afoot. REVIEW: GET OUT marks the...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Shadow

Posted 10 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...

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