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: A Thousand Words

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: A fast-talking literary agent (Eddie Murphy) who’s trying to sign a famous self-help guru, is pricked by a magical tree. As a result, each word he says results in a leaf falling from the tree. When the tree is...

Review: Salmon Fishing in Yemen

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) whose client, a wealthy Sheik (Amr Waked)- is willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to bring Salmon Fishing to the Yemen. REVIEW: SALMON FISHING IN...

Review: John Carter

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A Civil-War vet, John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is magically plucked from our world, and transported to Barsoom- aka Mars, which is being ravaged by an evil warlord named Sab Than (Dominic West) who’s under the control of a race...

Review: Friends With Kids

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) are life-long friends, who’ve never entertained the notion of sleeping together. When their best friends, couples Leslie (Maya Rudolph) and Alex (Chris O’Dowd), and Ben (Jon Hamm) and Missy (Kristen Wiig) start...

Review: Project X

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Three high-schoolers throw a house party that quickly spirals out of control. REVIEW: I remember when PROJECT X was announced in the trades. HANGOVER director Todd Phillips, was on-board Godfathering the hush-hush project, which did a massive coast-to-coast talent...

Review: I Am Bruce Lee

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: An in-depth examination of Kung-Fu cinema superstar Bruce Lee, who to this day remains the most iconic martial artist in film history. REVIEW: Bruce Lee had a profound influence on my life. Despite the fact that I wasn’t born...

The Oscar winners and our impressions of the night as a whole

Posted 15 years ago

And so, another edition of the Academy Awards is in the books. Overall, this was a predictable end to a rather predictable year at the Oscars. I think we all knew, once the nominations were released, and films like DRIVE...

Review: Act of Valor

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A Navy SEAL team is sent to rescue an undercover CIA agent, who alerts them to a terrorist plot to deploy suicide bombers throughout the US, through a drug cartel-run secret cross-border tunnel in Mexico. REVIEW: ACT OF VALOR...

Review: Wanderlust

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Having recently lost their New York home, George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston)- broke, and utterly without hope, stumble upon a hippie commune. The laid-back, stress-free lifestyle appeals to the broke couple, and they become part of the...

Review: A Separation

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: An upper-middle class Iranian couple separate when the wife, Simin (Leila Hatami) decides that she doesn’t want their daughter growing up in Iran’s repressive environment. Her husband, Nader (Peyman Moaadi) – a reasonable enough guy, feels he can’t leave...

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