Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,015 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: The Internship

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two fast talking salesmen (Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson) find themselves out of work. With no prospects and nowhere to turn, they talk their way into a summer internship with Google in the hopes of landing a permanent position....

Review: Arrested Development (Season 4 on Netflix)

Posted 13 years ago

NOTE: As most of you already know, this is Season 4 of this series, although the last season ended in 2006. All 15 episodes of this season are currently available to view streaming online via Netflix. PLOT: The continuing misadventures...

Review: Now You See Me

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Four middling magicians (Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, & Dave Franco) are brought together by a mysterious benefactor. Now calling themselves The Four Horsemen, they’re brought to the attention of Interpol and the FBI when, using magic, they...

Review: After Earth

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: In a future where mankind has had to abandon Earth and has found a new home on a colony called Nova Prime, humanity’s greatest warrior, Cypher Raige (Will Smith) has just come back from a long tour of duty...

Review: The East

Posted 13 years ago

THE EAST was originally reviewed as part of JoBlo.com’s 2013 Sundance coverage. PLOT: An undercover operative (Britt Marling) for a private security group is sent to infiltrate a radical cell of activist extremists- called “The East”. As she gets deeper...

Top 10 Favorite episodes of Arrested Development

Posted 13 years ago

Chances are, if you clicked on this link you’re a huge ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT fan. Also likely, you’re wondering, “Chris- a top 10? Shouldn’t it be a top 53?” Indeed, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT has too many gems to boil the series down...

Review: The Hangover Part III

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two years after their wild night in Bangkok, the Wolfpack is back. Alan (Zach Galifianakis) has been off his meds for six months and is running wild. After an intervention, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin...

Review: Star Trek Into Darkness (Chris Bumbray’s take)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The crew of the U.S.S Enterprise is sent on a dangerous mission to eliminate rogue Starfleet officer John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose latest acts of terror have left thousands dead, and might plunge the federation into a war with...

Review: The English Teacher

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A lonely, middle-aged high school English teacher (Julianne Moore) has her quiet existence shaken up by the return of a former pupil (Michael Angarano) turned playwright, whose Magnum opus is about to be performed by the school’s drama club....

Review: Peeples

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Eager to meet his girlfriend Grace’s (Kerry Washington) family, Wade (Craig Robinson) shows up uninvited at a family retreat. He’s shocked to discover that not only has Grace’s family never heard of him, but that her superior court judge...

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