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: Good Kill

Posted 11 years ago

This was originally reviewed as part of JoBlo.com’s TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: An air-force drone pilot (Ethan Hawke) stationed in Vegas but remotely flying missions in Afghanistan, struggles with the reality of his new position. REVIEW: GOOD KILL...

Review: Pound of Flesh

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Deacon (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is an ex-special forces soldier in the Philippines to donate a kidney to his dying niece. After a drunken one-night stand, he wakes up in a bathtub full of ice, discovering that his kidney’s been...

Review: Mad Max: Fury Road

Posted 11 years ago

Check out JimmyO's video review right here! PLOT: Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) is taken prisoner by the followers of a tyrannical warlord, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). To escape, he's forced to make a pact with Joe's top lieutenant, the mysterious...

Exclusive: JoBlo.com’s Guide to Mad Max

Posted 11 years ago

Chris It's hard to believe it's been thirty years since the last MAD MAX movie, but sure enough MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is the character's first time on film in three decades. By now, everyone knows that the part's been...

TV Review: Penny Dreadful: Season 2, Episode 2

Posted 11 years ago

Season 2, Episode 2: Verbis Diablo SUMMARY: Following last week’s attack, Vanessa (Eva Green) goes to Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) for protection, but he may already be under Madame Kali’s (Helen McCrory) spell. Meanwhile, Victor (Harry Treadway) grooms the newly...

Review: Every Secret Thing

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Following their eighteenth birthdays, two girls, Ronnie (Dakota Fanning) and Alice (Danielle Macdonald) are released back into the community, having been sent to juvenile hall for the kidnapping and murder of an infant. Now pariahs, the two find themselves...

The Good, The Bad and The Badass: Mel Gibson

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the career of Joss Whedon, arguably one of the hottest names in showbiz right now. This week's star was arguably the biggest name in Hollywood throughout the nineties, and while his career...

Review: Maggie

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: In the midst of a viral outbreak, a farmer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) discovers his beloved daughter (Abigail Breslin) is infected. Now, he must keep her safe from quarantine even though he knows it’s only a matter of time before the...

Review: Hot Pursuit

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An uptight cop (Reese Witherspoon) is forced to protect the sexy widow (Sofia Vergara) of a drug lord after a double-cross leaves a federal agent dead and them in the cross-hairs of a pair of dirty cops. REVIEW: One...

Review: Skin Trade

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: After being forced to kill a gangster’s son during a firefight, a cop’s (Dolph Lundgren) wife and daughter are killed in retaliation. He manages to track the gangster (Ron Perlman) to Thailand, where he stumbles upon a...

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