Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,009 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

Finch Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: In a post-apocalyptic future, a terminally ill scientist (Tom Hanks) creates a robot (Caleb Landry Jones) to care for his beloved dog, Goodyear, once he passes away. REVIEW: For Finch, comparisons to Cast Away are inevitable. The films are...

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WTF Really Happened to Heat (1995)?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris With its epic scale, star power, and heart-stopping action, filmmaker Michael Mann’s 1995 crime-thriller Heat cemented its status as a certified classic. Al Pacino’s hard-boiled detective and Robert De Niro’s career criminal at the center of the story were...

Will David Heyman be hired to produce the James Bond franchise, and will he choose Alfonso Cuarón to direct the next film?

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James Bond: Best Action Scenes – James Bond Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

Chris A list of James Bond’s Best Action scenes is tough to whittle down. What’s a James Bond movie without a few really top-shelf action setpieces. Even as far back as the first James Bond film, Dr. No, the folks...

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Charlie’s Angels (TV Series) – Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 5 years ago

Chris In this episode of Gone But Not Forgotten, we dig into one of the biggest shows of the seventies, Charlie’s Angels. While it’s easy to roll your eyes at the property given all of the failed sequels and reboots...

Movie News

Rocky IV: Stallone regrets killing Apollo

Posted 5 years ago

If you’re a Sylvester Stallone fan (and we’re pretty huge ones here at JoBlo), you’ll know that he’s been working on a radical re-edit of Rocky IV, titled Rocky Vs Drago, which is premiering in theatres (courtesy of Fathom events)...

Movie Reviews

Last Night in Soho Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Thomasin McKenzie) obsessed with the British Invasion era sixties, travels to London to attend fashion design school. She rents a room in Soho that once belonged to an aspiring singer (Anya Taylor-Joy) and finds herself living...

Movie Reviews

Army of Thieves Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: As zombies wreak havoc in Nevada, in Germany, Ludwig Dieter (Matthias Schweighofer) works as a bank clerk by day, posting obnoxious Youtube videos about his safecracking prowess by night. When a mysterious woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) contacts him with an...

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WTF Happened to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at troubled productions, curious creative decisions, box-office failures, surprising successes, and cult favorites! Plenty of movies have challenging productions, but not many can claim they ended the career...

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The Princess Bride (1987) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 5 years ago

Chris What makes a classic? How do you somehow create a perfect film? Is it luck, talent, or just meant to be? When people think about perfect movies there aren’t that many usually that can be thought of. But typically,...

Movie News

Rust: Guns and ammunition recovered from the set as the investigation continues

Posted 5 years ago

UPDATE: The Santa Fe Sheriff on Wednesday revealed that three guns and 500 rounds of ammunition had been recovered from the set of Alec Baldwin’s upcoming Western feature Rust. It’s also been reported that the suspected shell casing for the...

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