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: Flash of Genius

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: In this true story, Greg Kinnear plays Bob Kearns, a college professor who, in the sixties, came up with the intermittent wind shield wiper. He took his invention to Ford Motors and the company- rather than allow him to...

Review: Nick & Norah

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Nick (Michael Cera), a sensitive high school student/ indie rocker, has recently been dumped by his girlfriend. One night, while playing a gig with his band- The Jerk Offs, he runs into Norah (Kat Dennings), another sensitive indie rocker...

Review: Miracle at St. Anna

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: In WW2, four soldiers from the all-black 92nd Infantry Division get trapped in a small Tuscan village, when one of the soldiers, Train (Omar Benson Miller) risks his life to save a small Italian boy that survived the Nazi...

Review: Ghost Town

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: After dying for several minutes during a colonoscopy, a pompous dentist, Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) gains the ability to communicate with ghosts, all of whom want him to help them complete unfinished business with the living. One ghost in...

Review: Blindness

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: An epidemic of mass blindness hits an un-named city causing chaos & confusion. The afflicted are housed in a decrepit sanitarium, but as the number of infected grows, the newly blind are forced to fend for themselves. Eventually they...

Review: Righteous Kill

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Detectives Turk (Robert De Niro) & Rooster (Al Pacino) are on the trail of a serial killer who’s been knocking off some of the worst criminals in the city. Eventually- it becomes clear that the killer is a cop,...

Review: Babylon A.D

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: In the distant future- a mercenary (Vin Diesel) is hired to transport a mysterious young woman (Melanie Thierry) from Russia to the U.S- while being pursued by a murderous religious cult. Review: BABYLON A.D is a mess. I can’t...

Review: Traitor

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Samir Horn (Don Cheadle), a former special forces operative & devout Muslim, becomes part of a terrorist cell while serving time for selling arms in Yemen. Upon his escape, his actions bring him to the attention of the F.B.I-...

Review: Hamlet 2

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan), a failed, untalented actor- works as a drama coach in a Tuscon, AZ high school. When he finds out his beloved drama department is being shut down, Marschz tries to save the day by writing...

Review: Death Race

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: After being framed for the murder of his wife, ex-racer Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) is forced by a corrupt prison warden (Joan Allen), to compete in the savage death race – a three day event that has become a...

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