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

Ninja III: The Domination – Revisiting a Ninja Classic with Director Sam Firstenberg

Posted 4 years ago

Chris What do you get if you take The Exorcist, cross it with Flashdance and then add some Ninjas for good measure? The answer, of course, is you get the Cannon Films cult classic Ninja III: The Domination. This was...

JoBlo Originals

The Karate Kid: WTF You Need To Know About This Franchise

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The Karate Kid has to be one of the most unexpectedly massive franchises of all time. In 1984, John G. Avildsen’s The Karate Kid was a modestly budgeted underdog story (in the Rocky mode) featuring two unknown leads, Ralph...

JoBlo Originals

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Lord of War

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

JoBlo Originals

Django Unchained vs Inglourious Basterds: Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris It goes without saying that Quentin Tarantino is one of the most exciting and brilliant writer-directors living today. Since he broke big all the way back in 1992, cinephiles anticipate new Tarantino movies like the way sneakerheads await new...

TV Trailers

The Witcher Blood Origin: full trailer and key art revealed at CCXP

Posted 4 years ago

In another huge reveal coming out of Brazil’s CCXP (Comic Con Experience), Netflix dropped the full trailer for their upcoming four-part limited series, The Witcher: Blood Origin, which makes its debut on December 25th. The series stars Michelle Yeoh, Sophia...

JoBlo Originals

Guillermo del Toro vs Peter Jackson: Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Every movie director, no matter how much of an auteur they are in their own right, with their own visual style and flair, will have taken some inspiration from the generation before them in order to completely find their...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Fred Durst?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris If you came of age in the late nineties/early 2000s, you knew Limp Bizkit. You may have loved them or hated them – they were that kind of band…but whatever the case, you for sure knew who they were....

Movie News

Sight and Sound poll reveals the 100 Greatest Films of All Time for 2022

Posted 4 years ago

It’s that magical time that comes along every decade when Sight and Sound posts the results of its 100 Greatest Films of All Time poll, so sharpen your tongues and get ready to throw hands at your fellow movie buffs...

TV News

Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power: major recasting announced for Orc villain

Posted 4 years ago

When Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power, returns for season two, it will do so with one of the major villain roles recast. Joseph Mawle, who played the Orc leader Adar, will not be returning, with...

JoBlo Originals

The Karate Kid: Where It Was Made

Posted 4 years ago

Chris With the amazing success of Cobra Kai on Netflix, The Karate Kid is back in the cultural zeitgeist in a big way. People love John G. Avildsen’s classic underdog tale of a young man (Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso) and...

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