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: Loving

Posted 10 years ago

LOVING was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: The true story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga) Loving, who fought for over a decade to have their marriage deemed legal in opposition to Virginia’s...

TV Review: Ash Vs. Evil Dead – Season 2, Episode 5

Posted 10 years ago

Season 2, Episode 5: Confinement SUMMARY: The gang has to spring Ash (Bruce Campbell) from jail, but soon find him being locked-up is the least of their worries. REVIEW: I’m starting to think that Ash Vs Evil Dead has a...

Review: Inferno

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) wakes up with a major head-wound in a hospital in Florence, Italy, with no memory of the last forty-eight hours. On the run from assassins and the authorities, Langdon teams-up with a young MD (Felicity...

TV Review: Black Mirror – Man Against Fire & Hated in the Nation

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: In the final two episodes of “Black Mirror”, a soldier (Malachi Kirby) finds his military tech malfunctioning, discovering a disturbing secret in the process, while a London detective (Kelly MacDonald) investigates the murder of a despised blogger. REVIEW: Well,...

Review: American Pastoral

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The story of Seymour "Swede" Levov (Ewan McGregor), a former golden-boy athlete, whose picturesque life is ruined when his activist daughter (Dakota Fanning) participates in a political act of terrorism. REVIEW: Despite the works of Philip Roth being notoriously...

TV Review: Black Mirror – Playtest & Shut Up and Dance

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: In these two episodes of “Black Mirror”, an American tourist (Wyatt Russell) tests-out a dangerously realistic new game, while a teenaged-boy (Alex Lawther) finds himself blackmailed into a series of dangerous tasks after being – literally – caught with...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Ron Howard

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we went into the long, extremely badass career of actor Ian McShane. This week’s subject started out in-front of the camera, but found his place as an A-list director, producing a superb body of work that’s going...

TV Review: Westworld, Season 1, Episode 4: “Dissonance Theory”

Posted 10 years ago

This recap/review of Westworld is written with the expectation that everyone who reads this and comments below will have seen the episode already. Thus, if you've yet to see the episode in question, DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER. SPOILERS! EPISODE:...

TV Review: Ash Vs. Evil Dead – Season 2, Episode 4

Posted 10 years ago

Season 2, Episode 4: DUI SUMMARY: Following the death of his father (Lee Majors), Ash (Bruce Campbell) pursues his now-possessed Oldsmobile, which – to make matters worse – has also imprisoned Pablo (Ray Santiago). REVIEW: This fourth episode of Ash...

Review: The Whole Truth

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A lawyer (Keanu Reeves) is tasked with defending the child of a family friend (Renee Zellweger) who’s been accused of murdering his violent father. REVIEW: The world of VOD has become an interesting side-effect of both the explosion of...

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