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: I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore

Posted 10 years ago

This was originally reviewed as part of our Sundance 2017 coverage. PLOT: After her home is burglarized, a depressed nurse (Melanie Lynskey) and her oddball neighbor (Elijah Wood) try to track down the culprits, but find themselves pulled into an...

Review: The Girl With All the Gifts

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: In a dystopian future where society has broken down following a viral outbreak that started a zombie plague, a young girl (Sennia Nanua) may hold the key to mankind’s ultimate salvation – or destruction. REVIEW: We’re quickly reaching a...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Laurence Fishburne

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Laurence Fishburne Laurence Fishburne has been a badass for longer than I’ve been alive. I mean, as far as subjects of this column go, it doesn’t get much cooler than the fact that Fishburne, at fourteen, lied about his...

Review: Get Out

Posted 10 years ago

GET OUT was originally reviewed 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...

Review: Logan

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: In a near-future where mutants are mostly extinct, an aging Logan (Hugh Jackman) ekes out a living as a chauffeur under an assumed identity. He uses most of his money to buy much-needed illegal meds for Charles Xavier (Patrick...

Review: Fist Fight

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: After a school’s tough history teacher, Mr. Strickland (Ice Cube), is ratted out by his meek colleague, Mr. Campbell (Charlie Day) causing him to lose his job, he challenges his fellow teacher to meet him for a fist fight...

Review: The Great Wall

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: In Song dynasty era China, a roving mercenary (Matt Damon) and his partner (Pedro Pascal) are interrupted in their quest for an elusive black powder by a supernatural attack that ends with them prisoners of a Chinese Military order...

XX (Movie Review)

Posted 10 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2017 coverage PLOT: A new anthology directed solely by women: A woman is puzzled when her children stop eating, another mom tries her best to keep her daughter’s birthday from...

Review: A Cure for Wellness

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A crooked young executive (Dane DeHaan) is sent to a remote clinic in the Swiss Alps to recover his company’s CEO. When there, he discovers the residents either can’t or won’t leave, with the clinic’s deadly secret being tied...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Observe and Report

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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