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: Ant-Man

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Former cat-burglar Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is given a chance at redemption when scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) chooses him for a top-secret mission to infiltrate his old company and destroy a prototype that allows people to be...

Review: Mr. Holmes

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) – now ninety-three and long-retired – struggles to recall the events of his final case with the help of his housekeeper (Laura Linney) and her young son (Milo Parker). REVIEW: Despite the last...

Review: Amy

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: The life of Amy Winehouse, through her career as a Grammy-winning superstar, through her sad decline into drug addiction and death at twenty-seven years old. REVIEW: Asif Kapadia' AMY is one of the year's most surprising films. While I...

TV Review: True Detective: Season 2: Episode 4

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Season 2, Episode 4: Down Will Come SUMMARY: As Velcoro (Colin Farrell), Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) and Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) start to make headway on the Caspere murder, the push back from the Vinci bureaucracy starts to intensify to the...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Paul Rudd

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the career of mega-director James Cameron. This week's subject is an actor most of us know through his work in comedy, but is primed to make a huge jump to the A-list...

Review: The Death of Superman Lives – What Happened?

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Filmmaker/Superman fan Jon Schnepp tries to get to the bottom of what exactly happened with Tim Burton’s aborted SUPERMAN LIVES, which would have starred Nicolas Cage in the title role. REVIEW: Film history is full of those great...

TV Review: The Strain: Season 2, Episode 1

Posted 11 years ago

Episode 1: BK, NY SUMMARY: Having failed to kill “The Master”, Professor Abraham Setrakian (David Bradley) finds himself taken before “The Ancients” – a group of Strigoi looking to resume the balance and eliminate The Master. Meanwhile, Eph (Corey...

Review: The Gallows

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Twenty years after a disastrous high school production of ‘The Gallows’ resulted in the accidental death of a student, the drama club tries to re-stage the play. When some of the new kids involved with the play...

Review: Self/Less

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A terminally-ill billionaire (Ben Kingsley) signs up for a process called “shedding” where his consciousness will be transferred into a younger body that’s been biologically engineered to be free of any flaws. To his horror, he discovers that...

TV Review: Penny Dreadful – Season 2: Episode 10

Posted 11 years ago

Season 2, Episode 10: And They Were Enemies SUMMARY: Vanessa (Eva Green) comes face-to-face with her greatest adversary in order to save an imprisoned Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) and Victor (Harry Treadaway). REVIEW: And so another episode of Penny Dreadful...

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