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: Colin Farrell

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of actor Ethan Hawke. This week’s subject is another star who’s managed to navigate the tricky jump from heartthrob to character actor/leading man… Colin Farrell Hype is a dangerous thing....

Review: Bad Moms

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Three young mothers (Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell) rebel against the expectations of a generation of helicopter parents and embrace a more chaotic, laissez-faire style of motherhood. REVIEW: BAD MOMS was a very pleasant mid-summer surprise. In...

Review: The Wailing (Fantasia Review)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A policeman working in a small South Korean town finds that many of his townsfolk are being afflicted with a mysterious illness that results in a rash, violent mental derangement, and finally – death. When his beloved daughter is...

Review: Skiptrace (Fantasia Review)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: To save his God-daughter, a Hong Kong cop (Jackie Chan) must deliver a fast-talking American gambler (Johnny Knoxville) to Macau, who’s been abducted by Russian goons. REVIEW: This is an interesting time for Jackie Chan. After having spent the...

Review: Nerve

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A shy teen (Emma Roberts) enters a popular online game, “Nerve”, on a dare. After she’s teemed-up with a mysterious fellow player (Dave Franco) she becomes a virtual prisoner of the game, with the dares she’s asked to fulfill...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Ethan Hawke

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of master director Brian De Palma. This week, we go back in front of the camera to examine the work of one of our most prolific leading men/ character actors…...

Review: Ice Age: Collision Course

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: When Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel, somehow winds-up in space, he causes an apocalyptic meteor shower that threatens to make Manny (Ray Romano), the wholly mammoth, and his other pals extinct. Teaming-up with “dinosaur whisperer”, Buck (Simon Pegg) they set...

Review: Star Trek Beyond (Chris Bumbray’s take)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Towards the end of the third year in his five-year-mission, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) finds himself questioning his motivations for joining Starfleet and pondering life away from a starship captaincy. His ennui is interrupted by a distress...

Review: Lights Out (Fantasia Review)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Teresa Palmer) has to confront a dark family secret when a malevolent spirit starts haunting her estranged mother (Maria Bello) and brother (Gabriel Bateman). REVIEW: One of the cool things about the Fantasia Film Festival in...

Review: For the Love of Spock (Fantasia Review)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Director Adam Nimoy explores his father Leonard Nimoy’s enduring legacy as the most popular character in STAR TREK history – Spock. He also shines a light on his own, complicated relationship with his father, and the challenges of being...

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