Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,020 Articles Published

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: 17 Again

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Mike O’Donnell (Zac Efron) seemingly has it all- popularity, good looks, a beautiful girlfriend, and a lock on a basketball scholarship that will land him at a top flight university. On the eve of the big game, his girlfriend...

Review: State of Play

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: When a popular congressman’s aide/ mistress dies mysteriously, an intrepid reporter (Russell Crowe) – who happens to be best friends with the congressman in question (Ben Affleck), works to uncover the story behind her death. Review: I almost loved...

Review: Sunshine Cleaning

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: In order to pay her son’s tuition, thirty-something single mom, Rose (Amy Adams), and her irresponsible, younger sister Norah (Emily Blunt), start a crime scene clean-up service, which they name- Sunshine Cleaning. Review: In some ways, SUNSHINE CLEANING is...

Review: Crossing Over

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: A drama examining the issue of immigration, and the way it affects several people, including a burnt-out Immigration & Customs Enforcement agent (Harrison Ford), his Iranian-American partner (Cliff Curtis), an immigration lawyer (Ashley Judd), her adjudicator husband (Ray Liotta)-...

Review: Duplicity

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: Two former government spies (Clive Owen & Julia Roberts)- now involved with corporate espionage, plot an elaborate con against their respective bosses (Tom Wilkinson & Paul Giamatti). Review: DUPLICITY is writer/ director Tony Gilroy’s follow up to MICHAEL CLAYTON,...

Review: Miss March

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: After taking a nasty fall, recent high school graduate Tucker (Zach Cregger) slips into a coma. Four years later, he wakes up, having been abandoned by his family, and girlfriend Cindi (Raquel Alessi), with only his best buddy, perpetual...

Review: Witch Mountain

Posted 17 years ago

Plot: A Las Vegas cabbie (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) inadvertently becomes embroiled in an alien plot when he picks up two children that possess strange paranormal powers. Review: Like the recent BEDTIMES STORIES, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN is yet another...

Review: Watchmen

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: In an alternate 1985 where Richard Nixon is still president, and costumed crime fighting is outlawed, the murder of an ex-superhero sparks a series of events that threatens to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust. Review: I’m a...

Review: Fired Up

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Two horny high-schoolers, Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto) & Nick (Eric Christian Olson) skip out on football camp, opting to enroll in cheerleading camp- where they figure they’ll be able to score with dozens of available cheerleaders. Review: FIRED UP feels...

Review: Gomorrah

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: An inside look at modern organized crime in Naples. Review: GOMORRAH is a film many expected to be a shoe-in for best foreign film at the Oscars this year- but despite major success at both the Cannes & Toronto...

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