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: Hanna

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a sixteen-year-old unlike any other. Raised by her father, a former CIA agent named Erik Heller (Eric Bana), in the wilderness, and trained to be the perfect assassin- Hanna now finds herself alone in the...

Review: Super

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A low-key, regular guy (Rainn Wilson) transforms himself into a super hero called The Crimson Bolt, after his addict wife (Liv Tyler) falls under the sway of a local drug lord (Kevin Bacon). He’s joined on his quest by...

Review: Insidious

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When a young couple, Josh (Patrick Wilson), and Renai (Rose Byrne) move their growing family into a new home, they become plagued by a supernatural entity that has designs on their newly comatose son. REVIEW: In many ways INSIDIOUS...

Review: Rubber

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A telekinetic rubber tire goes on a killing spree in a small town deep in the California desert. REVIEW: Well, I’ll say this: RUBBER is without a doubt, the best killer tire movie you’ll ever see. Sarcasm aside, RUBBER...

Review: Source Code

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal), a helicopter pilot serving a tour in Afghanistan, wakes up on board a commuter train in Chicago, with his consciousness somehow transferred to another man’s body. After a few minutes, the train blows up, and...

Review: Jane Eyre

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT : A meek governess, Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) bewitches her employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender). Initially a cruel, dark-hearted man, Eyre is able to soften Rochester’s heart, but demons from his past threaten their future together. REVIEW: Director Cary...

Review: Win Win

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Mike (Paul Giamatti) is a struggling attorney, who moonlights as a high-school wrestling coach. After signing on to be an elderly man’s (Burt Young) guardian, he has to take in the man’s grandson, Kyle (Alex Shaffer), whose mother is...

Review: Sucker Punch

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT : A young girl (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather, and due to undergo a lobotomy in five days at the hands of the “High Roller” (Jon Hamm). In order to escape her fate, she, and her...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Wolverine, Aronofsky and the sad state of Fox

Posted 15 years ago

Chris Last week, Darren Aronofsky; riding a career high after the tremendous critical and commercial success of BLACK SWAN, stepped down from 20th Century Fox’s upcoming X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE sequel, appropriately titled THE WOLVERINE. In the wake of his recent...

Review: Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: An in depth profile of the ‘King of the B’s’ Roger Corman,who, over his sixty year career, has produced such grindhouse classics as DEATH RACE 2000, PIRANHA, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, GRAND THEFT AUTO, ROCK N’ ROLL HIGH...

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