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

Halloween (1978) vs Friday the 13th (1980) – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris They’re two of the most infamous, championed, and bloodiest American slasher movies of their era. Not only that, but they’re also the most franchisable, with a total of 25(!) entries, including originals, sequels, reboots, and remakes between the two...

TV News

Barbara Walters – iconic TV personality – dead at 93

Posted 4 years ago

Some pretty sad news to report as we wrap up 2022, as iconic TV journalist Barbara Walters, one of the most celebrated on-air personalities ever, has died at ninety-three. ABC News, her former employer, announced the news via Twitter. No...

Movie Reviews

White Noise Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A neurotic academic (Adam Driver) and his wife (Greta Gerwig), who live with their extended brood in a 1980’s college town, share an unhealthy preoccupation with death. When an “airborne toxic event” contaminates their town, their obsession is exacerbated,...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Mariah Carey?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Whenever the holiday season approaches, you can rely on one thing – but by the time New Year’s rolls around, you will have heard Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” more times than you can count....

JoBlo Originals

Trading Places (1983) Revisited: One of the Best 80s Comedies?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Trading Places remains a highlight in the careers of stars Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis. A riff on the timeless Prince and the Pauper tale, it was a smash hit in the summer of 1983, ranking...

JoBlo Originals

Surviving the Game (1994): The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 4 years ago

Chris 1994’s Surviving the Game is one of the unheralded gems of nineties action flicks. It stars Ice-T, many years before he became part of the cast of Law & Order SVU. Back then, he was known primarily as a...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Really Happened to 127 Hours?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In April 2003, Aron Ralston left his home in Aspen, Colorado and drove five hours to the Canyonlands of Moeb, Utah. It was here where his relatively casual day of hiking turned into a devastating fight for survival when...

Movie News

Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation: 5 Movies & Where to Find Them

Posted 4 years ago

If you’re a film fanatic, one book that’s absolutely worth checking out is Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation (buy it here). On the brilliant Video Archives podcast (which you really should be listening to), Tarantino downplays the autobiographical nature of the...

Knock at the Cabin interviews: we talk to director M. Night Shyamalan and a few of the film's cast members about the new thriller

Movie Trailers

Knock at the Cabin: new trailer for M. Night Shymalan’s thriller

Posted 4 years ago

Universal Pictures left us a little something special under the tree this year, with the studio dropping the all-new, full-length trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin. This is the first real look at the film, following the...

JoBlo Originals

The Santa Clause vs The Santa Clause 2: Face-Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In 1994, TV star Tim Allen became a bona fide movie star by nabbing the lead role in The Santa Clause, directed by John Pasquin. Allen plays Scott Calvin, an ordinary man who, in a bizarre twist of fate,...

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