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: Sightseers

Posted 13 years ago

SIGHTSEERS was originally reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's 2012 TIFF coverage. PLOT: Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe) are a somewhat socially inept couple, who decide to take a cross-country trip in Chris' caravan. Tina soon realizes that Chris...

Review: The Great Gatsby

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), a bond trader in New York during the roaring twenties, rents a house on the outskirts of town. His next door neighbor, the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) is infamous for his wild parties,...

Review: No One Lives

Posted 13 years ago

NO ONE LIVES was originally reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2012 coverage. PLOT: A vicious gang of home invaders kidnap a motorist (Luke Evans), only to have the tables turned on them by their victim, who quickly reveals...

Review: The Arrested Development Documentary Project

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: An in-depth, behind the scenes look at the cult TV series ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, from it’s creation, original run on Fox, cancellation, and eventual rebirth as a cult hit. REVIEW: I’m absolutely obsessed with ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, but like many of...

Review: Iron Man 3 (Chris Bumbray’s take)

Posted 13 years ago

(click here to read JimmyO's review) PLOT: Not long after helping save the world as part of The Avengers, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has retreated to his mansion, obsessively building new Iron Man suits, while ignoring his beloved Pepper...

The Ten Spot: Favorite Superhero Movies

Posted 13 years ago

With IRON MAN 3 due to open in thousands of movie theaters all over North America by the end of the week (my review will be up around Thursday), we here at JoBlo.com figured it would be a great time...

Review: The Big Wedding

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A dysfunctional family, which includes two divorced parents (Robert De Niro & Diane Keaton), his new girlfriend/her ex-best friend (Susan Sarandon), their two grown-up kids (Katherine Heigl & Topher Grace), and an adopted son (Ben Barnes) reunite for a...

Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A young Pakistani man, Changez (Riz Ahmed), leaves his family in Lahore to study business at Princeton. From there, he graduates to a large Wall Street firm, and seems to have it all, including an admiring boss (Kiefer Sutherland),...

JoBlo.com’s 2013 Summer Movie Preview!

Posted 13 years ago

Some people think the summer movie season kicked off last weekend with the opening of OBLIVION, but for those of us that track the summer box office like March Madness, it only really starts with the first weekend in May,...

Review: The Colony

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: After a new ice age wreaks havoc on the earth, small pockets of survivors take shelter underground. One such group, led by the compassionate Briggs (Lawrence Fishburne) is faced by factions within, led by the sadistic Mason (Bill Paxton)...

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