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: August: Osage County

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: After their family patriarch goes missing, the estranged Weston family reunites at the home of matriarch Violet (Meryl Streep)- a cantankerous woman with an acid tongue. Her daughters, Barbara (Julia Roberts), Karen (Juliette Lewis) and Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) all...

Review: Grudge Match

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two former boxing champs- Henry “Razor” Sharp (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy “The Kid” McDonnen (Robert De Niro) – and lifelong rivals reunite in the ring thirty years after their last fight to settle old scores. REVIEW: I’m not going...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Martin Scorsese

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week we took a look at the career of legendary funnyman Will Ferrell to coincide with the release of ANCHORMAN 2. This week, in anticipation of THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, we look at the incredible career of...

Top 10 Movies of 2013 (Chris Bumbray)

Posted 13 years ago

And so another year is in the books! It can’t be denied that 2013 started off badly . The first two months of the year were a wasteland of crap, with us being deluged by some truly horrendous films like...

Review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is a dreamer who yearns to escape his hum-drum existence, and fantasizes about dating his pretty Life Magazine co-worker, Cheryl (Kristen Wiig). When the print edition of Life Magazine is scuttled, and the final issue’s...

Review: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The life and times of Nelson Mandela (Idris Elba)- from his early years as a lawyer in South Africa, to his involvement with the ANC (African National Congress) through his twenty-seven years in prison, to his eventual release and...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Will Ferrell

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the sophisticated body of work of directing duo extraordinaire, The Coen Brothers. This week, we look at a superstar who’s among the hardest working performers of his day, and whose work on...

Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Posted 13 years ago

Read JimmyO's review here! PLOT: Picking up where the first film left off, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his dwarf companions, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitrage) continue their journey to Erebor to face Smaug the dragon (voiced by Benedict...

Review: American Hustle

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Irving Rosenfield (Christian Bale) is a small-time con artist, scamming a few thousand here and there from gullible marks. When he’s busted- along with his beautiful accomplice and lover (Amy Adams) by FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) the...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: The Coen Bros.

Posted 13 years ago

Chris After looking at the career of actor Christian Bale last week, in anticipation of OUT OF THE FURNACE, this week we go back behind the camera to look at the careers of arguably the most famous family duo in...

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