Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,007 Articles Published

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

Joker vs Taxi Driver – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Our first explosive FACE-OFF episode of 2023 takes a look at two bleak depictions of societal breakdowns, political issues and misplaced heroism through the perspective of seriously damaged anti-heroes. Both Taxi Driver and Joker stand as memorable psychological thrillers...

JoBlo Originals

Vecna (Stranger Things) vs Freddy Krueger: Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris When it comes to being the Dream Master, only one entity can wear the crown. Back in 1984, Wes Craven created the ultimate dream boogeyman with Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare On Elm Street. Freddy was revealed to be...

Horror Movie Reviews

M3GAN Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A robotics engineer invents a robotic doll that develops a (murderous) mind of her own. REVIEW: Hollywood loves a killer doll. Think about some of the great ones, like Fats from Magic, Chucky – of course – and add...

Movie News

Black Adam post-mortem reveals Ezra Miller’s Flash could continue in the new DC Universe

Posted 4 years ago

A new bombshell report from Variety that examines how Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson might have made an ultimately unsuccessful bid to have a significant role in the DCEU unearthed a few surprising details. One of the most shocking is...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Losin’ It?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Pop quiz – what’s the most obscure Tom Cruise movie? If you’re thinking Lions for Lambs or maybe Far and Away, or even my beloved All the Right Moves, you’re wrong. Tom Cruise’s most obscure movie ever is, without...

JoBlo Originals

Gremlins: Where It Was Made + Zach Galligan Interview

Posted 4 years ago

Chris As we round out the Christmas season just before everyone goes back to work, we take a trip through some of the locations for one of the greatest holiday movies of all time, 1984’s Joe Dante classic, Gremlins. In...

Movie News

Top 10 Best Movies of 2022

Posted 4 years ago

2022 was a year that Hollywood struggled to get audiences back in theaters, with many great films going unseen due to changing habits as a result of the pandemic. However, some films, including the year’s top grossing movie, Top Gun:...

JoBlo Originals

Quantum of Solace vs Spectre – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris With the triumphant return of Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, there is no better time to look back at the actor’s long tenure as Agent 007, aka super-suave spy James Bond. His license to kill lasted...

JoBlo Originals

Get Out vs Us – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris With only two movies under his belt and Nope on the horizon, Jordan Peele has proven himself to be one of the most fascinating voices within the horror genre. And if you had said that seven or eight years ago, most...

JoBlo Originals

Die Hard (1988) vs Lethal Weapon (1987) – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Let’s settle this debate once and for all; despite what anyone says, 1988’s Die Hard is most definitely a Christmas movie. It may be the greatest Christmas movie ever, although there are more challengers to the throne than you...

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