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: Bullhead

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Jacky Vanmarsenille (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a hulking brute of a man. A cattle rancher by trade, his family has deep connections to the trade of illegal growth hormones in Belgium, which, unbeknownst to him, has made them the target...

Review: The Flowers of War

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In the early days of the second Sino-Japanese War, an American mortician, John Miller (Christian Bale), in China to bury a European priest, finds himself caught up in the infamous “rape of Nanking”. He takes shelter in a Catholic...

Review: The Secret World of Arrietty

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Arrietty is a Borrower. The Borrowers are a species of tiny, 10cm tall people, who hide in homes, borrowing the supplies they need to survive. If they are ever seen by human eyes- they have to flee. When Arrietty...

Review: Albert Nobbs

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) has a secret. For years, Nobbs has been working at a hotel in Dublin, as the resident butler. Unbeknownst to the staff, Nobbs- a confirmed bachelor is not in fact the comely, middle-aged man they...

C’mon Hollywood: Separate Oscar category for best comedy?

Posted 15 years ago

Chris A few months ago, Judd Apatow, who’s produced and/or directed some of the best comedies in recent years, including this year’s sleeper hit BRIDESMAIDS, suggested that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, overhaul their categories for best...

Review: This Means War

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: CIA operatives FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) are regulated to desk duty after a firefight with a terrorist leaves a pile of dead bodies and bad press for the agency. Now free to think about their love...

Review: In Darkness

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In German-occupied Poland, a Polish sewer-worker, who dabbles as a small time crook, stumbles upon a group of Jewish refugees, hiding from the Nazis in the sewers. He offers to help them in exchange for all of their money...

Review: Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace 3D

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Two Jedi Knights, Qui-Gon Jin, (Liam Neeson) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) uncover Sith treachery when they’re sent as emissaries to the peaceful planet Naboo to mediate a trade conflict. They narrowly escape death, and end up stranded on...

Review: Safe House

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A notorious CIA turncoat, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) re-emerges as a hunted man in South Africa. He turns himself into the American Embassy, and is taken to a safe house operated by junior CIA agent Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds)....

Review: Rampart

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In 1999 Los Angeles, renegade cop Dave “Date-Rape” Brown (Woody Harrelson) deals with fall-out from the Rampart investigations, with his own misdeeds making him a departmental fall-guy. REVIEW: Oren Moverman’s RAMPART probably sounds like just another dirty cop flick...

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