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: Ian McKellen

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career veteran badass extraordinaire, Kurt Russell. If one were to tally the box office results of an given performer, this week’s subject would be one of the highest grossing actors of...

Review: Godzilla

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Fifteen years after witnessing a nuclear catastrophe in Japan, a discredited nuclear physicist (Bryan Cranston) witnesses – along with his solider son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) – the hatching of a giant monster which threatens to wipe out all human...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Kurt Russell

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of the late Bob Hoskins, an actor many of us grew up with through his celebrated turn in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. This week's actor is another icon of the...

TV Review: Penny Dreadful Season 1, Episode 1

Posted 12 years ago

Episode 1: Night Work SUMMARY: Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) – a gunslinging American travelling with a Wild West show in 19th century London, is hired by the mysterious Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) and Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) to help them...

Review: The Double

Posted 12 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran as part of our TIFF 2013 coverage. PLOT: Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) is a mid-level office drone who’s horrified to discover that he has an exact doppelganger that’s everything he’s not- charming, sophisticated and confident. Soon...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Bob Hoskins

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of director of the great Gene Hackman. This week, we turn our focus to another great character actor, who sadly passed away this week… Bob Hoskins I was sad to...

Review: God’s Pocket

Posted 12 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2014 coverage. PLOT: Mickey (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a small-time schemer married to the beautiful Jeannie (Christina Hendricks) and living in the working class neighbourhood of God’s Pocket. When his...

Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) aka Spider-Man is torn between his duty to the city of New York and his love for his high school sweetheart, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). When an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) re-emerges with...

Review: The Protector 2

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Country-boy Kham's (Tony Jaa) beloved elephant Khon is once again kidnapped. Rather than by a cartel of poachers, this time his disappearance is engineered by a gangster (RZA) somehow connected to a terrorist plot to interrupt peace talks at...

The Good, the Bad & the Badass: Gene Hackman

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of director William Friedkin, whose film – THE FRENCH CONNECTION – marked the arrival of this week’s legend as one of the definitive actors of the last forty years. Gene...

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