Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,011 Articles Published

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 Night Before

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Three best buddies (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen Anthony Mackie) spend a wild Christmas Eve on the town – with it planned as their last hurrah before moving-on to lead (presumably) more responsible lives. But, the last minute gift of...

TV Review: Fargo – Season 2, Episode 6

Posted 11 years ago

Season 2, Episode 6: Rhinoceros SUMMARY: Lou (Patrick Wilson) finds himself in the middle of a deadly standoff with the Gerhardt clan after they come to town looking to lynch Ed (Jesse Plemons) and Peggy (Kirsten Dunst). REVIEW: Poor Lou...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Woody Harrelson

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last time on The Good, The Bad & The Badass, we took a look at the career of leading man Clive Owen, whose career has been revitalized thanks to his turn on TV's The Knick. This week's subject is...

TV Review: Ash vs Evil Dead: Season 1 – Episode 3

Posted 11 years ago

Season 1, Episode 3: Books From Beyond SUMMARY: Ash tries to have the Necronomicon translated in order to stop the plague of Deadites, but lets himself get talked into unleashing a demon instead. Oops. REVIEW: Ash Vs Evil Dead is...

Review: Heist

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Desperate for cash, the father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) of a terminally ill child rip-offs a violent casino boss (Robert De Niro) and finds himself pinned-down by both gangsters and the cops on a crowded city bus with his...

Review: The 33

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: The true story of thirty-three Chilean miners, who found themselves trapped over 2000 feet underground for sixty-nine days with little-to-no hope of rescue. REVIEW: I wanted to like THE 33. In our era of big stars and tent...

TV Review: Fargo: Season 2, Episode 5 (SPOILERS)

Posted 11 years ago

Season 2, Episode 5: The Gift of the Magi SUMMARY: Lou (Patrick Wilson) is pressed into service for presidential candidate Ronald Reagan (Bruce Campbell), while Ed's (Jesse Plemons) resolve is tested in a big way. REVIEW: Damn, how good is...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Clive Owen

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last time on The Good, The Bad & The Badass , we took a look at the big-screen career of (fictional) super-spy extraordinaire James Bond. This week, we go back to looking at the career of a real person,...

Review: James White

Posted 11 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2015 coverage. PLOT: A young man (Christopher Abbott) struggles to come-to-terms with the death of his estranged father, as well as his mother's (Cynthia Nixon) terminal illness. REVIEW: We all...

TV Review: Ash vs Evil Dead: Season 1 – Episode 2

Posted 11 years ago

Season 1, Episode 2: Bait SUMMARY: Ash (Bruce Campbell) and Pablo (Ray Santiago)reluctantly try to help Kelly (Dana Delorenzo) save her father from her formerly dead mother (Mimi Rogers), only to be thrown for a loop when the woman...

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