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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WTF Happened to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze hit theatres almost exactly one year after its predecessor, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, hit theatres and became a surprise runaway hit, grossing $135 million at the box office. It...

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Kuffs (1992): The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Kuffs was Hollywood’s big attempt to turn Christian Slater into the next big action star. At the time, he was riding high, with Heathers, Pump Up the Volume and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves establishing him as one of...

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Daredevil (2003) Revisited: Is the Ben Affleck movie as bad as we remember?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris 2003’s Daredevil opened with a lot of hype. The buzz leading up to the film suggested it would be a gritty take on the character that writer-director Mark Steven Johnson promised would live up to some of the more...

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Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead vs Army of the Dead: Face-Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Zack Snyder. If you want to see the best and the worst of the internet, just type his name into the Twitter Search bar, press enter, and grab yourself some popcorn. Love him or hate him, the man definitely...

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Top Gun: Maverick has officially outgrossed Titanic

Posted 4 years ago

Top Gun: Maverick will undoubtedly go down as one of the post-pandemic era’s biggest success stories. Despite being bounced around the calendar for years due to Covid, the Top Gun sequel has gone on to become more successful than anyone...

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Prey: Jesse Ventura praises the Predator prequel

Posted 4 years ago

I think it’s safe to say that Hulu’s Predator prequel, Prey, is a big win for the franchise. After years of mostly disappointing follow-ups, people are finally excited about the franchise again. Among them is Jesse “The Body” Ventura, who...

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Quentin Tarantino: Jaws is the greatest movie ever made

Posted 4 years ago

Quentin Tarantino’s recently been making the rounds promoting his excellent new Video Archives Podcast with pal Roger Avary (his co-writer on Pulp Fiction and the director of The Rules of Attraction), and along the way, he’s been dropping some impressive...

A24 has unveiled a new poster for their upcoming slasher Bodies Bodies Bodies, starring Amandla Stenberg, Pete Davidson, and Lee Pace

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Bodies Bodies Bodies (Fantasia) Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A group of wealthy twenty-somethings take shelter during a hurricane at a palatial mansion owned by a friend’s parents. When one of them is brutally killed, they turn on each other, convinced one of their gang is a cold-blooded...

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WTF Happened to Jennifer Lawrence?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Let us preface this by saying that we know Jennifer Lawrence is still a massive star. After all, she’s got several movies coming out this year and, by all accounts, delivers an excellent performance in the TIFF-bound drama Causeway....

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Quentin Tarantino praises Top Gun: Maverick

Posted 4 years ago

Quentin Tarantino’s been making the rounds in the podcasting world, promoting his excellent new podcast with Roger Avary (Killing Zoe), “The Video Archives Podcast,” named after the legendary video store the two used to work at. Each episode is devoted...

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Every RoboCop Movie Ranked

Posted 24 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 22 hours ago

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 wanted...