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: Letters to Juliet

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a fact checker for The New Yorker, is in Verona on a pre-honeymoon with her restaurateur fiancée (Gael Garcia Bernal). One day, while visiting the historic home of Juliet Capulet, immortalized in ROMEO & JULIET, she...

Review: Iron Man 2

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Billionaire superhero Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) is back, and this time, he has to contend with a billionaire competitor Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), who recruits a Russian psychopath/inventor named Ivan Venko (Mickey Rourke) to develop a new...

Movie Reviews

Review: A Nightmare On Elm Street

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A group of teens are terrorized in their dreams by a horribly burned bogey man named Freddy Krueger (Robert En…Umm..Jackie Earle Haley) with a striped sweater, a bladed glove and a fedora. Read another take on A NIGHTMARE ON...

Review: The Losers

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A group of special ops soldiers; consisting of leader Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), hacker Jensen (Chris Evans), mechanic Pooch (Columbus Short), sniper Cougar (Óscar Jaenada) and weapons specialist Roque (Idris Elba), are betrayed and left for dead by their...

Review: Death at a Funeral

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: When the patriarch of a large family dies, the oldest son (Chris Rock), is charged with reuniting his estranged family for the funeral, which runs comically awry. REVIEW: DEATH AT A FUNERAL is a scene-for-scene remake of an identically...

Review: Kick-Ass

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A geeky, teenaged comic book fan, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides to become a superhero, despite possessing no special abilities or strengths. His first foray as the costumed hero Kick-Ass is almost his last, with him spending the next...

Review: Date Night

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Phil (Steve Carell), and Claire (Tina Fey) Foster are just your average, run-of-the mill couple, for whom the spark has gone out of their marriage. In an effort to bring some excitement into their lives, they decide to go...

Gary Oldman takes Flight with new documentary

Posted 16 years ago

Without a doubt, Gary Oldman is one of the greatest actors of our generation. But, did you know that in addition to his acting work, Oldman’s also dabbled in directing? In 1997, he directed a brilliant film, NIL BY MOUTH,...

Review: Clash of the Titans

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Demi-God Perseus (Sam Worthington), and his band of warriors, set out to destroy the Kraken, a mythical beast unleashed by Hades (Ralph Fiennes); the God of the Underworld, who seeks to usurp Zeus’s (Lian Neeson) throne as King of...

Review: Chloe

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A doctor (Julianne Moore) hires a young prostitute (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce her husband (Liam Neeson) – who she thinks is unfaithful. Review: CHLOE is the latest film from Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan, who, after taking a sojourn into...

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