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: Carnage

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Two sets of parents (Jodie Foster & John C. Reilly, Christophe Waltz & Kate Winslet) meet to discuss a school-yard fight involving their two sons. What starts off as a cordial meeting soon devolves into a drunken, childish shouting...

Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In London, circa the early seventies, Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) – a “scalp hunter” for The Circus- a division of MI6, remerges after a presumed defection, with information suggesting that one of the heads of The Circus is a...

Interview: Nicolas Winding Refn

Posted 15 years ago

It’s no secret that DRIVE is my favorite film of the year. I gave it a perfect score in my review, and I fully stand by it. I loved everything about it, and when the opportunity came up for me...

Review: Shame

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a deeply troubled New Yorker, in the throws of an out-of-control sex addiction. While at work, he spends his days watching internet porn, and sneaking off to the washroom to masturbate. At home, he feeds...

Review: We Bought a Zoo

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: After his wife dies, Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) decides to relocate his family – consisting of fourteen-year-old Dylan (Colin Ford) and five-year-old Rosie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones) – and buy, a run-down Southern California Zoo. Determined to give his new...

Review: Arthur Christmas

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When Santa (Jim Broadbent) misses a young girl’s house on Christmas Eve, his clumsy son Arthur (James McAvoy) and Grandsanta (Bill Nighy) hijack a de-commissioned sleigh and some old reindeer in a hope to deliver her gift before she...

Review: The Artist

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In 1927 Hollywood, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is the biggest star in town. The veteran of dozens of swashbuckling adventures that pair him with his plucky Jack Russell terrier, Valentin is the envy of every man, and the dream...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: The sorry state of film exhibition

Posted 15 years ago

Chris How many of you have been to a theatre recently, where the audio/visual presentation of the movie was subpar? I wager a lot of you. With theatre attendance down, and flat box-office, a lot of theatre chains seem to...

Review: Hugo

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Young Hugo (Asa Butterfield) is an orphan living in a Parisian train station, where he poses as his drunken uncle- who’s responsible for winding the station’s clocks. He survives by stealing from the vendors, but is caught by an...

Review: Breaking Dawn (Part 1)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The big day is here! Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) are finally getting married- and after a honeymoon in Rio, Edward’s going to turn Bella into a vamp so the two can spend eternity together....

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