Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Scarface (83 version), read more Heat, The Guns 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 shit ones, and of course, Tom Friggin' Cruise!

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Freddie Prinze Jr?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In the late nineties, Freddie Prinze Jr was one of Hollywood’s most popular teen heartthrobs. The son of the late legendary comic Freddie Prinze, the actor burst onto the scene with a slew of teen movies that made big...

Movie News

Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dead at 54

Posted 4 years ago

Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and the one-time wife of Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage, has passed away at only 54 years old. The musician had a major cardiac event early Thursday, which came...

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The Greatest American Hero: Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The Greatest American Hero is a show that’s much beloved by folks of a certain generation. If you grew up in the seventies or eighties, the theme song is instantly iconic. In fact, the track “Believe it or Not”...

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WTF Happened to Face/Off?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Face/Off ranks as the most universally acclaimed of director John Woo’s North American output. While Hard Target is a cult classic, and Broken Arrow was a solid hit, 1997’s Face/Off was the first time Woo got to really flex...

Movie Reviews

Plane Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: When a plane is forced to make an emergency landing on a island run by heavily armed insurgents, the heroic captain (Gerard Butler) must rely on an unlikely ally to save the passengers – a convicted murder (Mike Colter)...

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Clash of the Titans (1981) Revisited: Does the Ray Harryhausen classic hold up?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris 1981’s Clash of the Titans signals the end of an era. In the fifties, sixties and even part of the seventies, stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen was the guy you went to if you wanted to do a fantasy epic....

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990): Revisiting the Cult Classic

Posted 4 years ago

Chris If you were a kid during the spring of 1990, there was only one movie that mattered to you, and it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At the time, the world was in the grip of Turtle-Mania, with the...

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Robocop (1987) vs Robocop (2014): Face-Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris It’s safe to say a lot of lives were forever changed in 1987 with the release of ROBOCOP, led by Peter Weller in the titular role and directed by auteur Paul Verhoeven. The deliciously violent film was praised as...

JoBlo Originals

Let the Right One In vs Let Me In – Original vs Remake

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Vampires have done pretty big business in recent times with awesome ones seen in True Blood who like to screw, fight and drink blood to the not-so-awesome ones who sparkle in the sun like diamonds… ugh. One thing is...

Movie News

Borderlands: Tim Miller helming reshoots as Eli Roth preps Thanksgiving feature

Posted 4 years ago

Lionsgate is doing some damage control today following rumors that have been spreading online that Eli Roth has been fired for the much-anticipated Borderlands movie adaptation, with Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) replacing him. According to Deadline, Miller is...

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