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: Kill The Irishman

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Danny Green (Ray Stevenson) an Irish mob enforcer who went to war with the Cleveland Mafia during the seventies, surviving dozens of assassination attempts, and cutting a swath through the city’s mob leadership. REVIEW :...

Review: The Lincoln Lawyer

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A slick attorney, Mick Haller (Matthew McConaughey), is hired to defend a rich Beverly Hills real estate developer (Ryan Phillippe) in a brutal assault case. REVIEW : Now this is a real surprise. By now, I’ve all but written...

Review: Paul

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Two British fanboys (Simon Pegg & Nick Frost) visiting the US for Comic-Con, encounter an alien named Paul (voice of Seth Rogen) on the run from a government agent (Jason Bateman) and his two bumbling sidekicks (Bill Hader &...

Review: Limitless

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A struggling writer (Bradley Cooper) gets access to a super-drug that artificially elevates his IQ to genius level. REVIEW: LIMITLESS is a mess. I guess I should have expected as much given the shifting release dates and hasty re-titling...

Review: Elektra Luxx

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: A porn star, Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino) retires from the biz after she discovers she’s pregnant. REVIEW: ELEKTRA LUXX is director Sebastian Gutierrez’s follow-up to WOMEN IN TROUBLE, an earlier ensemble comedy that featured a lot of the characters...

Review: Red Riding Hood

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: In this re-imagining of “Little Red Riding Hood””, Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman, living with her parents (Billy Burke & Virginia Madsen) in a tiny Medieval village. Her parents arrange for her to marry Henry (Max...

Review: Battle: Los Angeles

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A rag-tag group of marines, led by the heroic Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) defend Los Angeles after a worldwide Alien invasion. REVIEW: BATTLE: LOS ANGELES was probably pitched to studio execs as BLACK HAWK DOWN meets INDEPENDENCE DAY,...

Review: Brotherhood

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: As the final stage of initiation into a prestigious college fraternity, pledges are instructed to don a mask and rob a convenience store. Of course, the ritual is bogus, with each pledge being stopped before going through with the...

Dear So-and-So: Robert De Niro

Posted 16 years ago

Can I call you Bobby D? Ok, probably not. We’ll just stick with Mr. De Niro, shall we? Mr. De Niro, I write this letter with all due respect. You sir are, without a doubt, one of the greatest actors...

Review: The Adjustment Bureau

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: David Norris (Matt Damon) is a promising young politician, who- after a crushing defeat, meets and falls in love with a dancer, Elise (Emily Blunt). There’s just one problem; David was never supposed to fall in love with Elise,...

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