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 King’s Speech

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The true story of King George the Sixth (Colin Firth), who, after the abdication of his brother, was forced to take the throne, on the eve of Britain’s entry into the Second World War. This film tells how the...

Review: Love & Other Drugs

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Circa-1996, a womanizing Pfizer pitchman (Jake Gyllenhaal), falls in love with a beautiful woman (Anne Hathaway) afflicted by early onset Parkinson’s. Meanwhile, his sales start to skyrocket once his company introduces Viagra. REVIEW: LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS is a...

Review: Tangled

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Young Princess Rapunzel’s (Mandy Moore) hair holds the secret to eternal youth, provided it never gets cut. In order to stay young, an old woman named Gothel (Donna Murphy) kidnaps the princess, raising her as her own child. Not...

Review: Faster

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: An ex-con (The Rock) goes after his brother’s killers, all the while being hunted by a dogged, heroin-addicted cop (Bill Bob Thorton), and a hit man (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). REVIEW: FASTER is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s long-awaited return to the...

Review: The Next Three Days

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: John Brennan’s (Russell Crowe) family is torn apart when his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested, tried, and convicted for a murder she didn’t commit. Desperate to reunite his family, John hatches a daring plan to bust her out...

Review: Skyline

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: After a night of partying, a group of L.A hipsters, including expectant parents Jarrod (Eric Balfour), and Elaine (Scottie Thompson), wake up to discover strange lights in the sky pulling people up into alien ships. REVIEWS: I have good...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: More movies for grown-ups!

Posted 16 years ago

Chris Take a look at JoBlo.com’s box-office recaps from the last few weeks. Notice any trends? Movies that skew younger, like PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, JACKASS 3D, and SAW 3D all had huge openings, but in their second weekends all had...

Review: Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part 1

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), now hunted by the minions of Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) embarks on a quest to destroy the evil sorcerer’s remaining Horcruxes, in order to finally put an end to his reign of terror. He’s joined...

Review: Unstoppable

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: After a careless conductor loses control of a freight train loaded with hazardous materials, a veteran conductor (Denzel Washington), and a young engineer (Chris Pine) must somehow regain control of the out-of-control locomotive before it releases its payload into...

Review: Morning Glory

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Becky (Rachel McAdams), a young, high strung TV news producer, is hired to revitalize a struggling morning chat show. In order to give the show a higher pedigree, she hires a snobby veteran news anchor, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford),...

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