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!

Review: Land of the Lost

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: A disgraced Paleontologist (Will Ferrell), and his beautiful assistant (Anna Friel), stumble, along with a wacky tour guide (Danny McBride), upon an alternate world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey men, and reptilian humanoids called Sleestaks. Review: Ladies and gentlemen- this...

Review: Up

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner), and his wife Ellie always dreamed of becoming explorers, like their idol Charles Muntz (voiced by Christopher Plummer). As it often does, life got in the way, and the two were never able...

Review: Night at Museum 2

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Several years after the events of the first film, former Museum of Natural History security guard, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is now a successful entrepreneur. When the museum’s exhibits are shipped to the Smithsonian, along with the tablet that...

Review: Limits of Control

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: A mysterious assassin (Isaach De Bankolé) wanders through Spain, while preparing for his next assignment. Review: Jim Jarmusch is nothing if not pretentious. That’s not to say he’s a bad director- far from it. At his best, he’s able...

Review: Terminator Salvation

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: In the not too distant future, a nuclear holocaust caused by the Skynet supercomputer has all but annihilated humanity. The survivors, led by John Connor (Christian Bale) are forced to battle super-sophisticated machines, sent out by Skynet- which intends...

Review: Angels & Demons

Posted 17 years ago

PLOT: On the eve of a papal election, Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), is summoned to the Vatican to solve an Illuminati plot involving four kidnapped cardinals, and a stolen supply of destructive anti-matter. REVIEW: Here we go again…...

Review: Star Trek

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: In this reboot of the STAR TREK franchise, we’re reintroduced to the U.S.S Enterprise, and it’s crew, including all the old favorites- Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Uhura, & Scotty. Review: Throughout most of my teenage years, I was...

Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Ladies man Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) goes home for his brother’s wedding, and one of the bridesmaids (Jennifer Garner), happens to be an old flame-who still carries a torch for him. Unwilling to settle down, Mead is visited by...

Review: Wolverine

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: James Logan aka Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), and his half-brother, Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), are born with mutations that make them virtually invincible. Throughout the years, Creed & Logan serve in the Civil War, both World Wars, finally ending up...

Review: The Soloist

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: A cynical newspaper columnist, Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) befriends a schizophrenic, homeless musician, Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), who was once a star pupil at Julliard. Based on a true story. Review: THE SOLOIST was a whole lot better...

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