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: Silence

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Two 17th century Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield & Adam Driver) travel to Japan to find their former mentor, a priest (Liam Neeson) who has apparently renounced his faith. REVIEW: SILENCE is a film only Martin Scorsese could have made...

Review: Arsenal

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A straight-laced entrepreneur (Adrian Grenier) tries to rescue his older, ex-con brother (Johnathon Schaech) from the clutches of a deranged Southern mob boss (Nicolas Cage). REVIEW: I’ve long been fascinated by the series of B-action yarns churned out with...

Chris Bumbray’s Best Movies of 2016!

Posted 10 years ago

And so ends another year… Chris In retrospect, I have to say, 2016 started off with a real bang as far as movies are concerned, with a superlative Sundance selection and some solid arthouse and mainstream releases. For the first...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Brian Cox

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of character actor Brendan Gleeson, so this week, we owe it to another of his prolific peers to highlight his mighty accomplishments in front of the camera… Brian Cox Brian...

Review: Fences

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A former baseball player-turned-garbage man (Denzel Washington) tries to reconcile his lost dreams of glory while raising a family in 1950’s Pittsburgh. REVIEW: For those of you not in the know, FENCES is based on the 1987 Tony Award-winning...

Review: Hidden Figures

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), a mathematician who, along with her African American colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) overcame segregation to become invaluable members of the NASA brain trust in...

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Movie Review)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Small-town father-and-son coroners (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch) perform an emergency, late-night autopsy on the corpse of a young woman whose biology makes no sense. REVIEW: Of all the films I’ve seen at TIFF this year (nearly twenty as...

Review: Assassin’s Creed

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A death row inmate (Michael Fassbender) is given a reprieve by a mysterious corporation that wants to tap into memories from his past life as a 15th Century Spanish assassin, all in the hopes of finding the “apple of...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Brendan Gleeson

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of cult star Bruce Campbell. This week’s subject ranks as one of the most omnipresent character actors of the aughts… Brendan Gleeson There was a period, around the mid-2000’s, where...

Review: The Hollow Point

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The new Sherriff (Patrick Wilson) of a small town near the U.S/ Mexican border gets mixed up with a cartel plot to smuggle bullets over the border. Ill-equipped to deal with the sociopathic cartels, he’s forced to rely on...

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