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!

Review: The Conjuring 2

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) travel to London, England, to investigate to haunting of a council estate in Enfield, which is threatening the safety and sanity of single mother Peggy Hodgson (Frances O’Connor) and her four...

Review: Now You See Me 2

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Eighteen months after the events of the first film, the four horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan and Dave Franco) along with their secret leader Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) are sent on a global mission in order to...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Sam Neill

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of producer Joel Silver. This week we're going in front of the camera again to look at an incredibly underrated performer… Sam Neill Who doesn’t respect Sam Neill? On the...

Review: Me Before You

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A working class girl (Emilia Clarke) is hired to be a caregiver for an aristocratic paraplegic (Sam Claflin). REVIEW: Imagine INTOUCHABLES if the paralyzed aristocrat was twenty years younger, the sassy caregiver was a gorgeous twenty something lady and...

Review: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The rise and fall of egotistical pop star Conner4real (Andy Samberg), who hits the big-time after leaving his boy band, The Style Boyz, but soon faces a massive downturn in his career after an ill-conceived album and tour. REVIEW:...

Review: Approaching the Unknown

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: An astronaut (Mark Strong) on a solo mission to Mars, struggles with technical disasters and loneliness when he’s cut-off from mission control. REVIEW: APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN has both the advantage and disadvantage of coming out after THE MARTIAN. Thematically...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Joel Silver

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of director Richard Donner. This week's subject is a frequent colleague of Donner's, and one who never quite gets the credit he deserves… Joel Silver While I'd argue that Jerry...

Review: The Do-Over

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A down-on-his-luck bank manager (David Spade) re-connects with an old high school buddy (Adam Sandler) who says he's an FBI agent. After a wild night of debauchery, the two fake their deaths in order to start their lives over...

Review: Alice Through the Looking Glass

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to Wonderland only to discover that her friend, The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), is ailing. In order to save him, Alice must travel back-in-time to rescue his presumed dead family, but she’s pursued by a...

Review: X-Men: Apocalypse

Posted 10 years ago

Read Eric Walkuski's review HERE PLOT: When an ancient, powerful mutant – Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) – is reawakened circa-1983, it’s up to a new group of X-Men led by Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), including Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Cyclops (Tye...

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