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: Escape Plan

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) is a master escape artist, who gets paid millions to make sure the country's maximum security prisons are escape-proof by spending time in each as an inmate. He meets his match when he's sent to...

Review: 12 Years a Slave

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The devastating true story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man who, in 1853, was kidnapped from his home in Washington D.C, and sold into slavery in the south. REVIEW: At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere...

Review: Carrie

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz) is an outcast at her high school, where she’s mercilessly bullied by local queen bee Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday). Feeling pity for her, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde) convinces her nice-guy jock boyfriend (Ansel Elgort)...

Review: The Fifth Estate

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The story of Wiki-Leaks, from it’s growth under founder/editor-in-chief Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) to it’s eventual publication of a massive amount of classified data leaked by soldier Bradley Manning. REVIEW: The highest praise...

Review: All Is Lost

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A man (Robert Redford) finds himself lost at sea and struggles to survive against the elements. REVIEW: ALL IS LOST is a fascinating contrast to director J.C Chandor’s last movie, MARGIN CALL. That was a film that was wholly...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Sylvester Stallone

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, to celebrate the release of CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, we took a look at the career of actor-extraordinaire Tom Hanks. This week, another icon’s got a big movie coming out..two actually, with Arnold Schwarzenegger (a future Good Bad Badass...

Review: Captain Phillips

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) who-as the captain of the merchant marine vessel the Maersk Alabama- was taken hostage by Somali Pirates. REVIEW: CAPTAIN PHILLIPS is vintage Tom Hanks. By that I mean that CAPTAIN PHILLIPS...

The Good, The Bad and the Badass: Tom Hanks

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took at look at the career of big-screen alpha-male Sean Connery. While nowhere near the macho tough guy Connery is, this week’s subject is just as much of an icon in his own way, with a...

Review: Machete Kills

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Machete (Danny Trejo) is back and this time he’s on a mission for the U.S President (Charlie Sheen…er…Carlos Estevez- embracing his gonzo rep) to kidnap a revolutionary- Mendez The Madman (Demian Bichir) who’s got a missile aimed at Washington...

Review: Runner Runner

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: After losing his life savings playing online poker, Princeton student Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) flies to Costa Rica to confront online gaming entrepreneur Ivan Block (Ben Affleck) with proof that his games are crooked. Rather than fly off-the-handle, Ivan...

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