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: Kevin Spacey

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of legendary character actor Tommy Lee Jones. This week’s subject slips right into that same rarefied category, as truly an actor’s actor and a consummate pro… Kevin Spacey It’s hard...

Review: Green Room

Posted 10 years ago

This was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2015 coverage. PLOT: After a gig gone bad, a band of punk rockers find themselves locked in a life and death battle with a deadly gang of neo-Nazis. REVIEW: Jeremy Saulnier...

Review: Barbershop: The Next Cut

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Long time barbershop owner Calvin (Ice Cube) considers relocating to the North Side of Chicago due to rampant gang violence in his South Side home – a resolve strengthened once his son starts to flirt with joining a local...

TV Review: Better Call Saul – Season Two – Episode 9

Posted 10 years ago

Chris This recap/review of Better Call Saul 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...

Review: Colonia

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: After her boyfriend disappears during the 1973 Chilean military coup, a young woman (Emma Watson) infiltrates the infamous Colonia Dignidad cult, run by a psychotic preacher, Paul Schafer (Michael Nyqvist). REVIEW: COLONIA should have been a great movie. The...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Tommy Lee Jones

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. If he’s very lucky Gyllenhaal may go on to have a career as long as this week’s subject… Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones has had...

Review: One More Time

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A struggling musician (Amber Heard) moves back in with her aging crooner father (Christopher Walken) who’s trying to launch a comeback. REVIEW: At one point in ONE MORE TIME, Christopher Walken’s character, Paul, muses that he was born a...

Review: Everybody Wants Some!!

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A college freshman (Blake Jenner) on a baseball scholarship gets to know his teammates the weekend before classes start. REVIEW: Much has been made about how EVERYBODY WANTS SOME is a “spiritual sequel” to DAZED & CONFUSED, to the...

Review: Hardcore Henry

Posted 10 years ago

This review originally appeared in our coverage of TIFF 2015 PLOT: A cyborg tries to rescue his kidnapped wife with the help of a scientist (Sharlto Copley) and his army of clones. REVIEW: HARDCORE is the true definition of a...

TV Review: Better Call Saul – Season Two – Episode 8

Posted 10 years ago

Chris This recap/review of Better Call Saul 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...

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