Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,008 Articles Published

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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My Secret Identity TV Series (1988-91): Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 4 years ago

Chris If you grew up in Canada during the 1980s and 90s, you remember a channel called YTV. Earlier on Gone But Not Forgotten, we dug into a staple of YTV, You Can’t Do That on Television, which became our...

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Let’s be honest — when we were younger, we enjoyed movies and television shows chock full of martial arts action because we wanted to learn various ways to torture our siblings. If we could master a brand new kick...

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WTF Happened to Dungeons & Dragons (2000)?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Next year, Paramount Pictures is going to try and turn Dungeons & Dragons into the next huge fantasy franchise. Indeed, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has it all – a huge budget, a cast of stars (including Chris...

Horror Movie Interviews

Interview: Viggo Mortensen & Léa Seydoux on Crimes of the Future

Posted 4 years ago

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future is being hailed as a return to form for the genre maestro. His first “body horror” in decades, it stars Viggo Mortensen as a performance artist in the future who can grow new body...

Harry Potter is being rebooted as a TV series on HBO and HBO Max, and filming on the show is now underway in the UK!

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) Revisited: Fantasy Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The latest addition to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, landed with a bit of a thud when it opened in theaters last month. The only J.K. Rowling-affiliated movie to fall short of the $100...

Horror Movie Interviews

Crimes of the Future: David Cronenberg & Scott Speedman Interview

Posted 4 years ago

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future hit theaters last Friday, and as expected, fans of the genre maestro have come out in force for his return to “body horror.” The film apparently inspired some walkouts at Cannes, but our critic...

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Paul Schrader slams American Gigolo TV series

Posted 4 years ago

If you follow Paul Schrader on Facebook, you’ll know that the famed writer-director does not shy away from a controversial opinion or two or mince words regarding his Hollywood adventures. When it was revealed that his 1980 classic American Gigolo...

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Batman (1989) vs Batman Begins (2005) – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Batman will always be the most badass superhero ever; the solemn Dark Knight having perhaps the most compellingly tragic origin story of them all — and that’s including Superman’s home planet of Krypton blowing up. The guy doesn’t even...

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WTF Happened to Tom Sizemore?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Tom Sizemore is a tragic Hollywood tale. After bursting onto the scene in a variety of scene-stealing characters turns opposite Stallone in Lock-Up, Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57, and a cool bit part in Point Break, Sizemore quickly became...

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WTF Happened to X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix was supposed to be the movie that finally did justice to one of the comic’s most celebrated storylines, the Dark Phoenix Saga by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. It had already been done, to disastrous...

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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 1 day 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...