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: Last Days on Mars

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A group of astronauts- part of the first manned expedition to Mars- are exposed to a bacteria that turns its victims into crazed zombie-like creatures. REVIEW: Considering the pedigreed cast and the premise (zombies on Mars) it’s a bit...

Review: Out of the Furnace

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: After getting out of prison, a blue-collar Rust Belt working man, Russell Baze (Christian Bale), returns home to discover that his younger brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) has become involved with a bare-knuckle boxing ring run by a local gangster...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Christian Bale

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of master director Spike Lee, one of the most controversial directors of his time. Switching gears, our subject this week makes his living on the other side of the camera,...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Spike Lee

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of master director Michael Mann, a guy whose style helped define the modern urban action film. This week, we look at another prolific filmmaker who’s had his share of controversy...

Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Posted 13 years ago

Read JimmyO's review here! PLOT: Fresh from their win at the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are now darlings of the capital. But, the tyrannical President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is not pleased with...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Michael Mann

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of internationally acclaimed action icon Chow Yun-Fat. While Chow’s known mostly for his work with John Woo, he’d no doubt be right at home in a movie directed by this...

Review: The Best Man Holiday

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Years after the events of the first film, Harper (Taye Diggs) is once again a struggling writer, trying to make ends meet while caring for his fragile, pregnant wife (Sanaa Lathan). He thinks he has it made when his...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Chow Yun-Fat

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of actor extraordinaire Anthony Hopkins, truly one of the most noteworthy international leading men of our time. This week’s subject is a man who may be limited to a cult...

Review: The Book Thief

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: In Germany during the Second World War, young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse), the daughter of a communist who’s on the run from the Nazis, is sent to live with a middle-aged couple- Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) Hubermann-...

Review: Thor: The Dark World

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: With Loki (Tom Hiddleston) safely locked away in the dungeons of Asgard, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and his warrior comrades Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander), Volstagg (Ray Stevenson), Fendral (Zachary Levi) and Hogun (Tadanobu Asano) can set about uniting the nine...

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