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

WTF Happened to Speed Racer (2008)?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris With the release of Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections, the Wachowskis are back in the limelight, with renewed attention on The Matrix franchise and some of their other, more neglected films (although Lilly Wachowski wasn’t involved with the new...

Movie Reviews

The 355 Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A betrayed CIA agent (Jessica Chastain) teams up with a crew of other female agents to stop a top-secret weapon from falling into the wrong hands. REVIEW: It didn’t take long for 2022 to have its first dud, and...

JoBlo Originals

Rocky IV (1985) Revisited – Action Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris 1985 was arguably the biggest year of Sylvester Stallone’s career. At the year-end box office, he had the 2nd and 3rd highest-grossing movies of the year. Rambo: First Blood Part II was in the second position, but right behind...

JoBlo Originals

Idiocracy (2006) Revisited – Comedy Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris In this week’s instalment of The Best Movie You Never Saw, we get in our wayback machine and head to the utopian year of 2006 to discuss Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. Hailed by many as one of the smartest dumb...

JoBlo Originals

Face-Off: Alien (1979) vs Aliens (1986)

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,...

Movie News

Will Arnett taking over Armie Hammer’s role in Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins

Posted 5 years ago

While Armie Hammer’s going to be seen on the big-screen shortly thanks to his role in Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile, Deadline is reporting that another of the under-fire actor’s roles is being completely reshot. Before the controversy that...

TV News

Betty White: Beloved Golden Girl dead at 99

Posted 5 years ago

Well, folks, here’s some very sad news to end 2021 with. TMZ is reporting that Betty White, perhaps one of the most beloved tv stars of all time, has passed away at age 99, just a few weeks shy of...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Naomi Watts?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Naomi Watts is widely considered one of the best actresses of her generation. Born in England but raised in Australia, Watts is a contemporary of close friend Nicole Kidman and made her American debut in the cult film Tank...

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Movie News

Edgar Wright watched a movie a day in 2021: here’s the list

Posted 5 years ago

Despite the fact that he had not one but two movies out in 2021, director Edgar Wright made a vow to watch a movie a day this year and almost made good. In the end, he was thirty-five movies shy...

Movie News

Holiday Box Office Update- Spider-Man: No Way Home huge, The Matrix Resurrections underperforming

Posted 5 years ago

According to a recent report by Deadline, Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to break records at the holiday box office, with its domestic gross now standing at $536 million, overtaking Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($532.1 million) and The...

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