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 ABCs of Death

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Twenty-six short films about death, each from a different director, and each corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. REVIEW: An omnibus film is always a dicey proposition, and if nothing else, THE ABCs OF DEATH deserves a whole...

Review: 21 and Over

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: On his 21st birthday, Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) is surprised by his long-estranged best friends from high-school, the uptight Casey (Skylar Astin) and the laid-back, easygoing Miller (Miles Teller). The two take him out for a night of drinking,...

Review: Phantom

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: At the height of the Cold War, the haunted captain (Ed Harris) of a Soviet submarine is sent on a top secret mission with a mysterious, hard-line KGB advisor (David Duchovny), who seems bent on starting WW3. REVIEW: PHANTOM...

Review: Stoker

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: When her father is killed on the eve of her eighteen birthday, India (Mia Wasikowska) is left in the care of her cold-blooded mother- Evie (Nicole Kidman). Their world is shaken when India’s long-absent uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) comes...

Review: Jack the Giant Slayer

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Jack (Nicholas Hoult), a naive young farmer, ends up with some magical beans- that soon sprout into a beanstalk that leads to a land populated by giants with a taste for human flesh. When his kingdom’s princess, Isabelle (Eleanor...

Review: Stoker

Posted 14 years ago

Review: Snitch

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After his son is caught in a DEA sting for trafficking drugs, John Matthews (Dwayne Johnson)- desperately cuts a deal with the federal prosecutor (Susan Sarandon), where he’ll go undercover setting up dealers, in exchange for his son’s release....

Review: A Good Day to Die Hard (Chris Bumbray’s take)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: John McClane (Bruce Willis) travels to Russia to see his estranged son- Jack (Jai Courtney) who’s been arrested for murder. Turns out, Jack is a CIA agent tasked with retrieving an infamous Russian political prisoner- Yuri (Sebastian Koch), with...

Review: Safe Haven

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Katie (Julianne Hough) is a young woman on the run, who lands in a sleepy North Carolina town, and tries to start a new life. She quickly falls for Alex (Josh Duhamel) – a widowed father of two- but...

Review: Beautiful Creatures

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) is about to re-enter high school after his mother’s tragic death. A sensitive soul, longing to escape his small town of Gatlin, his world is rocked by the arrival of Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) – the...

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