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: The Longshots

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Ice Cube plays Curtis Plummer, a washed up ex- football quarterback who takes his eleven year old niece, Jasmine (Keke Palmer), under his wing when he discovers she possesses a natural talent for the game. She eventually ends up...

Review: The Rocker

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Back in the eighties, Robert “Fish” Fishman (Rainn Wilson) was the drummer for the hair metal band Vesuvius. Just before the band hit the big time, Fish got the boot- and twenty years later, he still dreams of one...

Movie Reviews

Review: The Clone Wars

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: In this CGI prequel to REVENGE OF THE SITH, Anakin Skywalker must rescue Jabba the Hut’s infant son from the clutches of the dark side in order to secure Jabba’s political influence for the alliance. Review: OH, THE HUMANITY!!!...

INT: Robert Englund

Posted 18 years ago

Robert Englund is one of the true modern icons of horror comparable to Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi. As Freddy Krueger- he was responsible for me wetting the bed more than once as a child- so I was...

Review: Jack Brooks

Posted 18 years ago

PLOT: As a boy, young Jack Brooks had to watch helplessly as his family was slaughtered by a hideous monster. Since then, Jack (Trevor Matthews) has grown up to be a fairly aimless young man- who suffers from bouts of...

Review: Bottle Shock

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: In 1976, Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman), an English wine expert living in France- traveled to Napa Valley to learn about Californian wine. Amazed at the quality of these American wines, Spurrier organized a blind taste test- pitting the new...

Review: Tropic Thunder

Posted 18 years ago

PLOT: A group of actors – including fading action star Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), comedian Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), and method actor Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) – shooting a big budget war epic on location in the jungles of...

Review: Pineapple Express

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: When not getting high, Dale Denton (Seth Rogan) works as a process server. One night, while delivering a subpoena, Dale accidentally witnesses a murder by drug lord Ted Jones (Gary Cole) & his crooked cop henchwoman (Rosie Perez). Dale...

Review: Swing Vote

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: When his vote does not get registered due to an electronic malfunction, the United States Presidential election is left in the hands of Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner), an unemployed single father from a small town in New Mexico. Review:...

Review: Ex- Drummer

Posted 18 years ago

PLOT: Three handicapped psychopaths form a band, and ask famous author Dries (Dries Van Hegan), to join their band as a drummer. He accepts, as he plans to use them as characters in his next book. REVIEW: Basically, if you...

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