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!

TV Review: True Detective: Season 2: Episode 6

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Season 2, Episode 6: Church in Ruins SUMMARY: Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) goes undercover at a drug and sex fueled party to find a missing woman with info on Caspere’s blackmail tape. REVIEW: Even the most pessimistic True Detective fan...

Review: The End of the Tour

Posted 11 years ago

This was previously reviewed as part of our Sundance 2015 coverage. PLOT: In the winter of 1996, Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) is sent out to write a profile of author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), who’s nearing...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Forest Whitaker

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the career of writer-director Judd Apatow. This week, we're shifting gears to look at a solid performer who often goes under-appreciated… Forest Whitaker Forest Whitaker is the consummate character actor. While he's...

Review: Pixels

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: After an alien race misinterprets a NASA space capsule containing video feeds of classic circa-1982 arcade games as a declaration of war, a former gamer (Adam Sandler) and his arcade-obsessed friends are all that stand between the earth...

Review: Southpaw

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A boxing champ, Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), goes to pieces following a tragedy, losing his title, his home and the custody of his daughter. Broke and friendless, Billy must repair his fractured career if he ever hopes to...

Review: American Heist

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An ex-con (Hayden Christensen) is pulled into a dangerous heist by his estranged brother (Adrien Brody) – who’s just out of prison and owes the mob boss (Tory Kittles) orchestrating the job a debt he can’t repay. REVIEW:...

TV Review: The Strain: Season 2, Episode 2

Posted 11 years ago

Season 2, Episode 2: By Any Means SUMMARY: Eph (Corey Stoll) and Nora (Mia Maestro) face an ethical dilemma as they experiment on two newly infected survivors with the hope of learning more about the strigoi virus. REVIEW: As...

TV Review: True Detective: Season 2, Episode 5

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Season 2, Episode 5: Other Lives SUMMARY: Two months after the Vinci shootout, Velcoro (Colin Farrell), Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) and Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) have all moved on with their lives, but none of them can ignore the cover-up that’s...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Judd Apatow

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the career of actor Paul Rudd. This week, we look at the multi-faceted career of the man that arguably made Rudd a star… Judd Apatow I loved Judd Apatow before I...

TV Review: 7 Days in Hell

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: The shocking, (un)true story of tennis champs Aaron Williams (Andy Samberg) and Charles Poole (Kit Harington) who – for seven days at Wimbleton in 2001 – played the longest tennis match in history. REVIEW: As likely anyone else...

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