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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Movie Reviews

Minions: The Rise of Gru Review

Posted 4 years ago
PLOT: A young Gru (Steve Carrell) tries to join a group of super villains called The Vicious 6 but is kidnapped by a former member. Now, the Minions must rescue their beloved mini-boss. REVIEW: Here’s the thing – after four...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Amber Heard?

Posted 4 years ago
Chris Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, you’ve probably had your fill of the name Amber Heard. The court case between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp played out in all of its Livestream infamy recently...
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Movie Reviews

The Forgiven Review

Posted 4 years ago
The Forgiven was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2021 coverage. PLOT: A couple, David & Jo (Ralph Fiennes & Jessica Chastain), are visiting Morocco to participate in a debauched weekend of excess hosted at a friend’s desert manor....

JoBlo Originals

Runaway Train (1985) Revisited: Action Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago
Chris If you’re a fan of eighties action movies, you know The Cannon Group. Run by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, in the eighties they cranked out a slew of low-budget action movies, most of which were hated...
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JoBlo Originals

Venom (2018) vs Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago
Chris Say what you will about Sony, but they are nothing if not determined. After all these years, they still hold the cinematic rights to the Spider-Man franchise as well as all the webhead’s ancillary characters, and boy, have they...
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Pop Culture

R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison

Posted 4 years ago
R&B singer R. Kelly, who was once one of the highest-selling musicians in the world, has just been handed a thirty-year jail sentence in federal court for sex trafficking and racketeering. In recent years Kelly had become infamous for his...

TV News

Quantum Leap: reboot gets a fall 2022 launch date

Posted 4 years ago
One moment that scarred me for life as a kid was the series finale of Quantum Leap. An avid watcher of the show, I fully expected Scott Bakula’s Dr. Sam Beckett to leap home in the finale, but it was...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Battleship (2012)?

Posted 4 years ago
Chris You sunk my Battleship! That’s probably what the executives at Universal Pictures were thinking the weekend Battleship, Peter Berg’s megabudget adaptation of the board game, opened in theaters. Costing a massive $200 million, Battleship was meant to kick off...
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Argo (2012) – WTF Really Happened to this Movie?

Posted 4 years ago
Chris Ben Affleck’s Argo was a runaway hit in 2012. His highly anticipated follow-up to The Town, it finally won Affleck the respect from his peers that he always deserved, with it earning a Best Picture Oscar, despite the man...
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