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: Prometheus

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: When scientists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a series of ancient cave paintings that seem to be an interstellar map, they’re whisked away on a trillion-dollar journey aboard the spaceship Prometheus, to discover what...

Review: Piranha 3DD

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The mutated, man-eating piranhas are back, and this time- they’re munching on the visitors to a water-park owned by Chet (David Koechner), and his step-daughter Maddy (Danielle Panabaker). REVIEW: “Welcome to rock bottom.” So says David Hasselhoff towards the...

Review: The Loved Ones

Posted 14 years ago

Plot: Brent (Xavier Samuel) is a teenager who’s been badly shaken by the recent death of his father. A shell of his former self, and prone to self abuse, the one bright spot in his life is his lovely girlfriend,...

Review: Snow White and the Huntsman

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: When her father the king is murdered by his new wife, Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron), Snow White (Kristen Stewart) is imprisoned, until the day she comes of age, when the evil queen will devour her heart in order to...

Review: Cosmopolis

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) – a billionaire asset manager, travels in his high-tech stretch limo across NYC to get a haircut. Along the way, he confers with various employees, an art dealer (Juliette Binoche), a financial guru (Samantha Morton),...

Review: Virginia

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Virginia (Jennifer Connelly) is an unstable woman, caught in a decades-long affair with the local sheriff (Ed Harris)- a hardcore Mormon, which gets complicated once her sixteen-year-old son (Harrison Gilbertston) falls for the sheriff’s daughter (Emma Roberts). REVIEW: VIRGINIA...

Review: Indie Game: The Movie

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Charting the rise of independent video game design, this documentary follows the production of three indie games; the break-out hit “Braid” by Jonathan Blow, it’s potential successor “Super Meat Boy” by the underdog team of Edmund McMillen and Tommy...

Review: Men in Black III

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: When Boris The Terrible (Jemaine Clement), the last survivor of a planet-destroying race of aliens, escapes his prison- he immediately travels back in time to erase the existence of the man who captured him, Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones)....

Review: The Dictator

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: On his way to deliver a speech at the UN, Admiral General Aladeen (Sasha Baron-Cohen)- the dictator of Wadiya, is usurped by his uncle (Ben Kingsley), and finds himself alone in New York. In order to reclaim his dictatorship,...

Review: Hysteria

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The apparently true story of how, in 1902 London, a young physician named Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) invented the vibrator- which he intended to use in the treatment of “hysteria”- or rather, horniness in English women. REVIEW: It’s amazing...

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