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: Richard Donner

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of character actor Keith David – a tough guy in many eighties and nineties classics. This week, we go behind the camera to examine a director who gave us some...

Review: The Angry Birds Movie

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A moderately angry bird named Red (Jason Sudeikis) finds himself forced to take anger management classes. But, when an army of seemingly friendly pigs invade Bird Island, Red winds up being the only bird to get his feathers ruffled...

Review: The Nice Guys

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A down-on-his-luck private eye (Ryan Gosling) and a hired enforcer (Russell Crowe) team-up to track down the runaway daughter of the L.A District attorney (Kim Basinger), whose disappearance is somehow tied-in to the violent demise of a porn star....

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Keith David

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of eighties legend Tom Selleck. This week's badass is someone who rarely gets his due, but has made a massive impression in a variety of genres and remains an icon...

Review: I Am Wrath

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A former mercenary-turned-family man (John Travolta) returns to his deadly trade after his wife (Rebecca De Mornay) is killed in an attack with links to the explosion of gang violence in his city. REVIEW: It’s really a shame that...

Review: The Trust

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Two bored Las Vegas cops (Nicolas Cage & Elijah Wood) think they can score some easy cash when a drug dealer installs a sophisticated safe in one of his cover businesses. Little do they know exactly what the safe...

Review: Money Monster

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: An obnoxious TV financial guru (George Clooney) is taken hostage live on-air, by a young man (Jack O’Connell) financially ruined by one of his stock tips. REVIEW: When it comes to being a film critic, there’s absolutely nothing...

Review: A Bigger Splash

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A rock star (Tilda Swinton) recovering from an operation finds her idyllic holiday with her documentarian lover (Matthias Schoenaerts) disturbed by the arrival of another former lover – a brash rock producer (Ralph Fiennes) with his daughter (Dakota Johnson)...

Review: Last Days in the Desert

Posted 10 years ago

This was previously reviewed as part of our Sundance 2015 coverage. PLOT: Towards the end of his forty-day exile in the desert, Jesus Christ (Ewan McGregor) finds himself locked in a battle of wits over the souls of...

Review: Love & Friendship

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Newly widowed and destitute, Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) enlists the aid of her American friend, Alicia (Chloe Sevigny) in a scheme designed to net her a rich new husband. REVIEW: In a way, Jane Austen adaptations are basically...

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