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: Citizenfour

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A documentary about the early days of the Edward Snowden leaks, from the immediate effect on the journalists involved, to Snowden’s attempts to find asylum. REVIEW: Edward Snowden is a polarizing figure. To some he’s a whistleblower and a...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Stanley Kubrick

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of director Christopher Nolan, whose latest film, INTERSTELLAR, clearly was inspired by one of this week's subject's most famous films… Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick. Fifteen years after his death, the...

Review: Interstellar

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: In a future where Earth has become uninhabitable, a widowed ex-NASA pilot (Matthew McConaughey) is sent on a mission through a wormhole in order to find a new home for the species and save mankind from extinction. REVIEW: Christopher...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Christopher Nolan

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, the "master of suspense." This week's director is another maestro on the verge of opening his most ambitious film to date. Christopher Nolan There's...

Review: Nightcrawler

Posted 12 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) who ekes out a living as a petty thief, stumbles upon the cutthroat, dangerous, lucrative world of crime-scene videography for the evening news....

Review: Before I Go To Sleep

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Forty-year-old Christine (Nicole Kidman) awakens every morning with no memory of her life from her early twenties onward. Her husband, Ben (Colin Firth) tells her that she was in a car accident ten years ago that left her in...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Alfred Hitchcock

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look a the career of actor Keanu Reeves. This week, we're going to do something radically different and take a look way back at the career of arguably the most famous director of all...

Review: John Wick

Posted 12 years ago

Read JimmyO's review here! PLOT: John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a former hit man for the Russian mob who comes out of retirement after the son of his former boss brutally attacks his home and kills his dog. REVIEW: Keanu...

Review: Ouija

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A group of teens use a Ouija board to try and summon the spirit of their late friend only to find that they've summoned another presence entirely – one that's evil and won't rest until they're all dead. REVIEW:...

Stonehearst Asylum (Movie Review)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A recent med school grad (Jim Sturgess) in London circa 1900, is posted to a remote asylum where he’s bewitched by a seductive patient (Kate Beckinsale). However, he soon discovers there’s more to the asylum and its chief doctor...

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