Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Heat, The Guns read more 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 bad ones, and of course, Tom Cruise!

1999: A Look Back

Posted 17 years ago

Every once in a while, we hit upon a milestone year in cinema with 1939 remaining the gold standard, as that year saw the release of such timeless classics as GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ, GUNGA DIN,...

Review: The Blind Side

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: The story of NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), who, as a homeless teenager, was taken in by a wealthy Southern family, The Tuohy’s, headed by a fast food magnate (Tim McGraw), and his strong willed wife (Sandra...

Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: An upwardly mobile fox (George Clooney), tiring of his quiet, uneventful life, hatches a plan to steal chickens, ducks, turkey and cider from three greedy farmers: Boggis, Bunce and Bean. His scheme backfires when the trio declares war on...

Review: Pirate Radio

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: In the swinging sixties London, rock n’ roll is frowned upon by the stuffy British establishment, with radio stations not being permitted to play more than one hour of rock a day. In order to give listeners what they...

Review: 2012

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A global catastrophe threatening to end the world, throws together a disparate group of survivors. REVIEW: 2012 is exactly what the trailers make it look like- a bombastic disaster film that, like many of director Roland Emmerich’s films, manages...

Review: The Box

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A mysterious, badly scarred stranger (Frank Langella) presents a struggling young couple (Cameron Diaz & James Marsden) with a wooden box containing a button. If they press the button, they will receive $1 Million dollars tax free- but someone,...

Review: The Fourth Kind

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Supposedly fact based (riiiiight), this film examines close encounters of the so-called “fourth kind”- involving alien abductions, and the unsettling experiences of a psychologist (Milla Jovovich), who, along with several of her patients- becomes a victim to this phenomena....

Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A reporter (Ewan McGregor), embedded in Iraq in 2003, teams up with a former special ops soldier, Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be a highly trained psychic warrior, or “Jedi Knight”. Cassady claims he’s the product of...

Review: A Christmas Carol

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: A 3D animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic Victorian tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who changes his miserly ways after being visited by a series of spirits on Christmas Eve. REVIEW: I’m a sucker for Scrooge. I love this story,...

Review: An Education

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: Sixteen year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan), is working hard during her final year of high school to gain admission to Oxford University, in order to please her overbearing father (Alfred Molina). One day, she’s approached by a debonair, sophisticated,...

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