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!

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Die Hard With a Vengeance: Revisiting a Bruce Willis Classic

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Bruce Willis has been in the news lately, with his tragic Aphasia diagnosis and then the ghoulish news that he sold his likeness to a Deepfake company (which has since been debunked). In this episode of Revisited, we look...

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Dead for a Dollar: Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, & More Interviews!

Posted 4 years ago

Walter Hill’s Dead for a Dollar is the kind of movie they don’t make anymore. A rough and tumble Neo-western, despite a modest budget Hill’s assembled a strong Western programmer (read my review). He’s helped along by a top-shelf cast,...

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Jurassic Park: WTF You Need to Know About This Franchise

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow recently made headlines when he said Jurassic Park should have probably never become a franchise. Indeed, many consider Steven Spielberg’s 1993 masterpiece a seminal and singular work. Still, it was such a smash that...

Movie Reviews

The Greatest Beer Run Ever Review

Posted 4 years ago

The Greatest Beer Run Ever was reviewed at TIFF 2022 PLOT: In 1967 New York, Chickie Donohue (Zac Efron) is a merchant seaman frustrated by the negative attitude towards soldiers serving in Vietnam. At the urging of his favourite bartender,...

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Dead for a Dollar Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: In 1897, a veteran bounty hunter, Max Borlund (Christoph Waltz), is hired to find Rachel Price (Rachel Brosnahan), the wife of a businessman who’s supposedly been abducted by a black soldier, Elijah Jones (Brandon Scott) and is now being...

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WTF Happened to Billy Bob Thornton?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Billy Bob Thornton is an unlikely but enduring movie star. He blasted onto the scene as a character actor in movies like One False Move and Tombstone before his 1996 passion project, Sling Blade, earned him a best screenplay...

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Bros Interviews: Billy Eichner, Nicholas Stoller, Luke MacFarlane and more on this Judd Apatow-produced comedy

Posted 4 years ago

One of the most memorable experiences I had at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) this year was attending the world premiere of Bros. For those not in the know, this is the first mainstream LGTBQ romantic comedy financed by a...

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Revenge of the Ninja (1983) Revisited + Director Sam Firstenberg Interview

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Revenge of the Ninja is up there with the best American Martial Arts films ever made. Star Sho Kosugi had made a big impression in Cannon’s Enter the Ninja the year before, stealing the show from his (heavily doubled)...

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Blonde Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: An impressionistic depiction of the life of Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas), from her early days as Norma Jeane Mortenson to her eventual crowning as perhaps the biggest sex symbol of the 20th century. REVIEW: Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is...

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WTF Happened to Hollywood Homicide?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Hollywood Homicide came along during a lean time in Harrison Ford’s career. While What Lies Beneath had been a hit, the solo star vehicles the icon chose, including Random Hearts and K-19: The Widowmaker, were not connecting with audiences....

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The Whisper Man Review: Robert De Niro and Adam Scott hunt a serial killer in this thriller

Posted 2 days ago

Robert De Niro, Adam Scott and Michelle Monaghan star in the adaptation of the best-selling novel by Alex North.

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Every RoboCop Movie Ranked

Posted 18 hours ago

RoboCop ranked from worst to best, with all four movies revisited to see which entries still deliver and which ones miss the mark.

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Awesome Art’s Tribute to The Lord Of The Rings

Posted 16 hours ago

Chris Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...