Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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!

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Steve McQueen

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of legendary tough guy Gary Oldman. Great as he is, when it comes to being tough, this week’s retro actor could teach everyone in Hollywood a thing or two. Steve...

Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Posted 12 years ago

See JimmyO's video review here! PLOT: Ten years after the collapse of human civilization, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his ape brethren have taken to the forests, where they live an idyllic life and are establishing themselves as the new keepers...

Review: Rage

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: An ex-gangster (Nicolas Cage) goes for revenge after his teenage daughter is murdered. REVIEW: RAGE – aka TOKAREV, is a real bummer. After his awards-calibre performance in JOE, Nicolas Cage seemed prime for a comeback, but a recent slew...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Gary Oldman

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of Aussie actor Eric Bana, who first made a splash playing one of the screen's great psychopaths in CHOPPER. This week's guy knows a thing or two about that…. Gary...

Review: Deliver Us From Evil

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A lapsed-Catholic NYPD officer (Eric Bana) struggles with his faith upon discovering a grisly series of events that a rogue priest (Edgar Ramirez) says are related to demonic possession. REVIEW: DELIVER US FROM EVIL is another one of those...

Exclusive Interview: Former MPAA Raters Barry Freeman & Howard Fridkin

Posted 12 years ago

For many of us on the outside looking in, the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) ratings system is mystifying. How can a movie like THE KING’S SPEECH – with no objectionable content other than a moderate amount of profanity...

TV Review: Penny Dreadful: Season 1, Episode 8

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 8: Grand Guignol SUMMARY: A newly-well Vanessa (Eva Green) becomes convinced that Sir Malcolm’s (Timothy Dalton) daughter Mina is somehow connected to the Grand Guignol theater, where Caliban (Rory Kinnear) works as a stagehand. REVIEW: Fresh from last week’s...

Review: Begin Again

Posted 12 years ago

This review originally ran as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2013 coverage under it's original title CAN A SONG SAVE YOUR LIFE. PLOT: A down-on-his-luck music exec (Mark Ruffalo) discovers a beautiful songwriter (Keira Knightley) who's nursing a broken heart. They...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Eric Bana

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of Christopher Walken, a legendary figure to be sure. This week's subject is probably a less obvious candidate for this column, but hopefully after reading this article you'll feel he's...

Review: Drive Hard

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A former race-car driver (Thomas Jane) turned driving instructor in Australia has the misfortune to have a lesson scheduled with a mysterious fellow-American (John Cusack), who coerces him into being his getaway driver following a bank robbery REVIEW: When...

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