Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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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: Blue Valentine

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The beginning and the end of a relationship between two highly complex young adults (Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams). REVIEW: BLUE VALENTINE was definitely one of the more controversial, and challenging films to emerge from the Sundance Film Festival...

The Ten Best Movies of 2010!

Posted 16 years ago

I can understand why some people may think 2010 has been an underwhelming year at the movies. To be sure, the first half of the year was ROUGH. The early part of the summer, filled with movies that were either...

Review: Little Fockers

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A health scare leads family patriarch Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) to consider his son-in-law Gaylord “Greg” Focker (Ben Stiller) as the next-in-line to the family throne. Gaylord, desperate to once again win Jack’s approval, tries to prove himself...

Review: How Do You Know

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A former Olympic-class softball player (Reese Witherspoon), is torn between two men; a randy, baseball superstar (Owen Wilson), and a kindly businessman (Paul Rudd) who’s in trouble with the authorities after being accused of wire fraud at his father’s...

Review: True Grit

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: After her father is murdered, young Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires an aging U.S Marshall, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to help her bring the killer, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) to justice. REVIEW: Believe the hype. TRUE GRIT is an...

Review: Tron: Legacy

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Twenty years after Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), the CEO of ENCOM International, disappears, his son Sam (Garret Hedlund) finds himself sucked into a mysterious computer world, ruled by CLU, his father’s doppleganger, who rules with an iron fist. Forced...

Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: With their older siblings in America, Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes), stuck in WW2-era London, are forced to seek shelter with their disagreeable cousin Eustace Scrubb (Will Poulter). During an argument over an old painting, Lucy...

Review: The Tourist

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Frank (Johnny Depp) is an American tourist taking a trip through Europe, while trying to mend a broken heart. One day, he crosses paths with an elegant beauty named Elise (Angelina Jolie) who seems to take an instant liking...

Review: The Fighter

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The true story of boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg), who at age thirty-one, became an unlikely champ under the tutelage of his brother, Dickie (Christian Bale), a former contender-turned-crack addict. REVIEW: Who doesn’t love a great film about...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: Get Bond 23 Back On-Track!

Posted 16 years ago

Chris UPDATE: Just read this little item on The Playlist. According to potential Bond 23 helmer Sam Mendes’ estranged wife, Kate Winslet, Mendes IS still attached to direct the next Bond and will begin production early next year. This concurs...

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