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: Wild

Posted 12 years ago

This review originally ran as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A young woman (Reese Witherspoon) hits the Pacific Crest Trail after suffering through a messy divorce and the death of her mother (Laura Dern). REVIEW: After a rough...

Review: Dying of the Light

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A veteran CIA agent (Nicolas Cage) discovers that he’s suffering from an advanced case of dementia. With only a short amount of time left before his eventual decline, he becomes obsessed with tracking down the terrorist mastermind who once...

The Good, The Bad & the Badass: Mickey Rourke

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of the late, great Mike Nichols. This week, we turn our gaze to an actor who's hard his share of ups and downs, but it still capable of great work...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Mike Nichols

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of former James Bond, Roger Moore. This week's subject, sadly, passed away earlier this week… Mike Nichols When the news broke earlier this week that director Mike Nichols had...

Review: Bad Turn Worse

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Three Texas teens are coerced into ripping off a local syndicate when one of them foolishly steals $20,000 from a psychotic local gangster (Mark Pellegrino). REVIEW: While movies like BOYHOOD, BIRDMAN or the latest Marvel blockbusters will probably get...

Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Fresh from her rescue from the latest deadly edition of “The Hunger Games” Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself the face of District 13’s armed resistance to President Snow’s (Donald Sutherland) reign. With the help of former games designer...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Roger Moore

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, one of the most critically acclaimed directors in cinema history. This week’s subject was active at roughly the same time as Kubrick (albeit in front...

Review: Rosewater

Posted 12 years ago

ROSEWATER was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: The true story of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahri (Gael Garcia Bernal) who, while covering the 2009 presidential election in Iran, was imprisoned for five months, with the government...

Binge Watchin’ TV Review: FX’s The Americans

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: Dumb and Dumber To

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Older but not wiser, Lloyd (Jim Carrey) and Harry (Jeff Daniels) hit the road in search of Harry’s long-lost daughter Penny (Rachel Melvin), who they hope will be able to give him a kidney in order to save his...

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