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 Good, The Bad & The Badass: John Leguizamo

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of Winona Ryder, and this week, we look at the career of another perennially underrated talent… John Leguizamo John Leguizamo is one of those guys who’s such a great character...

Review: Ben-Hur

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a Jewish prince, is betrayed by his adopted Roman brother, Messala (Toby Kebbell), who accuses him of treason against Rome. Sent to the galleys as a slave, after a dramatic escape he hatches a plan...

Review: War Dogs

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Two twenty-something stoner buddies become arms dealers when they successfully bid on a government contract to supply arms to troops stationed in Iraq. REVIEW: THE HANGOVER 3 suggested that director Todd Phillips was eager to move away from zany...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Winona Ryder

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of legendary badass Jeff Bridges. This week’s badass is a super underrated one who’s finally on the cusp of a major comeback… Winona Ryder One of the many great things...

Review: Blood Father

Posted 10 years ago

BLOOD FATHER was originally reviewed as part of the 2016 Fantasia Film Festival. PLOT: An ex-con (Mel Gibson), who ekes out a living as a tattoo artist, is dragged into a war with a violent gang when his estranged daughter...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Michael Mann’s Thief

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...

Review: Florence Foster Jenkins

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The true story of eccentric socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep), who’s deluded herself into thinking she’s one of the world’s great opera singers despite a total lack of talent. With the help of her indulgent husband (Hugh Grant)...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Jeff Bridges

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of actor Colin Farrell. This week’s subject is Farrell’s co-star from 2009’s CRAZY HEART… Jeff Bridges A few weeks ago, I profiled the movie BLOWN AWAY as part of my...

Review: Nine Lives

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A busy tycoon (Kevin Spacey) is taught a lesson in family love when an eccentric pet shop owner (Christopher Walken) transforms him into a cat. His only hope is to mend fences with his estranged wife (Jennifer Garner) and...

Review: Suicide Squad

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: With Superman dead and a possibly meta-human threat on the way, government agent Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assembles a team of imprisoned supervillians to do her bidding, with the promise that each will have some of their sentence commuted....

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