Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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!

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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...

TV Review: Black Mirror: San Junipero & Nosedive

Posted 10 years ago

This Black Mirror review was previously run as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: In this sampling of episodes from the third season of ‘Black Mirror’, a young woman (Mackenzie Davis) makes an unexpected connection, while an insecure office...

Review: Keeping Up with the Joneses

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Two bored suburbanites (Zach Galifianakis & Isla Fisher) become convinced that their exciting new neighbors (Jon Hamm & Gal Gadot) are spies. REVIEW: How does a movie like KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES go so awry? On paper, this...

Review: In A Valley of Violence

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A gunslinger (Ethan Hawke) finds himself in a world of trouble after passing through a town ruled by a ruthless lawman (John Travolta) and his cowardly son. REVIEW: IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE is something different for director Ti...

We Interview Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders & more – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Posted 10 years ago

I’ve always been a Tom Cruise fan. Having been born in ‘81, the same year Cruise made his debut in TAPS, I consider myself a first-generation fan. My earliest memories of movie-watching are of me watching TOP GUN, taped off...

Review: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) returns to his former Washington D.C command in order to clear the name of his friend, Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), who’s been accused of espionage. Along the way, he also discovers he may have...

TV Review: Ash Vs. Evil Dead – Season 2, Episode 3

Posted 10 years ago

Season 2, Episode 3: Last Call SUMMARY: Ash (Bruce Campbell) tries to recover his stolen Oldsmobile with ill-conceived plan to throw a massive party where he’ll dose all the town’s teens with Ketamine. Oh Ash. REVIEW: Of the first few...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Ian McShane

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we examined the career of badass character actor J.K. Simmons. This week’s subject is another, older character actor who has elevated badassdom to an art… Ian McShane Most Americans probably weren’t really aware of Ian McShane until...

TV Review: Westworld Season 1, Episode 3: The Stray

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:...

Review: USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Following a top-secret mission to deliver parts of the atomic bomb in the summer of 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese sub. The survivors, including Captain Charles McVay (Nicolas Cage) are stuck in shark infested waters...

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