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!

Interviews

Interview: Diane Kruger & Kiernan Shipka talk Swimming With Sharks

Posted 4 years ago

As far as Hollywood satires go, 1994’s Swimming With Sharks ranks as one of the most savage. It’s the story of an idealistic wanna-be exec (Frank Whalley) who goes to work for an abrasive, cruel mogul (Kevin Spacey), only to...

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WTF Happened to Wayne’s World (1992)?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Saturday Night Live has often tried to turn popular sketches into movies. Sometimes this notion works and sometimes it doesn’t. It all started back in 1992 when Mike Myers and Dana Carvey’s Wayne and Garth got a big screen...

Interviews

The Northman Interview: Alexander Skarsgård

Posted 4 years ago

A few weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to do something amazing – attend the London premiere of The Northman. Admittedly, I loved the movie. It has everything I enjoy in a good historical yarn, from the easily digestible...

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Alien Nation TV Show: Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 4 years ago

Chris 1988’s Alien Nation was a sci-fi twist on the classic buddy cop formula. While only a modest hit, it did have some devoted fans (we covered it in a Best Movie You Never Saw), and the premise was gold....

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Rambo III (1988) Revisited: Sylvester Stallone Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In 1987, Sylvester Stallone’s arm-wrestling Cannon camp classic, Over the Top, was a box office bomb. This was a shock, as Stallone had had the number 2 and 3 highest-grossing movies of the year in 1985 and had Cobra...

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The Joker (Jack Nicholson vs Heath Ledger): Face-Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris With the recent return of the Dark Knight to the big screen in Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN, what better time to reassess two incarnations of Batman’s most formidable nemesis – the Joker? The character has been an iconic figure...

Movie News

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – What Did You Think?

Posted 4 years ago

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was supposed to be a triumphant return to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World for Warner Bros. The latter ambitiously outlined a five-film franchise for the developing saga. However, scandals and recasting have plagued the...

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: Knowing that his former love Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen), is looking to take control of the Wizarding World and declare war on the Muggles, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists the aid of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and his Fantastic...

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WTF Happened to Haley Joel Osment?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Being a child star isn’t easy. Once the cuteness wears off, the transition to adult star can be nearly impossible and gruelling. Hollywood is full of tragic stories of former child stars who flame out when they reach adulthood,...

Horror Movie Interviews

The Cellar Interviews: Elisha Cuthbert, Eoin Macken & Brendan Muldowney on their spooky thriller

Posted 4 years ago

One of the breakout horror hits at this year’s SXSW was Irish director Brendan Muldowney’s The Cellar. Based on his acclaimed short film, The Ten Steps, The Cellar is a change of pace for the director, who previously helmed the...

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Days of Thunder sequel locks June 2028 release date; Anne Hathaway joins Tom Cruise on the raceway

Posted 1 day ago

Tom Cruise is officially revving his engines for a Days of Thunder sequel in June 2028, with Anne Hathaway joining the cast!

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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

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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...