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!

JoBlo Originals

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Revisited: Superhero Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Pop quiz – what’s the worst superhero movie of all time? Batman & Robin? Catwoman? X-Men: The Last Stand? Not even close. Long before the batsuit got nipples and Bret Ratner decided to make the X-Men totally hardcore, the...

Movie Reviews

Call Jane (Sundance) Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A pregnant suburban housewife (Elizabeth Banks) in 1968 Chicago is told by her doctor that she’ll likely die if she continues with her pregnancy. Desperate to get an abortion, she’s hampered by red tape until she discovers an underground...

Movie Reviews

Lucy and Desi (Sundance) Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A documentary exploring the careers of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, from their early years as the “Queen of the B’s” and a bandleader, respectively, to their eventual rise to fame on I Love Lucy. REVIEW: Now, this is...

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You Can’t Do That On Television (1979-1990): Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Everyone always associates the kids’ TV channel Nickelodeon with slime, but do you know how the association began? In fact, slime was a trademark of their first big hit show, You Can’t Do That On Television, a low-budget Canadian...

JoBlo Originals

Total Recall (1990) vs Total Recall (2012): Original vs Remake

Posted 5 years ago

Chris In 1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger took a hyper-violent hallucinatory head trip to Mars with the sci-fi action blockbuster Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven. It became an instant classic, and one of Arnie’s biggest hits. More than two decades later,...

when you finish saving the world Sundance review

Movie Reviews

When You Finish Saving the World (Sundance) Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A worker at a domestic violence shelter (Julianne Moore) has trouble relating to her internet-influencer musician son, Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard) and seeks out a surrogate son to mentor. REVIEW: When You Finish Saving the World marks the directorial debut...

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WTF Happened to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Scott Pilgrim vs the World was supposed to be a mega-hit. Director Edgar Wright’s adaptation of the cult graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley the film starred the up-and-coming (at the time) Michael Cera as the titular character....

Movie News

Meat Loaf: Iconic rock star and actor dead at 74

Posted 5 years ago

Meat Loaf, the iconic rock star whose debut album, Bat Out of Hell, still ranks as one of the top five highest-selling albums of all time (43 million copies), is dead at 74. According to Deadline, no official cause of...

Movie News

Sundance 2022 Preview: What we’re looking forward to seeing

Posted 5 years ago

The time has come – another edition of the Sundance Film Festival is set to begin. We here at JoBlo will be covering the festival, bringing you reviews of all the biggest titles to emerge from the festival. Sadly, due...

JoBlo Originals

Time Bandits (1981) Revisited – Fantasy Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Fantasy can be an escape for many of us when it comes to the movies. It’s a genre that’s wide open to all sorts of ideas and imagination. That’s really what the genre is all about actually, imagination and...

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