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: Annabelle

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A young family, reeling from a violent attack, start experiencing strange phenomena after they buy a creepy doll that seems to have a life of its own. REVIEW: THE CONJURING was one of those pleasant summer surprises, in that...

Movie Reviews

Review: Left Behind

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: When millions of people disappear in “The Rapture” those left behind have to deal with the knowledge that the world as they know it is over, and that the darkest period in human history is about to be upon...

Binge Watchin’ TV Review: The Wire

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: A Good Marriage

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Darcy (Joan Allen) has it all: three grown, successful kids, and an adoring husband (Anthony LaPaglia). When hubby’s away on a business trip, Darcy makes a shocking discovery: her husband is actually a notorious serial killer, who’s killed twelve...

Excl. Interview w/ The Guest director/writer Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett

Posted 12 years ago

If you read any of my reviews out of this year's Sundance, you'll know I went nuts for THE GUEST. A nifty throwback/tongue-in-cheek homage to eighties movies, THE GUEST is like THE TERMINATOR meets THE HITCHER by way of THE...

TV Review: The Strain, Season 1, Episode 12

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 12: Last Rites SUMMARY: Dutch Velders (Ruta Gedmintas) returns with a plan to allow Eph (Corey Stoll) to use an old emergency broadcast network to issue a city-wide warning about the Strigoi. Meanwhile, Setrakian (David Bradley) recalls an earlier,...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: David Fincher

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of fanboy idol Simon Pegg, This week’s subject is one of the most uncompromising, but brilliant, directors of our era, whose latest film is primed to be a mega hit…...

Review: The Equalizer + video review!

Posted 12 years ago

See Chris Bumbray's Video Review below! Originally reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is an ex-special operative now leading a quiet life as the manager of a home improvement store in Boston. When...

Exclusive 1:1 Interview:The Equalizer’s Chloe Grace Moretz

Posted 12 years ago

Since bursting onto the scene with her instantly iconic performance as Hit-Girl in KICK-ASS, Chloe Grace Moretz has defied expectations by taking-on a wide variety of roles, proving herself equally adept at pretty much every genre there is. Whether it’s...

Exclusive 1:1 Interview with The Equalizer’s Marton Czokas

Posted 12 years ago

Marton Czokas is one of those actors I’ve always found to be really underrated. I first remember seeing him in XXX as the Bond villain-style baddie. While the movie itself hasn’t aged well, Czokas was actually quite good and his...

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