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 Sarah Michelle Gellar?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Sarah Michelle Gellar was one of the biggest teen stars of the nineties. Fuelled by her star-making role as the lead on Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she won massive acclaim for her badass, emotional turn as the...

Horror Movie Reviews

Firestarter Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: Young Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) has a terrifying power – she can start fires with her mind. Often unable to control her ability, she ends up on the run with her telepathic father (Zac Efron) from a secret government...

Movie Reviews

Operation Mincemeat Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth), who came up with a wild scheme involving a dead body and false documents to disguise the Allied Invasion of Sicily in WW2. REVIEW: Operation Mincemeat is a different kind of...

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X-Men (2000) vs X2: X-Men United (2003): Face-Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The X-Men have come home, folks. Since Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the cinematic rights to our favorite merry mutants have reverted to Marvel Studios, who as we all know currently exist under the purview of ol’ Walt...

Movie Reviews

On the Count of Three Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: Two best friends (Jerrod Carmichael & Christopher Abbott) make a pact to end their lives, but first they decide to spend their last day tying up loose ends and settling a couple of scores. REVIEW: Suicide is a tough...

The King Kong of Skull Island universe of books will expand thanks to a new deal with World Builder Publishing

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WTF Happened to Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005)?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of King Kong came with sky high expectations from fans. After all, it was his follow-up to the Lord of the Rings, so audiences weren’t only expecting a good movie – they were expecting a...

The 1985 martial arts classic The Last Dragon is coming back to theatres to celebrate its 40th anniversary

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The Last Dragon (1985) Revisited + Exclusive Taimak Interview

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In 1985, Berry Gordy, a legend in the music industry as the genius behind Motown, turned his attention once again to the silver screen. He had already produced a number of films starring Diana Ross in the seventies, but...

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The Dark Knight (2008) Revisited: DC Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris As much as fans loved Matt Reeves’ noirish take on The Batman, ask many folks what the best ever big-screen Batman movie is, and they’ll answer Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. A legendary sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, this...

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Predator (1987) vs Alien (1979): Face-Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The Predator and the Alien. Two of the most fearsome creatures across the entire universe. In 1979, Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic, ALIEN, introduced audiences to the titular monster (affectionately referred to as a Xenomorph), forever creating a body-horror nightmare...

Movie Trailers

Avatar: The Way of Water trailer teases a trip back to Pandora

Posted 4 years ago

If you happened to be one of the many people who caught Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in theatres this weekend, you saw the first teaser trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water. Boasting amazing 3D...

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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

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...