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!

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Cyborg (1989) – Jean-Claude Van Damme (Reel Action)

Posted 5 years ago

Chris In 1989, Jean-Claude Van Damme was riding high off the unexpected success of Bloodsport. At the same time, The Cannon Group saw their fortunes declining fast after losing a ton of money on would-be blockbusters Lifeforce, Masters of the...

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James Bond Revisited: Top 10 James Bond Villains

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Even though we’re pretty much all caught up with the 007 movies here on James Bond Revisited, we figured we’d keep things going with a couple of James Bond TOP 10’s, and here’s our first list – THE TOP...

Clifford the Big Red Dog delayed

Posted 5 years ago

It looks like everyone's favorite giant, friendly red dog, Clifford, isn't quite ready for his big-screen debut. Despite being announced as a title for this year's Toronto International Film Festival, Paramount Pictures has opted to delay the planned September 17th...

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Goodfellas: WTF REALLY Happened to this Movie?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris WTF REALLY Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that dives into movies based on TRUE stories, REAL people, and ACTUAL historical events to separate FACT from FICTION! Director Martin Scorsese’s 1990 mob epic GOODFELLAS starring Robert De...

The Last Mercenary Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A case of mistaken identity forces a legendary French mercenary (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to return home and meet the son he was forced to abandon long ago. REVIEW: JCVD’s The Last Mercenary is most definitely not for everyone. It...

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WTF Happened to Kirsten Dunst?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris WTF Happened To This Celebrity? – The JoBlo series that examines the careers of stars and filmmakers who may have fallen out of the spotlight and tells where they are now! Kirsten Dunst started her career at a young...

Batgirl: J.K. Simmons in talks to return as Commissioner Gordon

Posted 5 years ago

Here’s a piece of news I don’t think many of us were expecting, but it looks like none other than J.K. Simmons is returning to the DCEU as Commissioner Gordon in HBO Max’s upcoming Batgirl movie. The film, which is...

Jungle Cruise Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: In 1917, a plucky British scientist (Emily Blunt) hires a riverboat captain (Dwayne Johnson) to take her and her brother (Jack Whitehall) through the jungle to try and discover a mythical tree of life she wants to use to...

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The Jewel of the Nile: The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Chris With Disney’s Jungle Cruise looking to revive the romantic-adventure genre, the filmmakers cited the Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner classic Romancing the Stone as one of their key inspirations. That film, which holds up beautifully thirty-seven years later, actually got a lesser-known sequel...

The Green Knight: Dev Patel & Joel Edgerton Exclusive interview!

Posted 5 years ago

For some of us, The Green Knight is among the most heavily anticipated movies of the summer. Coming from the mind of David Lowery, director of A Ghost Story, Pete’s Dragon and more, this is an adaptation of the classic...

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