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: Me and Earl & the Dying Girl

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An awkward high school senior, Greg (Thomas Mann) who moonlights as an aspiring filmmaker with his best pal, Earl (Ronald Cyler II) befriends a leukemia-stricken classmate, Rachel (Olivia Cooke). What begins as a simple friendship soon blooms into something...

Review: Jurassic World

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: More than twenty years after the Isla Nublar disaster, the former Jurassic Park has become a multi-billion dollar theme park, complete with genetically modified dino-hybrids. When the newest hybrid, the Indominus Rex, goes haywire and escapes into the park,...

Review: Live From New York!

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An insider’s look behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live. REVIEW: A lot has been written this year about Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary. Whatever can be said about the show’s uneven quality over the years no one can...

TV Review: Penny Dreadful: Season 2, Episode 6

Posted 11 years ago

Season 2, Episode 6: Glorious Horrors SUMMARY: Vanessa (Eva Green) breaks some horrible news to Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) only to be stunned by his unexpected reaction. Meanwhile, Victor (Harry Treadaway) prepares Lily (Billie Piper) for a ball thrown by...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Jeff Goldblum

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of action superstar Jackie Chan. This week’s badass is an unlikely but awesome addition to this column (suggested by JoBlo video editor Nick Bosworth) – that multi-generational icon known as...

Review: Insidious Chapter 3

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Several years before the Lambert family haunting, Elise (Lin Shaye) has turned her back on being a psychic after having a premonition of her death at the hands of a malevolent spirit. But, when teenage Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott)...

Binge Watchin’ TV Review: The Shield

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Welcome to Binge Watchin,’ where we take a look at some of the best TV shows available on streaming or disc that have a great catalogue of seasons to jump into and get sucked into the beautiful bliss of...

Review: Love & Mercy

Posted 11 years ago

LOVE & MERCY was previously reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's 2014 TIFF coverage. PLOT: The life of Beach Boys' visionary Brian Wilson, from his early struggles with mental illness as a young man, to his eventual rehabilitation in the...

Review: Entourage

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: When Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) is given a major studio to run, his first act of business is to bankroll Vincent Chase’s (Adrian Grenier) directorial debut, a $100 million plus extravaganza. When it runs over budget, Vince, Eric...

TV Review: Penny Dreadful: Season 2, Episode 5

Posted 11 years ago

Season 2, Episode 5: Above the Vaulted Sky SUMMARY: As our heroes prepare themselves for battle against the forces of evil, each of them embraces their long-repressed passions, with some having better outcomes than others. REVIEW: After last week’s relatively...

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