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: Furious 7

Posted 11 years ago

CHECK OUT JIMMYO's VIDEO REVIEW HERE!!! PLOT: Dominic Torretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) and the rest of their crew are forced into international intrigue when they find themselves targeted by Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) – the...

TV Review: Better Call Saul: Episode 9: Pimento (Spoilers)

Posted 11 years ago

Chris This recap/review of Better Call Saul is written with the expectation that everyone who reads this and comments below will have seen the episode already. Thus, if you’ve yet to see the episode in question, DO NOT GO ANY...

Review: Last Knights

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A group of knights, led by the noble Raiden (Clive Owen) avenge their master’s (Morgan Freeman) disgrace as the hands of a tyrant (Aksel Hennie). REVIEW: Well, this is a weird one. You’d think that a large-scale fantasy epic...

The Good, The Bad and The Badass: Vin Diesel

Posted 11 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of master comedian Steve Martin. This week's badass is a whole new ballgame, being the star of one of the most strangely enduring franchises of the last twenty years. Vin...

Review: Woman in Gold

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An elderly holocaust survivor (Helen Mirren) returns to her native Austria to reclaim Gustav Klimt’s famous ‘woman in gold’, a priceless piece of art that was stolen from her family by the Nazis. With the painting being...

Review: Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A painfully shy Japanese woman named Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi) finds an old VHS copy of FARGO and becomes convinced that a real bag-full of money is hidden somewhere in Fargo, North Dakota. REVIEW: KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER is...

Review: Get Hard

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A white-collar businessman (Will Ferrell) is found guilty of fraud and sentenced to ten years in a super-max prison. Faced with the prospect of jail-house rape, he hires the only black person he knows – a meek family man...

Review: Serena

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A timber baron (Bradley Cooper) marries Serena (Jennifer Lawrence), a strong-willed, enigmatic young woman who proves to be more than his match, and helps him turn his depression era business into an empire. REVIEW: SERENA is one of the...

Review: While We’re Young

Posted 11 years ago

This title was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A middle-aged documentarian (Ben Stiller) and his producer wife (Naomi Watts) make friends with a young couple (Adam Driver & Amanda Seyfried) although the generation...