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: Oblivion (Chris Bumbray’s take)

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: In 2077, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable after a long war with an alien scavenger race. Jack (Tom Cruise) is a technician, left behind to service robot drones that harvest the planet’s remaining resources. He lives in tower thousands...

The Ten Spot: Our Favorite Tom Cruise Performances

Posted 13 years ago

This weekend sees the release of Tom Cruise’s latest extravaganza, OBLIVION, a film many of us have been looking forward to ever since that awesome trailer came out in December. Just a few short months ago, Cruise’s JACK REACHER- which...

Movie Reviews

Review: Scary Movie 5

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Spoofing the movie MAMA, a young couple, Dan (Simon Rex) and Jody (Ashley Tisdale), gets custody of Dan’s late brother’s kids, who are haunted by a ghostly spectre. REVIEW: Every once in a while a movie comes along that’s...

Review: 42

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Jackie Robinson’s (Chadwick Boseman) first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, where- with the help of owner Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) – he became the first African-American player to cross the color line. REVIEW: Jackie Robinson’s...

Review: It’s a Disaster

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A group of friends (Rachel Boston, America Ferrera, Julia Stiles, David Cross, Jeff Grace, Erinn Hayes, Kevin M. Brennan, & Blaise Miller) meeting for their monthly couples brunch discover that a series of dirty bombs have been set off...

Review: Simon Killer

Posted 13 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage. PLOT: Reeling from a bad breakup, a recent college grad, Simon (Brady Corbet) heads to Paris, where he hooks up with a prostitute (Mati Diop), who takes him in....

Review: Trance

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: An art gallery auctioneer, Simon (James McAvoy) becomes the inside man on an art-heist. After being hit on the head during the job, he forgets where he stashed the painting, and his partners, led by Franck (Vincent Cassel) take...

Review: Upstream Color

Posted 13 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage. PLOT: Kris (Amy Seimetz) is an ambitious exec who, after a chance encounter at a nightclub, wakes up after several days to find she’s lost her job, along with...

Review: Evil Dead

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A group of friends spending the weekend at a remote cabin unwittingly awaken a demonic spirit, when one of them reads from the Necronomicon- aka, the book of the dead. The demonic force begins taking over their bodies- one...

Review: The Host

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: In a future where humanity has been almost entirely eliminated by an alien species that takes over their bodies, one of the few remaining survivors- Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) is captured and implanted with an alien named Wanderer. However, Melanie...

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