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: Short Term 12

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Grace (Brie Larson), the young supervisor at a youth-care facility, struggles to help her young charges, as well as come to terms with her own abusive past, while trying to maintain a relationship with a co-worker (John Gallagher Jr.)....

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Daniel Day-Lewis

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of leading man/director/producer extraordinaire George Clooney, certainly one of the most consistent people in the biz. That said there are actors and there are actors and this week’s candidate is...

Review: The Grandmaster

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The story of Wing Chun Grandmaster Ip Man (Tony Leung), through his life of privilege in Foshan, to his days as a teacher in Hong Kong, where he students included a young Bruce Lee. REVIEW: Ip Man movies have...

Review: You’re Next

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A dysfunctional family, on a weekend retreat at their patriarch’s secluded summer home, is attacked by a gang of masked murders, bent on killing each and every person in the household. REVIEW: YOU’RE NEXT is a superbly crafted old-school...

Review: Paranoia

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: After entry-level employee Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is fired by his billionaire tech genius boss Nicholas Wyatt (Gary Oldman) he takes his revenge by taking his friends out for a wild night on the town, all charged to his...

Review: Kick-Ass 2

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: After inspiring a wave of new people to don costumes and fight crime, David Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) comes out of retirement, and once again becomes Kick-Ass. With Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) sidelined by a need to be a “normal...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: George Clooney

Posted 13 years ago

Chris With our first installment of The Good, The Bad & the Badass, we examined the career of Paul Thomas Anderson, a brilliant director and the perfect, uncompromising talent to kick off our new column. For the second installment, we...

Fantasia 2013 Wrap Up!

Posted 13 years ago

And so, another great year of the Fantasia Film Festival is in the books. Overall, it was another awesome year, filled with jam-packed, crazy screenings with ultra-enthusiastic audiences, laid back celebrity guests, and plenty of late-night drinking at the Irish...

Top Ten Baddest Breaking Bad moments

Posted 13 years ago

It’s finally here, the final season of BREAKING BAD. I’m of two minds about this. One, I’m really sad that the show is coming to an end, as it’s my pick for the greatest TV show of all time (yes,...

Review: The Battery (Fantasia)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two middling baseball players, Mickey (Adam Cronheim) and Ben (Jeremy Gardner) find themselves in the middle of a full-blown zombie apocalypse. They hide out in the forests and back roads of New England, trying to scrape by and avoid...

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