Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,017 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: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When the Autobots learn that a long-lost Cybertronian spacecraft is being hidden on the moon, they must fight to keep it’s secrets from falling into the hands of the Decepticons, who want to use it’s power to enslave mankind....

Review: Beginners

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a lonely graphic artist, starts a new relationship with a beautiful young actress (Melanie Laurent), while reflecting his late father’s (Christopher Plummer) final years, during which he outed himself as a gay man. REVIEW: BEGINNERS was...

Review: Bad Teacher

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a bad teacher. After only teaching for a year, Elizabeth thinks she’s on easy street when she bags a rich fiancée. Once she gets dumped, she’s forced to return to the job she hates,...

Review: Cars 2

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is challenged by his arch-nemesis, Francesco Bernoulli (John Turturro); an arrogant F1 racer, to participate in the Grand Prix. With Mater (Larry The Cable Guy) in tow, McQueen heads to Tokyo. Soon, Mater finds himself...

Review: Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A New York real-estate shark, Mr. Popper (Jim Carrey), finds himself in the possession of six penguins, left to him by his late, explorer father. At first, Popper’s penguins make his life a living hell, but soon he grows...

Review: Green Lantern

Posted 15 years ago

[Ed. note: Here’s a second opinion on GREEN LANTERN. Read JimmyO’s original review here.] PLOT: Hotshot pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is recruited into the Green Lantern corp; an intergalactic squadron of heroes tasked with battling evil wherever it may...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Clear off the shelf!

Posted 15 years ago

Chris Shelved. That’s what the industry calls it when, for one reason or another, a studio opts not to release one of their films in a timely fashion. The reasons vary. Sometimes, for some reason or other, big chunks of...

Review: The Art of Getting By

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: George (Freddie Highmore) is a depressed teen who’s managed to make it through most of his senior year without ever having done his homework. Meanwhile, he falls in love with Sally (Emma Roberts) a popular girl who admires his...

Review: The Ward

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Amber Heard) is institutionalized in a mental hospital haunted by the ghost of a former patient. Soon, her and her fellow inmates are being stalked and picked off one by one by this evil force, which...

Review: Midnight in Paris

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A jaded Hollywood screenwriter (Owen Wilson), on vacation with his fiancée (Rachel McAdams) in Paris, discovers a way to travel back to Paris in the twenties, where he can spend time with his literary heroes, like Ernest Hemingway, and...

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