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 Darkest Hour

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Two young American software developers (Emile Hirsch & Max Minghella), in Moscow on business, find themselves among the few survivors of an alien invasion. Along with three other survivors (Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor & Joel Kinnaman), they scour the...

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2011 (According to Chris Bumbray)

Posted 15 years ago

And so, another year is in the books. Overall, 2011 has been a pretty solid year for movies, although the majority of really good films tended to fall outside the studio system, once again coming from the indie or international...

Review: The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: After inadvertently acquiring a model ship sought by the villainous Sakharine (Daniel Craig); intrepid, boy reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell), and his faithful dog Snowy set off on a globetrotting adventure. Along the way, they meet the alcoholic, kind-hearted Captain...

Review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), a precocious nine-year-old, loses his father (Tom Hanks) on 9/11. One year later, Oskar is still having a hard time dealing with his grief and relating to his mother (Sandra Bullock). One day, while looking...

Review: War Horse

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) is a lad growing up on an impoverished farm in Devon. His drunken father (Peter Mullan) spends the family savings on a beautiful horse in an effort to best his landlord (David Thelwis). Albert’s mother...

Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The game is afoot for Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his sidekick Dr. Watson (Jude Law) when they run up against the evil genius Moriarty (Jared Harris)- who threatens to plunge Europe into war with his nefarious scheme....

Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is hired by reclusive Swedish industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer) to solve the forty year-old disappearance of his niece, Harriet. He’s aided by an enigmatic investigator, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) – a young...

Review: The Sitter

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: As a favour to his mom, Noah (Jonah Hill), a twenty-something slacker, agrees to babysit three rowdy kids for a family friend. Over the course of the evening, Noah and his young wards will run afoul of a coke...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Give us more outside the box casting

Posted 15 years ago

Chris Every time a big action role comes up, whether it’s a new superhero franchise being cast, or a “reboot” of a popular film/franchise, it seems like the same group of actors is always bandied about. You know the names:...

Review: New Year’s Eve

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The love-lives of a bunch of lonely New Yorkers intersect on New Year’s Eve. Will everyone find happiness by the time the ball drops at 12? Meh, who cares… REVIEW: Ashton Kutcher. Lea Michele. Katherine Heigl. Josh Duhamel. Sarah...

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