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 Skin I Live In

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: The Big Year

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Three avid birdwatchers (Steve Martin, Jack Black & Owen Wilson) compete with each other to see who can win the “big year”, which is an annual competition judging who can spot the most species of birds. REVIEW: THE BIG...

Review: Cell 211

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Juan (Alberto Ammann) – an expectant young father-to-be, just got a job as a prison guard in one of Spain’s most dangerous supermax facilities. Before starting work, he decides to take a guided tour of the facility, but he’s...

Review: Trespass

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A diamond broker (Nicolas Cage) and his wife (Nicole Kidman) are held captive in their sprawling estate by a gang of thugs, who are convinced that the couple is hiding $200,000 in stones. Knowing they’ll be killed if they...

Review: Margaret

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A teenaged girl, Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin) indirectly contributes to a bus accident, which claims the life of a woman (Alison Janney) who dies in her arms. Feeling guilty for her role in the accident, Lisa tries to get...

Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Martha (Elizabeth Olson) is a young woman who’s spent the last two years living as part of a cult headed by the charismatic Patrick (John Hawkes). Having escaped, she moves in with her sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and brother...

Review: The Ides of March

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney) is a presidential hopeful in the midst of the Democratic Primary in Ohio. His top flak, a media maestro named Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) is a young and ambitious idealist- in constant conflict with...

Review: Dream House (2011), starring Daniel Craig

Posted 15 years ago

NOTE: Being that The Arrow aka John Fallon is abroad at the moment, he will be reviewing Dream House late. PLOT: A big-city book editor, Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) relocates his family; consisting of his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz), and...

Review: Dream House

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A big-city book editor, Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) relocates his family; consisting of his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz), and two daughters, to a seemingly idyllic upstate setting. After settling into the family’s “Dream House”, Will discovers that the house’s...

Review: 50/50

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) seems to have it all. Only twenty-seven, he has a good job, and a cute girlfriend, and is happy. Suddenly, his world in thrown into turmoil, when he’s diagnosed with an aggressive form of spinal cancer,...

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