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: What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Five couples experience the joy, as well as the pitfalls (not to mention pratfalls) of having a baby. REVIEW: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING is another one of those rom-com omnibus films where, rather than focus on one...

Review: Sound Of My Voice

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A wanna-be documentary maker (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius) infiltrate a cult led by the charismatic Maggie (Brit Marling)- who claims to be from a post-apocalyptic future. REVIEW: SOUND OF MY VOICE was one of two sci-fi...

Review: Dark Shadows

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After spurning the affections of his chambermaid/witch- Angelique (Eva Green), the aristocratic Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is transformed into a vampire, and buried in a casket. Two hundred years later, in the year 1972, he’s awakened- and returns to...

Review: God Bless America

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Frank (Joel Murray) has had it. Tired of his nagging ex-wife, his cell-phone addict daughter, his noisy, moronic neighbors, and his idiotic co-workers, Frank realizes that they’re all victims is the increasingly inane pop-culture that now dominates North America....

Review: The Avengers (by Chris Bumbray)

Posted 14 years ago

(Read JimmyO’s review HERE) PLOT: When Loki (Tom Hiddleston) escapes his exile, and steals the phenomenally powerful tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D, it’s up to Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlet Johannson), Dr....

Review: The Five-Year Engagement

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) are the perfect couple. After getting engaged, Violet is offered a position at the University of Michigan, and Tom insists on turning down a prestigious chef’s job in order to support her...

Review: Get The Gringo

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: After a mad dash to the Mexican border, a criminal (Mel Gibson) is captured by federales, and sent to a Mexican prison- which is so crooked that the co-ed inmates not only have access to drugs, prostitutes, and all...

Review: The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) sails the high seas with his trusty crew of pirate misfits, including his first mate- The Pirate With A Scarf (Martin Freeman), and his beloved “parrot”. Determined to win the pirate of the year...

Review: The Lucky One

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Logan (Zac Efron)- a good-hearted marine, returns home after serving in Iraq- bent on tracking down a mysterious woman whose photo became his lucky charm through the dangerous final months of his last tour. The woman, Beth (Taylor Schilling),...

Review: The Moth Diaries

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) returns to boarding school after her summer holidays, and is thrilled to be reunited with her best friend Lucie (Sarah Gadon). She’s less thrilled when Lucie strikes up a deep friendship with a mysterious new student,...

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