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: Fun Size

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: High school senior Wren (Victoria Justice) can’t believe her luck when the school’s resident stud invites her to his Halloween bash. Alas, her plans go awry when her cougar mother- Joy (Chelsea Handler) leaves her in charge of her...

Halloween mini-reviews! The Hunger, The Lost Boys, Dawn of the Dead 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: Paranormal Activity 4

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A young girl, Alex (Kathryn Newton) is convinced that the young boy her family has taken-in has brought some kind of otherworldly presence to their home- with it’s target being her adopted younger brother, Wyatt. REVIEW: Halloween is just...

Review: The Sessions

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Mark O’Brien (John Hawke) is a thirty-eight year old writer-poet who, due to polio, is essentially paralyzed from the neck down, and spends most of his time in an iron lung. Due to his disability, he’s a virgin, but...

Review: Alex Cross

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) is a brilliant Detroit homicide detective, juggling the demands of his job with his home life. When he foils the murderous plans of a sociopath assassin (Matthew Fox)- who’ s targeting the employees of a...

Halloween! Psycho! Nightmare on Elm Street! Halloween! We look at slashers!

Posted 14 years ago

Review: Sinister

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A true-crime writer (Ethan Hawke) moves his family into a home which was the site of a brutal family slaying several years earlier. While searching his new home, he not only discovers home movie footage of the crime, but...

Review: Here Comes the Boom

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A bored high school biology teacher (Kevin James) takes up MMA to raise money in order to save the job of his school’s beloved music teacher (Henry Winkler). Initially an underdog, he soon finds his footing, and not only...

Review: Smashed

Posted 14 years ago

NOTE: SMASHED was reviewed as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage in January. PLOT: Kate (Mary Elizabeth-Winstead) and Charlie (Aaron Paul), are young, in love, and happily married. They’re also two raging alcoholics- but you couldn’t tell either that they...