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

Zack Snyder’s Watchmen: revisiting the controversial adaptation

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Dark and dystopic superhero films have come and gone throughout the years–some with more edge, like Logan, and some with a little more humor, like Super. Yet they all owe a little bit to the famous graphic novel which...

Devotion, trailer, Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell

Movie Reviews

Devotion Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: During the Korean War, Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors), one of the first black Naval aviators, and his wingman, Tom Hudner (Glen Powell), become close friends, with a deadly mission eventually proving their unfailing devotion to each other. REVIEW: In...

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WTF Happened to Pitch Black?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Back in 2000, Vin Diesel was mostly unknown. Sure, he had an excellent role in Saving Private Ryan as the kindhearted but doomed soldier pinned down by sniper fire, but otherwise, he was pretty obscure. That changed when Pitch...

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Legend: Tom Cruise’s epic fantasy revisited

Posted 4 years ago

Chris 1986 was a big year for Tom Cruise, with Tony Scott’s Top Gun cementing his status as the era’s biggest star. Yet, earlier that year, Universal released a delayed Tom Cruise epic that actually carried a heftier price tag...

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Ford v Ferrari: WTF Really Happened to this Movie?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Ford v Ferrari was a surprise hit in the fall of 2019. At the time, many assumed that big-budget, adult-skewing dramas were bound to underperform, but James Mangold’s film rode a way of outstanding reviews and good buzz to...

Movie News

Indiana Jones 5: new images and plot revealed

Posted 4 years ago

Fresh off Empire’s first look at Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones 5 via this month’s cover comes a batch of new images giving us a clear look at Ford’s older Indy, plus Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook’s characters. Looking at...

JoBlo Originals

The Addams Family vs Addams Family Values – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris They’re creepy and they’re kooky. Mysterious and spooky. Okay, we’re not gonna recite the whole thing, but you know their theme and love ‘em. They’re the Addams Family: an utterly bizarre, aristocratic family who, underneath their macabre appearance, is...

Heat 2, Micheal Mann, sequel novel, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro

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Robert De Niro vs Al Pacino – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Over the years, cinema has featured multiple actors who share so much chemistry that they wind up appearing in several movies together. The late 60s and early 70s saw Paul Newman and Robert Redford team up for timeless roles...

Movie Reviews

She Said Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: New York Times journalists Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) try to break the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault story but are met with opposition from the vast network of silence and intimidation that protected the former...

Mark Pellington, the director of Arlington Road and The Mothman Prophecies, has signed on for the revenge thriller Mom

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Interview: Mark Pellington on Going All the Way, Arlington Road’s lost ending and more!

Posted 4 years ago

Chris We all had COVID-19 isolation projects. I learned to cook. Director Mark Pellington, on the other hand, decided to go back and radically recut his first movie, Going All the Way, which starred a young Ben Affleck, Rachel Weisz,...

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