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: The Conspirator

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A dramatization of the trial of Mary Surrat (Robin Wright Penn), who; along with seven men, is accused of being confederates of John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell)- the man who killed Abraham Lincoln. She’s defended by a Union war...

Review: Thor

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Arrogant warrior Thor (Chris Hemsworth), heir to the throne of Asgard, is cast out of his realm by his father, King Odin (Anthony Hopkins). He’s banished to Earth, where he meets a young physicist, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). While...

Review: Fast Five

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: After the events of the last film; Dominic (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) are now fugitives, and hiding out in Rio De Janeiro. After a heist goes wrong, they find themselves marked for death by...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Matt and Trey give us another movie already!

Posted 15 years ago

Chris I don’t think it would be too much of a stretch to call Matt Stone and Trey Parker two of the most important comedic talents to emerge in the last twenty years. “South Park,” now on its 15th season,...

Review: Water For Elephants

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When his parents are killed in a hit-and-run, a depression-era veterinary student; Jacob (Robert Pattinson) hits the road, and falls in with a traveling circus, lorded over by a sadistic maestro; August (Christoph Waltz). He becomes the de facto...

Review: American: The Bill Hicks Story

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A documentary examining the life of Bill Hicks; widely considered one of the greatest stand-up comics of all-time, who tragically died from cancer at age thirty-two. REVIEW: Bill Hicks was a genius. One of the greatest pop-culture tragedies of...

Review: Scream 4

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Returning to Woodsboro to launch her new self-help book, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), once again finds herself the target of the Ghostface Killer. With the killer now stalking her niece Jill (Emma Roberts), and her group of friends, including...

Review: Hobo With A Shotgun

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A hobo (Rutger Hauer) arrives in a town plagued with crime; which is ruled over by a crime lord named Drake (Brian Downey), and his two psychotic sons. Tired of the rampant crime, the titular hobo buys himself a...

Review: Arthur

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A boozy playboy named Arthur (Russell Brand), stands to lose his multi-billion dollar inheritance if he doesn’t settle down and marry the businesswoman, Susan (Jennifer Garner) that his mother has chosen to be his mate. Meanwhile, Arthur falls in...

Review: Your Highness

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Lazy Prince Thadeous (Danny McBride) has always been in the shadow of his noble, heroic, older brother Fabious (James Franco). When Fabious’ virginal bride Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel) is kidnapped by the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the two mismatched...

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