Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,014 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: Blood Ties

Posted 12 years ago

BLOOD TIES was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2013 coverage. PLOT: In New York City, circa 1974, Chris (Clive Owen) is paroled after twelve-years in prison for murder. He’s met by his sister Marie (Lili Taylor) and brother...

Review: Veronica Mars

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Ten years after shaking off the dust of her Neptune, California hometown, Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) is forced to return home when her ex-flame, Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring) is accused of murdering his pop-star girlfriend. Reteaming with her intrepid...

TV Review: True Detective: Episode 8: Form & Void (SPOILERS)

Posted 12 years ago

Chris Check back every week following Sunday night’s airing of TRUE DETECTIVE for an episode rundown/ review. Here’s this week’s, but beware, SPOILERS ahead. Episode Synopsis: Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Hart (Woody Harrelson) finally catch up with the man responsible...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Wes Anderson

Posted 12 years ago

Last week we looked at the brilliant career of the late Harold Ramis, whose frequent collaborator, Bill Murray, is also a favourite of this week’s subject… Wes Anderson Wes Anderson is a genre unto himself. You either love his stuff...

Review: 300: Rise of an Empire

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: While the 300 Spartans face Persian ruler Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) at Thermopylae, Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) attempts to stop the Persian forces – led by Artemisia (Eva Green) – at sea with a rag-tag battalion of Athenian farmers...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Harold Ramis

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the topsy-turvy career of badass extraordinaire Liam Neeson. This week, we’re switching gears to examine the career of a late comedy-icon who often worked behind the scenes, but through it all remained...

TV Review: True Detective Episode 7: After You’ve Gone (SPOILERS)

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Check back every week following Sunday night’s airing of TRUE DETECTIVE for an episode rundown/ review. Here’s this week’s, but beware, SPOILERS ahead. Episode Synopsis: A reunited Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) resume their investigation into the...

Review: Stalingrad

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A rag-tag group of Russian soldiers fighting in the battle of Stalingrad, hole-up in a decimated apartment block where they find a young woman, Katya (Maria Smolnikova). Their interactions with her give the men back a sense of their...

Review: Non-Stop

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: An air marshal (Liam Neeson) on a routine flight gets a mysterious series of texts warning him that unless $150 million is transferred into a special account, every twenty minutes a passenger will be killed. Meanwhile, his bosses on...

Review: The Bag Man

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A hit man (John Cusack) holes up in a seedy motel while waiting for his boss (Robert De Niro) to come and claim a mysterious bag that he’s been asked to transport. REVIEW: Remember how – after the one-two...

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