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: Four Lions

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Omar (Riz Ahmed), is a young Muslim man living in England who, after a clumsy trip to a Jihadist training camp in Pakistan, decides to martyr himself for the cause. He enlists his pals Waj (Kayvan Novak), Faisal (Adeel...

Review: 127 Hours

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco), who was trapped in a canyon for 127 HOURS after a loose boulder pinned his arm. REVIEW: Seeing as how 127 HOURS is the follow-up to Danny Boyle’s Best...

C’Mon Hollywood: Back-to-Back Sequelitis

Posted 16 years ago

Chris This weekend, after hearing so much about the 25th anniversary of BACK TO THE FUTURE, I was feeling a little nostalgic for old Marty McFLy and Doc Brown, so I decided to re-watch the entire trilogy. I absolutely adore...

Review: Due Date

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: High-strung architect Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is rushing home to LA from Atlanta to make it back to his pregnant wife (Michelle Monaghan) who’s due in a few days. After a misunderstanding lands him on a “no-fly” list,...

Blu-Ray Review: Predators

Posted 16 years ago

Chris Bumbray reviews “Predators”

Review: Saw 3D

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Picking up immediately after the last instalment, SAW 3D finds Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) the inheritor of the late Jigsaw’s (Tobin Bell) legacy. While seeking revenge on Jigsaw’s ex-wife, Jill (Betsy Russell), who left him for dead in the...

Review: Carlos

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The life of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, AKA Carlos the Jackal, the infamous terrorist responsible for countless bombings, hijackings, and murders throughout the seventies through his association with the PLO. REVIEW: CARLOS is one of the more ambitious films I’ve...

Review: Fair Game

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The true story of former CIA agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) whose CIA agent status was leaked to the press by White House officials in order to discredit her Ambassador husband, Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), who criticized the US...

C’MON HOLLYWOOD: No Bourne without Bourne!

Posted 16 years ago

Chris By now, everyone knows that in the summer of 2012, another installment of the BOURNE franchise will be hitting theaters. Titled THE BOURNE LEGACY, this one will be helmed by Tony Gilroy, who has writing credits on all the...

Review: Monsters

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Six years from now, aliens have begun to colonize Earth. Each area with a heavy alien presence is known as an infected zone- and the US has built a massive wall around it’s borders in an attempt to keep...

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