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!

Movie Reviews

The Bubble Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: At the height of the pandemic, a group of actors fly to England to shoot a schlocky sci-fi movie but wind up stuck on a shoot that becomes a nightmarish loop of quarantine, re-shoots, hooking-up and drugs galore. REVIEW:...

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Ghostbusters (1984) vs Ghostbusters 2 (1989) – Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Most people probably wouldn’t know what to do, but we 80s kids know exactly where to turn when we’re bothered by a spook, ghost, or specter. Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS, of course. They are the supreme team to...

Movie Reviews

Morbius Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) seeks to cure his rare blood disease by injecting himself with the DNA of vampire bats. The plan works but also turns him into a blood-drinking superhuman. He can control his bloodlust, but the...

Interviews

Morbius: Matt Smith Interview

Posted 4 years ago

Matt Smith is one of the best in the biz. From Doctor Who to The Crown, he defies typecasting, and, in Morbius, he takes a step into super-villainy as the titular character’s best friend, Milo. Both he and Morbius (Jared...

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WTF Happened to Top Secret! (1984)?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris In 1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ) took the world by storm with the spoof of disaster films, Airplane. It utterly changed the genre overnight, with the laugh-a-minute style being tremendously influential. Rather than cash in...

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Movie Reviews

The Contractor Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: An involuntarily discharged special forces Sergeant (Chris Pine) becomes a private contractor for an elite unit with disastrous results. REVIEW: The Contractor is way better than you’d believe, given that it’s getting a low-key hybrid VOD/limited release, with a...

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Manimal (1983 TV Show) – Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 4 years ago

Chris “Dr. Jonathan Chase… wealthy, young, handsome. A man with the brightest of futures. A man with the darkest of pasts. From Africa’s deepest recesses to the rarefied peaks of Tibet, heir to his father’s legacy and the world’s darkest mysteries....

Interviews

Morbius: Jared Leto Interview

Posted 4 years ago

After several years of pandemic-related delays, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe entry Morbius finally hits theatres this weekend. Filming on this actually predates Spider-Man: No Way Home. However, the film has indeed been brought up to date within the popular Spider-Verse, and...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Really Happened to Rocky (1976)?

Posted 4 years ago

Chris A lot of people believe that Sylvester Stallone based his screenplay for Rocky on the career of journeyman boxer Chuck Wepner. In fact, a well-received movie with Liev Schreiber, Chuck, was made about this fact, and in this episode...

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James Cameron vs Steven Spielberg: Face Off

Posted 4 years ago

Chris As Steven Spielberg is currently enjoying a huge success with the excellent WEST SIDE STORY, critically if not so much commercially, we thought what better time to reassess the merits of one of cinema’s greatest living directors. Despite a minor...

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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 2 days ago

RoboCop ranked from worst to best, with all four movies revisited to see which entries still deliver and which ones miss the mark.

JoBlo Originals

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...