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: Pee Wee’s Big Holiday

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) leaves his beloved hometown in search of adventure as he travels to New York City to attend his best friend Joe Manganiello’s (Joe Manganiello) birthday party. REVIEW: Who would have thought that with all the...

Review: Miracles From Heaven

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A devoutly Christian woman (Jennifer Garner) has a crisis of faith when her ten-year-old daughter (Kylie Rogers) is stricken with a deadly, incurable disease. REVIEW: MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN is the latest release from Sony Affirm, a boutique division of...

Review: The Divergent Series: Allegiant

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley), her lover Four (Theo James) and other refugees from Chicago discover the faction system is a lie engineered by survivors outside the city, led by the duplicitous David (Jeff Daniels) as an experiment to discover...

TV Review: Better Call Saul – Season Two – Episode 5

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...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Michael Shannon

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career legendary character actor George Kennedy. This week's subject is more contemporary character actor and one of the brightest talents of his generation… Michael Shannon I've been covering films on JoBlo.com...

Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Following a violent car accident, a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in an underground shelter run by a survivalist (John Goodman) who claims they’ve survived an attack that’s left the earth uninhabitable. REVIEW: 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE is...

TV Review: Better Call Saul – Season Two – Episode 4

Posted 10 years ago

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: George Kennedy

Posted 10 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of enigmatic director Terrence Malick. This week’s actor is a guy celebrated for a totally different kind of work, but a late icon who made his mark in a big...

Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: In late 2003, a desk-bound journalist (Tina Fey) volunteers to cover the war in Afghanistan for her 24-hour news network. A three month assignment suddenly becomes a new way of life as she finds herself addicted to the danger...

Review: London Has Fallen

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: After a terrorist attack on London ends with most of the leaders of the Western world dead, it's up to Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) to keep the U.S president alive until an extraction team can reach...

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