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: The Lego Batman Movie

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: When the independent Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson) is appointed Gotham City’s new commissioner, the egotistical Batman’s (Will Arnett) place as a lone avenger is threatened, especially when the caped crusader inadvertently adopts a very eager orphan named Dick Grayson...

Review: John Wick: Chapter 2

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: An old debt sends John Wick (Keanu Reeves) to Rome, where a high-level assassination ends with him in the cross-hairs of any killer interested in collecting a $7 million bounty. REVIEW: The first JOHN WICK was an action fan’s...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: John Hurt

Posted 10 years ago

Chris John Hurt I was at Sundance when I heard that John Hurt had passed on. Being a long-time fan of one of Britain’s truly great actors, I was surprised that I’d never written him up for this column. Maybe...

Review: The Space Between Us

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: An astronaut on the first mission to mars becomes pregnant, and gives birth to a son, dying in the process. Sixteen years later, the now-grown boy (Asa Butterfield), whose body has adapted to Mars’s gravity, is brought back to...

2017 Sundance Wrap-Up and Top 5

Posted 10 years ago

And so another edition of the Sundance Film Festival is in the books. The 2017 edition marked my eighth year wandering around Park City, Utah, and it was a memorable fest, with blizzard conditions in the first week, cyber-attacks, protests...

Review: War on Everyone starring Alexander Skarsgard & Michael Pena

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Two misanthropic New Mexico cops (Michael Pena & Alexander Skarsgård) on the verge of being fired for their corrupt ways, go on the trail of a missing million dollar score, winding up face-to-face with an English mobster (Theo James)...

Berlin Syndrome (Sundance Review) starring Teresa Palmer

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: An Australian backpacker (Teresa Palmer) traveling through Germany has a one-night stand with a stranger (Max Riemelt) only to discover the next morning that he’s made her a captive in his prison-like apartment. REVIEW: The premise for BERLIN SYNDROME...

Review: Sidney Hall (Sundance) starring Logan Lerman & Elle Fanning

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A young writer (Logan Lerman) drops off the face of the earth after his first two novels become best-sellers. Years later, an investigator (Kyle Chandler) tries to figure out what happened to him. REVIEW: Watching SIDNEY HALL at Sundance,...

Review: The Hero (Sundance) starring Sam Elliot

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Following a bleak medical diagnosis, an aging Western star (Sam Elliott) comes to terms with his mortality and tries to mend his fractured relationships – all the while hoping for one last shot at glory. REVIEW: Sam Elliott has...