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: Liam Neeson

Posted 13 years ago

Last week, we took a look at the career of resurgent leading man Kevin Costner. His latest, 3 DAYS TO KILL, seems to be an attempt to turn him into an older action hero in the mold of this week’s...

TV Review: True Detective: Episode 6: Haunted Houses (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: Gilbough (Michael Potts) and Papania (Tory Kittles) bring in Maggie (Michelle Monaghan) to give...

Review: Pompeii

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Milo (Kit Harington) – a young Celtic gladiator enslaved in the doomed city of Pompeii – falls in love with the daughter (Emily Browning) of a wealthy merchant, who happens to be betrothed to bloodthirsty Roman Senator Colvis (Kiefer...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Kevin Costner

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the brilliant but tragically short career of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. This week’s subject is an actor whose career has had many ups and downs – going from stratospheric heights to...

TV Review: True Detective: Episode 5: The Secret Fear of All Life (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: Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Hart (Woody Harrelson) track down the elusive Reggie Ledoux, and...

Review: Winter’s Tale

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: In 1916 New York City, Peter Lake (Colin Farrell) is an expert thief, on the run from the notorious Short Tails gang, led by the diabolical Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe) who’s somehow connected to Lucifer himself and determined to...

Review: Adult World

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Amy (Emma Roberts) is a recent college grad. An English major focused on writing poetry, she fully expects to take the literary world by storm, but her lack of talent and crushing student debt forces her to take a...

Review: RoboCop

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: After an attempt on his life, a critically-wounded Detroit policeman, Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), is revived by Omnicorp, a multi-national conglomerate, that turns him into a $2.7 billion cyborg cop. Once he’s back on the streets of Detroit, Murphy...

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The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Posted 13 years ago

Shortly after I completed last week’s column on Bill Murray, the sad news of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s passing started to make the news. In the talk-back section of the Murray column, a reader wrote that it was unfortunate Hoffman...

TV Review: True Detective: Episode 4: Who Goes There (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: Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) continue their search for Dora Lange’s ex-boyfriend...

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