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 Savages

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: Two self-absorbed, middle aged siblings- Wendy & Jon Savage (Laura Linney & Philip Seymour Hoffman) are forced to care for their elderly, estranged father Lenny (Philip Bosco) when he begins to suffer from dementia. Review: I went into THE...

Review: Atonement

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: On the eve of the Second World War, an upper class English family is torn apart when the youngest daughter Briony (Saoirse Ronan) falsely accuses a servant’s son, Robbie (James McAvoy) of raping her teenage cousin. Briony’s older sister,...

Review: Juno

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: Juno (Ellen Page), a sharp witted high school outcast, finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with her best friend, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera)- a high school track star with a penchant for orange tic tacks. She agrees...

Review: The Golden Compass

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: In a world parallel to ours, twelve year old Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is entrusted with a magical Golden Compass that has the power to change the world. The Magisterium- a nefarious organization that seeks to control all...

Movie Reviews

Review: Awake

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) – heir to a multi million dollar empire, finds himself awake during heart surgery due to a phenomenon called anesthetic awareness. He’s unable to communicate, but is fully conscious throughout the excruciatingly painful surgery. However,...

Review: I’m Not There

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: The life of Bob Dylan, interpreted through a series of vignettes featuring six actors- each of whom embodies a different aspect of his life and career. Review: I’M NOT THERE is a difficult film to pin down, much less...

Review: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: Two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman & Ethan Hawke) is need of money hire an underworld associate to rob their parents’ jewelry store. The job goes awry, and the gunman not only gets himself killed, but also mortally wounds their...

Review: Mr. Magorium Wonder Emporium

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) is the 243 year old owner of the Wonder Emporium, a magical toy store. Molly Mahoney (Natalie Portman) is his shy and insecure store manager. When Magorium decides to bequeath his toy store to Molly,...

Review: No Country for Old Men

Posted 19 years ago

PLOT: Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin)- a Texas welder, out hunting Antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a drug related massacre- where he finds a truckload of heroin, and a satchel full of cash. He impulsively grabs the cash- and...

Review: The Martian Child

Posted 19 years ago

Plot: David (John Cusack), a recently widowed science fiction writer, adopts a precocious six year old. The child, Dennis (Bobby Coleman), is convinced he’s a Martian. Hi jinx ensue. The film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by David Gerrold,...