Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,010 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

Hard to Kill (Steven Seagal): Reel Action

Posted 5 years ago

Chris I have a complicated relationship with the films of Steven Seagal. As a kid, I thought he was the greatest, and I went to see all of them in theatres. His aikido moves were badass, I dug his ponytail,...

Interviews

Daniel Craig & Rami Malek Interview: A James Bond fan’s dream come true

Posted 5 years ago

I’ve been working for JoBlo in some capacity or another since 2007. Since the day I started, I had one big dream, which was to somehow peek behind the curtain at a James Bond movie being filmed. Several Bond films...

JoBlo Originals

Joe Dante’s Explorers (1985): The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Chris They don’t make movies for kids like they used to. I know, that makes me sound really old, but the 1980s saw the release of more live action family fare from major studios than we have seen in the...

JoBlo Originals

Highlander The Series – Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Growing up, I was a massive fan of the movie Highlander. Something about the mixture of swordfights, history and the soundtrack by Queen really spoke to me, and it was a favourite I returned to over and over again....

The Carnage symbiote saves serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson) from execution in the latest clip from Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

Movie News

Venom: Let There Be Carnage: What Did You Think?

Posted 5 years ago

Sony’s latest addition to their Spider-Man universe, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, hits theatres today. While the reviews have been mixed at best, so far, the box office take is outstanding. Critics may not love these movies (the Rotten Tomatoes...

Horror Movie Reviews

Titane Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A female serial killer is impregnated by a car (yes, seriously). On the run from the cops, she poses as the long-lost son of a troubled fireman (Vincent Lindon), who’s desperate to believe his now-grown child has returned home....

Interviews

The Many Saints of Newark: Interviews w/ Gandolfini, Farmiga, Bernthal, Nivola & more

Posted 5 years ago

I really enjoyed Alan Taylor and David Chase’s The Many Saints of Newark. A prequel to The Sopranos, the film charts the downfall of gangster Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), a legendary but never seen figure on the TV series and...

JoBlo Originals

WTF Happened to Kevin Smith’s Clerks?

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! Kevin Smith’s enduring pop-culture prominence all started with a tiny 1994 film called Clerks. Armed...

Movie Reviews

The Many Saints of Newark Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: Years before running the mob in New Jersey, Anthony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) is a young man being raised in Newark, with his dad Johnny Boy (Jon Bernthal), a mob captain who doesn’t want his son involved in the family...

Movie Reviews

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his symbiote pal Venom are still trying to figure out how to live together when a death row inmate (Woody Harrelson) gets infected with a symbiote of his own, becoming the evil Carnage. REVIEW:...

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