Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,016 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 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...

Review: Like Crazy

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A British exchange student, Anna (Felicity Jones) falls madly in love with Jacob (Anton Yelchin), an American student/aspiring carpenter. Throughout their college years, the two enjoy a blissful romance, but harsh reality sets in when Anna violates her student...

Review: Anonymous

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans), the Earl of Oxford , in addition to being a proud supporter of the Essex Rebellion, and a former lover of Queen Elizabeth I (Vanessa Redgrave), is secretly a playwright. His plays, highly satirical...

Review: The Three Musketeers 3D

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) journeys to Paris, hoping to join his Musketeer idols, Athos (Matthew MacFayden), Aramis (Luke Evans), and Porthos (Ray Stevenson). He arrives to find the Musketeers, recently betrayed by the duplicitous Milady (Milla Jovovich), dejected and...

Review: Paranormal Activity 3

Posted 15 years ago

NOTE: John “The Arrow” Fallon’s review will be up over the weekend. PLOT: A prequel set in 1988, showing the initial haunting of sisters Katie (Chloe Csenery- later Katie Featherstone), and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown- later Sprague Grayden) by a...

Review: Paranormal Activity 3

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A prequel set in 1988, showing the initial haunting of sisters Katie (Chloe Csenery- later Katie Featherstone), and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown- later Sprague Grayden) by a supernatural presence that would return years later to provoke the events of...

Review: Margin Call

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: On the eve of the 2008 stock market collapse, the key employees of a large investment bank on the brink of a financial calamity strategise in an effort to save their firm. REVIEW: Kevin Spacey. Stanley Tucci. Paul Bettany....

Review: Red State

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Three teens (Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano, Nicolas Braun) looking for sex, are lured to a rendezvous with a mysterious woman (Melissa Leo). The boys are drugged, and brought to the compound of Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks), who runs...

Review: The Skin I Live In (2011), starring Antonio Banderas

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A brilliant plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas), keeps a beautiful young lady named Vera (Elena Ayana) prisoner in his mansion, which is located on a sprawling estate. He uses her as a guinea pig for his revolutionary breakthroughs in plastic...

Review: Killing Bono

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: During the eighties, two brothers (Ben Barnes & Robert Sheehan) attempt to become rock stars, while living in the shadow of their former high-school chums, who went on to global stardom as U2. REVIEW: KILLING BONO follows in the...

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