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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2022 Comic-Con Preview: everything we’ll be checking out!

Posted 4 years ago

2022 marks the return of Comic-Con – IN PERSON – at the San Diego Convention Center, and once again, JoBlo will be there (for the 20th year!) getting all of the scoops from the biggest and best panels. Keep your...

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Marlon Brando Tribute (1924-2004): We Remember

Posted 4 years ago

Chris As far as screen legends go, Marlon Brando sits at the top of the heap. To many, he’s considered legitimately the greatest actor of all time, with his performances in A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Wild...

The upcoming 4K and Blu-ray release of Risky Business from Criterion features the director's cut of the film, with a more downbeat ending

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Risky Business (1983) Revisited: The Tom Cruise Movie That Started It All

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Here at JoBlo, we’re pretty massive Tom Cruise fans. With Top Gun: Maverick officially the biggest hit of his career, the superstar is once again at the top of the Hollywood heap, being celebrated as perhaps the greatest movie...

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WTF Happened to Axl Rose?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris As far as rock stars go, they don’t get much bigger than Axl Rose. As the front-man of Guns N’ Roses, he became an instant legend when their debut album, “Appetite for Destruction” was released in 1987. Spawning hits...

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Where the Crawdads Sing Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a young woman who, after being abandoned by her family, has raised herself in a North Carolina marsh. She’s despised by most of her town, with them calling her “the Marsh Girl,” and when the...

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Confess, Fletch: Jon Hamm reboot sold to Showtime

Posted 4 years ago

In a move reminiscent of what just happened to the Chris Pine action flick, The Contractor, Deadline is reporting that Paramount Global Content Distribution has acquired all rights to the Jon Hamm Fletch reboot. The film, titled Confess, Fletch, will...

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WTF Happened to Watchmen?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie, we take a look at Zack Snyder’s divisive big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Hollywood tried for years to turn this into a film, with directors such as Paul Greengrass,...

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Wrong Place: exclusive clip featuring Bruce Willis

Posted 4 years ago

This Friday marks the release of one of the final films Bruce Willis shot before his retirement, Wrong Place, and today we’ve got an exclusive clip from the movie featuring its iconic star. In the film, Bruce plays ” a...

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Spider-Man (2002) Revisited: Marvel Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris While 2000’s X-Men was arguably the movie that made Marvel characters finally come to life on the big screen (after taking a backseat to DC for years), it was 2002’s Spider-Man, directed by Sam Raimi, that proved just how...

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Kick-Ass (2010) vs Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In today’s world, there seems to be no stopping the superhero and comic book genre, both on the silver screen and on streaming platforms. It also seems like the thirst for adult-only, mature content is at an all-time high....

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Every RoboCop Movie Ranked

Posted 1 day 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 24 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...