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 Bounty Hunter

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: A down on his luck bounty hunter named Milo (Gerard Butler)learns that his next assignment is his ex-wife Nicole (Jennifer Aniston), a reporter who’s skipped bail to investigate an important lead on a murder she’s been investigating. Soon, the...

Review: She’s Out Of My League

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: An average guy named Kirk (Jay Barushel), who works as a security guard at an airport with his buddies, meets the woman of his dreams- Molly (Alice Eve). To his utter amazement, she’s instantly attracted to the likable Kirk,...

Review: Remember Me

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A rebellious young man (Robert Pattinson) falls in love with a young woman (Emilie de Ravin) with an over-protective father (Chris Cooper), and a tragic past. Meanwhile, he also has to contend with his own emotionally distant father (Pierce...

Review: Brooklyn’s Finest

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: The story of three unrelated Brooklyn cops, each of whom is facing an ethical dilemma that puts their lives and careers on the line. Eddie (Richard Gere) is a middle-aged beat cop with seven days to retirement, who battles...

Review: The White Ribbon

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In the months leading up to the start of the First World War, strange, violent incidents resembling ritual punishment take place in a small German village. REVIEW: In many ways, THE WHITE RIBBON is a war film. Not in...

Review: A Prophet

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A young Arab, Malik (Tahar Rahim) is sentenced to six years in prison. Barely nineteen, and isolated from his Arabic brethren due to his lack of religious convictions, young Malik is easy prey for Luciani (Niels Arestrup), the head...

Review: Cop Out

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Two cops (Bruce Willis & Tracy Morgan) get tangled up with an eccentric thief (Seann William Scott) and a baseball memorabilia-obsessed mobster (Guillermo Diaz) when a valuable baseball card is stolen from one of the cops- who hopes to...

Review: The Crazies

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A mysterious toxin infects a small town’s water supply, turning most of the inhabitants into psychotic killers. After the non-infected residents are rounded up by the military, the town’s sheriff (Timothy Olyphant) escapes, and heads back into the quarantined...

Review: The Messenger

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A soldier (Ben Foster) returning home after a tour of duty in Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification Service, under the supervision of a veteran officer (Woody Harrelson). REVIEW: For the most part, THE MESSENGER is an...

Review: Shutter Island

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In Boston, circa 1954, two U.S Marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio & Mark Ruffalo) are sent to the remote Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane on Shutter Island, to investigate the disappearance of an inmate. REVIEW: I walked into SHUTTER ISLAND...

Load more articles