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

WTF Happened to John McTiernan?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris During the 1980s and ’90s, John McTiernan was the biggest director of the era. Not only did he direct everyone’s favorite Christmas movie of all time, 1988’s Die Hard, but he also made the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Predator, the...

JoBlo Originals

Labyrinth (1986) Revisited – Fantasy Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Jim Henson was made of magic. That magic spread throughout many of our childhoods with Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and more. Henson created creatures we’d never seen but within all of them was a humanity that shown through...

JoBlo Originals

Unboxing Hasbro’s Awesome Marvel Legends Iron Spider-Man Helmet

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Spider-Man: No Way Home hits theatres Thursday evening, and legions of fans are about to find out for themselves why it’s probably the biggest MCU movie since Avengers: Endgame and certainly the craziest Spider-Man movie ever made. With Christmas...

Movie Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: After having his secret identity revealed, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) turns to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for help, only for the wizard’s spell to pull in various foes from the multiverse, leading to a challenge Spider-Man could never have...

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Weekend Box Office

Box Office: West Side Story makes an underwhelming debut

Posted 5 years ago

Steven Spielberg’s much-hyped West Side Story had a disappointing start at the box office this weekend, opening to a mere $10.5 million, a disastrous number for a movie that cost $100 million-plus. In addition, the opening was below the mediocre...

Movie Reviews

National Champions Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: Just a few days before what’s supposed to be a career-defining game, star college quarterback LeMarcus James (Stephan James) and his best friend Emmett Sunday (Alexander Lugwig) go on strike. They refuse to play in the championship game to...

Movie Reviews

Being the Ricardos Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A peek behind the scenes of I Love Lucy, arguably the most popular sitcom of all time. The story occurs during an especially tumultuous week as Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) fights to keep the show together after being smeared...

Wyatt Russell thinks it's time for a remake of the 1984 film The Last Starfighter, with improved FX and a younger lead

JoBlo Originals

The Last Starfighter (1984) Revisited: Sci-Fi Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Greetings, Starfighter! Welcome to The Best Movie You Never Saw where, this week, we dive into one of the most revered cult classics of the 1980s, The Last Starfighter. Released in 1984, one year after Return of the Jedi...

Movie News

Daredevil: Charlie Cox is still the MCU’s choice to play the character

Posted 5 years ago

While we’re still going to have to wait a few weeks to find out whether or not Charlie Cox’s rumoured cameo as Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, happens in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel chief Kevin Feige says that if the...

Movie News

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – teaser debuts online, will be a two-part sequel

Posted 5 years ago

While the world is gearing up for the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, I imagine there’s a massive Spider-fan continent that’s just as excited about Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel. And now, Sony’s put the opening scene...

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