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: A Most Wanted Man (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A German spy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) operating out of Hamburg, uses a Chechen refuge (Grigoriy Dobrygin) as a pawn to nab a Muslim humanitarian with suspected ties to Al-Qaeda. REVIEW: A MOST WANTED MAN comes along at a time...

Review: Locke (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy)- a site manager on the eve of a multimillion dollar construction project- makes a fateful decision and skips out on his job to hop the M6 in his BMW in a race against time to...

Review: Whiplash (Sundance 2014)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A young drummer (Miles Teller) toils under a ruthless instructor (J.K. Simmons) in the pursuit of ultimate perfection in his music. REVIEW: One of the best things about attending a festival like Sundance is that you get to go...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Matthew McConaughey

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we switched things up and explored the career of uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer. This week, we put our focus back on the talent in front of the camera, with a re-evaluation of an actor many of us had...

TV Review: True Detective (PILOT)

Posted 13 years ago

Chris PLOT: Seventeen years after they apparently solved a grisly ritual-style killing of a young prostitute, former detectives Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) are interviewed about their investigation by a new set of detectives working on...

Sundance 2014 Preview

Posted 13 years ago

I can’t believe it, but from January 16th to the 25th, I’ll be back at the Sundance Film Festival for my fifth year in a row! I really can’t explain how fortunate I feel to be sent back to cover...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Jerry Bruckheimer

Posted 13 years ago

Chris In last week’s column, we took a look at the career of leading-lady extraordinaire Meryl Streep. Typically the star of- let’s say “classy” fare, Streep and this week’s subject haven’t had the chance to work together (yet) but his...

Review: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two teens- Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Arturo (Richard Cabral)- are playing with their new video camera when one of their neighbors is apparently murdered by one of their classmates. When they investigate the death, they stumble upon a plot...

The JoBlo.com 2014 Movie Preview!

Posted 13 years ago

2014 is shaping up to be another killer year at the box office. Over the next twelve months we can expect two Marvel Studios epics, a huge X-Men sequel that brings original director Bryan Singer back into the fold, another...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Meryl Streep

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week we took a look at the incredible career of master director Martin Scorsese, easily one of the greatest filmmakers that’s ever lived. This week’s subject is another icon whose career in front of the camera has spanned...

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