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: Skyfall

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After being badly wounded on an assignment and presumed dead, James Bond (Daniel Craig) is living a quiet life in exile- spending most of his time hanging out on the beach, sleeping with the local ladies, and drinking himself...

Review: The Man With the Iron Fists

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: In feudal China, a humble blacksmith (RZA) is caught in a battle for power between a virtuous clan leader (Rick Yune) and his evil second-in-command (Byron Mann). Meanwhile, a mysterious English solider of fortune, Jack (Russell Crowe) arrives at...

The Ten Spot: Best Bond Baddies!

Posted 14 years ago

Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him. Chris This line, oh so typical of the James Bond villains, occurs early in MOONRAKER, far from one of the better Bonds, and spoken by a fairly tepid villain,...

Review: Wreck-It Ralph

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: For thirty years, Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly)has been one of the most popular video game villains in the arcade. Thing is- the sensitive Ralph is tired of being taken for granted by the game’s hero- Fix-It Felix (Jack...

Review: This Must Be The Place

Posted 14 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran January 24th as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage. PLOT: When his father dies, a washed-up eighties pop star named Cheyenne (Sean Penn) leaves his Dublin estate, and his thoughtful wife (Frances McDormand) to travel...

Review: The Details

Posted 14 years ago

NOTE: THE DETAILS was originally reviewed was part of our Sundance 2011 coverage. PLOT: Jeff (Tobey Maguire), and Neely (Elizabeth Banks) are a pair of upwardly mobile suburbanites, keen to do some remodeling on their home. When a family of...

Review: Flight

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: An airline pilot, Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is hailed as a hero when he saves a plane-load of passengers during a flight gone terribly wrong. The only problem, Whip is a hardcore alcoholic and habitual drug user- who was...

Halloween mini-reviews! The Shining, The Exorcist, The Omen and more!

Posted 14 years ago

October means Halloween is just around the corner, and here at Arrow in the Head, in honor of this ghoulish month of scares, every Friday leading up to Halloween, I’ll be posting mini-reviews of a few of my favorite horror...

Review: Cloud Atlas

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A multi-narrative epic, following the evolution of a group of souls throughout hundreds of years- from the adventures of a 19th century slave trader, to two dueling composers in pre-WW2 Britain, to a journalist fighting a corrupt corporation in...

Review: Chasing Mavericks

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Jay Moriarity (Jonny Weston)- who, as a teenager, was determined to conquer the Northern California Maverick waves- widely considered to be among the world’s deadliest surf spots. He’s trained by his Maverick-surfing neighbor, Frosty (Gerard...

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