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: Mississippi Grind (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Two down-on-their-luck gamblers (Ryan Reynolds & Ben Mendelsohn) hit the road, embarking on a tour of all the seediest casinos and private games the American South has to offer in an effort to change their luck and build a...

Review: Z for Zachariah (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: In an irradiated future, a lone survivor (Margot Robbie) finds herself torn between two surviving males, an intellectual (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who appeals to her emotionally, and a more rough-edged former miner (Chris Pine) who she’s drawn to physically. REVIEW:...

Review: Ten Thousand Saints (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: After the accidental death of his best friend, seventeen-year-old Jude (Asa Butterfield) is sent to live with his pot-dealing absentee father (Ethan Hawke). Lacking any kind of guidance, the drug-addled Jude falls under the sway of his late best...

Review: The Bronze (Sundance 2015)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Ten years after winning a bronze Olympic medal, washed-up gymnast Hope Ann Greggory (Melissa Rauch) lives in her small town with her adoring father (Gary Cole) getting by on her minor celebrity status. When her former coach dies, Greggory...

Review: The Duke of Burgundy

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Chiara D’Anna) and her older lover (Sidse Babett Knudsen) embark on a sadomasochistic relationship full of role-playing. But in the end, who is dominating who? REVIEW: I’m well aware that the quick plot description above probably...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Ewan McGregor

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of the late Rod Taylor, an actor who never quite achieved super-stardom. This week's subject has been more fortunate in his career, succeeding as a both a leading man and...

Review: Son of a Gun

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: JR (Brenton Thwaites) is a young offender doing a short stint in a supermax prison. After falling prey to a dangerous prison gang, he's offered protection by notorious inmate Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor) – with a catch. Upon his...

Review: Blackhat

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A hacker (Chris Hemsworth) serving a fifteen-year prison term is offered a chance at freedom if he joins a international task force looking to take down a cadre of cyber terrorists who caused a reactor meltdown in China. REVIEW:...

Binge Watchin’ TV Review: Black Mirror

Posted 12 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: Match

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Tobi (Patrick Stewart) – a renowned ballet instructor – agrees to be interviewed by a grad student (Carla Gugino) and her husband (Matthew Lillard) but as the afternoon goes on, skeletons are dragged out of the closet and Tobi...

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