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!

JoBlo Originals

Philip Seymour Hoffman Tribute (1967-2014): We Remember

Posted 5 years ago

Chris None of our generation’s character actors were quite as brilliant as Philip Seymour Hoffman. From his breakthrough in Jan de Bont’s Twister as the comic relief Dusty to his work with Paul Thomas Anderson and beyond, he was the...

Movie Reviews

Living (Sundance) Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A hopeless bureaucrat (Bill Nighy) working in post-war England discovers that he only has a few months to live. REVIEW: It’s a pretty daring move to remake Akira Kurosawa, but director Oliver Hermanus and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro have done...

TV News

1883: Yellowstone prequel star Gratiela Brancusi on Sam Elliott & cowboy camp

Posted 5 years ago

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1883 I’m a pretty hardcore fan of what Taylor Sheridan’s been doing on TV over the last few years. Yellowstone has, against all odds, become of the biggest hits on TV and...

JoBlo Originals

Rocky (1976) vs First Blood (1982) – Face Off

Posted 5 years ago

Chris FACE OFF: The JoBlo original series that puts two worthy foes in the ring for an epic clash! Whether it’s a pair of movies, actors, iconic characters, franchises, originals vs. remakes, directors, or whatever else we can think of,...

JoBlo Originals

House Party (1990) Revisited: Comedy Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Reginald Hudlin‘s 1990 comedy House Party was a massive sleeper success in 1990. Launching the careers of hip hop duo Kid N’ Play into the mainstream, as well as Martin Lawrence and the late, great Robin Harris, it was...

TV News

Howard Hesseman dead: WKRP & Head of the Class star was 81

Posted 5 years ago

It looks like yet another beloved eighties icon has passed on, with THR reporting that Howard Hesseman, who memorably played the iconic Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati and later starred in the sitcom Head of the Class, is...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Josh Hartnett?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Josh Hartnett was the biggest heartthrob of the late nineties. Bursting onto the scene in Robert Rodriguez’s The Faculty in 1998, his status was reaffirmed by Halloween H20 and Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. However, his career hit its...

JoBlo Originals

The Breakfast Club (1985) Revisited: Comedy Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris None of John Hughes’s films are quite as iconic as 1985’s The Breakfast Club. Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall play the teenage archetypes we know so well – the athlete, the rebel,...

TV Reviews

We Need to Talk About Cosby (Sundance) TV Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: Comic/filmmaker W. Kamau Bell explores the troubling legacy of the iconic Bill Cosby. REVIEW: The overall intent of Showtime’s new four-part doc, We Need to Talk About Cosby, is right there in the title. This isn’t an expose but...

Movie Reviews

Cha Cha Real Smooth (Sundance) Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A twenty-two-year-old college grad (Cooper Raiff) working as a bar mitzvah party starter strikes up a friendship with the young mother (Dakota Johnson) and an autistic girl (Vanessa Burghardt). REVIEW: Writer-director-actor Cooper Raiff is quickly becoming an indie darling....

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