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

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) vs The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)- Original Vs Remake

Posted 4 years ago

Chris When it comes to horror movie icons, Leatherface might be head (or face) and shoulders above the rest. What makes him stand apart from the likes of Freddy, Jason, Chucky, and other slashers is the fact that he’s just...

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Home Alone vs Home Alone 2: Lost in New York- Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The pantheon of great Christmas movies was changed forever in 1990 with the release of the seminal film, Home Alone. Written By John Hughes, Directed by Chris Columbus, and scored by John Williams, the talent behind the camera is just legendary....

Movie Reviews

Babylon Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: At the dawn of the sound era, a tawdry collection of people working in silent films must reckon with their rapidly changing fortunes as the talkies, and a new strict morality, become commonplace. REVIEW: Within the first ten minutes...

Movie Reviews

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) travels to a remote island in Greece to solve a murder involving a reclusive tech billionaire (Edward Norton). REVIEW: Knives Out will probably become one of TIFF’s biggest success stories. Considered a risky gamble...

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WTF You Need to Know: The Home Alone Franchise

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The Home Alone series is pretty beloved. Well, maybe not all of them, but the first two are considered Christmas classics by pretty much everyone. In the week leading up to Christmas, it’s hard not to come across the...

Movie Reviews

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: The life of Whitney Houston (Naomi Ackie), from her early days as an up-and-comer to her eventual run as a superstar and drug-fuelled decline. REVIEW: I Wanna Dance with Somebody is a mixed bag as far as music biopics...

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WTF Happened to A Christmas Story?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Last week, we looked at WTF Happened to the cast of A Christmas Story in a special yuletide edition of WTF Happened to this Celebrity. This week, we’re digging back into Bob Clark’s 1983 classic, A Christmas Story, and...

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The Best Movie You Never Saw: Go

Posted 4 years ago

Chris THE STORY: Over the course of one Christmas Eve, a disparate group of twenty-somethings deal with drug deals gone wrong, touchy-feely cops, bad drugs trips, angry gangsters, dead-end minimum wage jobs and a whole lot of angst. THE PLAYERS:...

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Revisited – Better than the Original?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Poor Kevin McCallister. After having been left Home Alone by his parents, just a year later, they did it again – and this time, he’s in New York City! Luckily, he has his dad’s credit cards, making this sequel,...

Interviews

Yellowstone 1923: Interviews with James Badge Dale, Marley Shelton & more

Posted 4 years ago

Last night, Taylor Sheridan’s latest addition to the Yellowstone universe, 1923, made its much-anticipated debut on Paramount Plus. Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford star in this two-season limited series focusing on the Dutton family as they try to maintain their...

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