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: The Three Stooges

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Larry (Sean Hayes), Curly (Will Sasso) and Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) leave the confines of their orphanage for the first time, in order to save it from foreclosure. They get tangled up with a femme fatale (Sofia Vergara) and her...

Review: Lockout

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Sixty years in the future, a sardonic ex- special agent- Snow (Guy Pearce) is framed for treason, but before he can start his thirty-year sentence on MS-One, a supermax prison orbiting the Earth, the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace) is...

Review: American Reunion

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: The gang’s all here, in this, the latest instalment of the AMERICAN PIE series, which finds Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Stiffler (Seann William Scott) descending on their home...

Review: Wrath of the Titans

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Years after his adventures in CLASH OF THE TITANS, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is once again pressed into battle, with him being forced to rescue his father- the God Zeus (Liam Neeson) who’s been imprisoned by his rogue son Ares...

Review: Bully

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A documentary on the effect of childhood bullying, focusing on the experiences of several students in Georgia, Oklahoma, Iowa, Mississippi, and Texas, and the grief stricken families of two bullied boys who committed suicide. REVIEW: BULLY is a film...

Review: The Hunger Games (Bumbray’s take)

Posted 14 years ago

Read JimmyO’s review here PLOT: In a society where a past revolt is punished by having each of twelve districts offer up their young as tribute, in a fight to the death where only one will live to be crowned...

Review: The Raid: Redemption

Posted 14 years ago

Read Eric Walkuski’s review here PLOT: An elite SWAT team is tasked with capturing an elusive drug lord, who’s holed up in a heavily guarded apartment building in Jakarta. Within moments, the crew is spotted, and attacked from all corners...

Review: The Trouble with Bliss

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is thirty-five years old, terminally unemployed, and still living with his disdainful father (Peter Fonda). Near the end of his rope, Bliss starts an affair with the eighteen-year-old daughter (Brie Larson) of a former...

Review: 21 Jump Street

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Two bumbling cops (Jonah Hill & Channing Tatum) are assigned to the 21 Jump Street unit, which sends them back to high school, undercover, in order to take down a drug ring. REVIEW: Of the horde of big-screen redo’s...

Review: Jeff Who Lives At Home

Posted 14 years ago

(originally reviewed in September 2011 during Toronto Film Festival) PLOT: Jeff (Jason Segel) is a thirty-year old slacker who’s waiting for the day destiny will pluck him from his mother’s (Susan Sarandon) basement. On his mom’s birthday, he’s sent to...

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