Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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: Dragon (aka Wu Xia)

Posted 14 years ago

DRAGON/WU XIA was originally reviewed as part of Arrow in the Head’s Fantasia 2012 coverage. PLOT: Liu Jin-xi (Donnie Yen) is a pillar of his community. Having mysteriously shown up ten years ago, he fell in love with and married...

Review: Killing Them Softly

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Two lowlife hoods (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) are hired to knock off Markie Trattman’s (Ray Liotta) high-stakes underground casino. Having previously knocked off one of his own games and gotten a pass, Markie knows his days are numbered,...

Review: This is 40

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) have it all- or so it seems. They live in a gorgeous, perhaps too extravagant home, they have two great daughters (Maude & Iris Apatow) and jobs that they love- Pete running...

Review: Hitchcock

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Fresh off the success of NORTH BY NORTHWEST, Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins)- now sixty years old, is afraid his best years may be behind him. Anxious to push himself further than he’s ever gone before, he options the novel...

Review: Life of Pi

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The story of Pi (Suraj Sharma)- a sixteen year-old Indian boy, who survives a shipwreck, and finds himself adrift on a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger- named Richard Parker. Not only does Pi have to try and survive on...

Review: Breaking Dawn (Part 2)

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: THE TWILIGHT SAGA comes to a merciful end with this, the conclusion to BREAKING DAWN. After being turned into a vampire while giving birth to Renesmee, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) find themselves forced into a showdown...

Review: Anna Karenina

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A nineteenth-century Russian socialite, Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley), becomes a pariah when she leaves her husband- Alexei (Jude Law) for a dashing young soldier- Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson). REVIEW: When I heard Joe Wright was directing this, the upteenth...

Review: Silver Linings Playbook

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Against doctor’s orders, Pat (Bradley Cooper) a former high school teacher who was committed after a violent incident with his estranged wife, is bailed out the mental hospital by his mother Dolores (Jacki Weaver). She brings him home to...

Review: Lincoln

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Near the start of his second term in office- and in the forth bloody year of the Civil War, president Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) fights to abolish slavery by putting forth an amendment in the House of Representatives- which...

The Ten Spot: Best Bond Girls!

Posted 14 years ago

As much as I love SKYFALL, (and I LOOOOVE it), the one area it admittedly comes up short in is the Bond girl area. Like QUANTUM OF SOLACE, there’s no real love interest for Bond, other than a minor tryst...

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