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: Welcome To the Punch

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) is a young cop who’s badly wounded in a showdown with master thief Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong). Years later, Sternwood, who’s living in exile, is forced to come back to Britain when his son is...

Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: With COBRA agent Zartan now posing as the US president (Jonathan Pryce), the G.I Joe’s are ambushed and mostly wiped out. The survivors of the attack, Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Flint (D.J Cotrona) and Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) are joined...

The Top Ten Most Batshit Crazy Performances

Posted 13 years ago

This weekend, Harmony Korine’s SPRING BREAKERS (READ MY REVIEW) is opening wide in theaters across North America. A weird, crazy ride into the heart of American spring break culture, the weirdest thing about it is not the drug-abusing, sociopath college...

Review: On The Road

Posted 13 years ago

ON THE ROAD was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2012 coverage. PLOT: The adventures of Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young writer on a cross-country odyssey, who hooks up with an enigmatic drifter named Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund)....

Review: Olympus Has Fallen

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A demoted secret service agent, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is the nation’s only hope when Washington D.C is attacked by North Korean terrorists, who seize the White House and the president (Aaron Eckhart). REVIEW: Remember the nineties? Back then,...

Review: Admission

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Portia (Tina Fey) is a Princeton admissions officer with a well-ordered, quiet life. However, this peaceful- if unfulfilling existence is thrown into disarray when John (Paul Rudd)- a teacher at an alternative high school, walks into her life with...

Review: Spring Breakers

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Four bored college girls (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, & Rachel Korine) rob a fast food restaurant on a whim, and use the money to go on spring break in Florida. While indulging in a non-stop orgy of...

Review: The Call

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) is a veteran 911 dispatch operator, reeling from an incident where she was unable to save a girl from the clutches of a serial killer. Six months later, Jordan gets a call from Casey (Abigail...

Review: Dead Man Down

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Victor (Colin Farrell) is part of gangster kingpin Alphonse Hoyt’s (Terrence Howard) crew. Handy with a gun, and smart enough to keep his mouth shut most of the time, he’s risen through the ranks quickly. But- when Beatrice (Noomi...

Review: Oz The Great and Powerful

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A small-time con-man (James Franco) who ekes out a living conning audiences at a travelling carnival, is swept off to the magical land of Oz after making a hasty getaway in a hot air balloon. He quickly fools people...

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