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: Toy Story 3

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: With Andy due to leave for college, Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), and the rest of the TOY STORY gang are left with the possibility of a one way trip to the junkyard. The toys end up getting...

Interview: Killer Inside Me director Michael Winterbottom

Posted 16 years ago

Of all the films I caught at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, none was more controversial than THE KILLER INSIDE ME. Based on the classic piece of fifties pulp fiction by Jim Thompson, whose previous film adaptations include THE GRIFTERS...

Review: The Karate Kid

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: When his mother’s career gets her transfered to Beijing, twelve-year old Dre (Jaden Smith) is forced to leave his friends in Detroit behind for a new life in China. Once there, he becomes the target of a group of...

Review: The A-Team

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A top-secret unit of Army Rangers, stationed in Iraq, and made up of team leader Hannibal (Liam Neeson), scrounger/confidence man Face (Bradley Cooper), muscle man B.A Baracus (Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson), and pilot Murdock (Sharlto Copley) are sent to recover...

Review: Splice

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Two scientists (Adrien Brody & Sarah Polley) splice animal & human DNA to create a hybrid being- the initially passive Dren (Delphine Chaneac). As Dren begins to learn and grow at an accelerated rate, the animal/human hybrid begins to...

Review: Sex and the City 2

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her best gal pals (Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis) are back! Two years after finally tying the knot with the infamous Big (Chris Noth), Carrie’s starting to feel tied down. Needing...

Review: MacGruber

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: After his arch nemesis, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) steals a nuclear missile, ex-special forces operative MacGruber (Will Forte) is called out of retirement, and teamed with a young soldier (Ryan Phillipe), in an effort to foil the madman’s...

Review: Shrek Forever After

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: All is not well in the land of “Far, Far Away”. Shrek (Mike Myers), and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) are happily married and raising their three Ogre babies, while Donkey (Eddie Murphy) has a brood of his own, and Puss...

DVD Review: Avatar

Posted 16 years ago

Chris Bumbray reviews “Avatar”

Review: Harry Brown

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Harry Brown (Michael Caine) is an elderly widower living in a gang infested slum. A former soldier, once stationed in Ulster during “The Troubles”, Brown now lives quietly, and tries to get by the best he can. When his...

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