Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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 Descendants

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Matt King (George Clooney) is the descendant of Hawaiian royalty, and, along with his many cousins, owns a big chunk of highly valued land. On the eve of a big land deal, in which Matt is the trustee, his...

Review: Melancholia

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The wedding reception of Justine (Kirsten Dunst); a clinically depressed young woman, and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) is juxtaposed against the potential end of all life on earth, due to an imminent collision with the planet Melancholia. REVIEW: MELANCHOLIA is...

Review: Immortals

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In Ancient Greece, the evil King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) seeks a mythical golden bow, that will unleash the banished Titans upon the world, damning mankind to slavery. Forbidden to interfere in the affairs of man, Zeus (Luke Evans) and...

Review: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst

Posted 15 years ago

Review: J. Edgar

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The life of J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), who reigned supreme as the head of the FBI for forty years. The film examines his formative years, spent chasing communist saboteurs, gangsters, and the kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby, as...

Review: Tower Heist

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When the staff of a luxury apartment building is ripped-off in a tenant’s (Alan Alda) Ponzi scheme, the building manager (Ben Stiller) decides to get even by raiding the unscrupulous tenant’s apartment, where he’s rumored to be hiding $20...

Review: In Time (2011), starring Justin Timberlake

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In the future, people will stop aging at twenty-five. From that point, they will each have one year left on their imprinted time code, which they use as currency. The rich can virtually stay twenty-five forever, but the poor,...

Review: The Double

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Former CIA operative Paul Shepardson (Richard Gere) is called out of retirement when his former cold war foe, Cassius, starts killing again. He’s teamed with a young analyst (Topher Grace) who wrote his MA thesis on the cat &...

Review: In Time

Posted 15 years ago

Review: The Rum Diary

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: An American journalist named Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) takes a job at a newspaper in Puerto Rico, that’s teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. While there, he encounters a former journalist turned land-developer (Aaron Eckhart), and his young, beautiful...

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