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

WTF Happened to The Predator?

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! Fans of Fox’s lethal alien hunters were thrilled to learn that Shane Black would relaunch...

Val Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: After losing his voice during a long battle with cancer, actor Val Kilmer looks back at his life story through the thousands of hours of footage he shot of himself throughout his career. REVIEW: Val is a must-watch for...

Ted Lasso: Most watched program on Apple TV

Posted 5 years ago

If you haven't started watching Ted Lasso yet, you're missing out. Indeed, people seem to finally be catching on to this streaming gem in the wake of its massive haul of Emmy nominations, with Deadline reporting that the Jason Sudeikis-starrer has...

Midnight in the Switchgrass Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: An FBI agent (Megan Fox) and a Pensacola cop (Emile Hirsch) team up to bring a serial killer preying on young girls to justice. REVIEW: Midnight in the Switchgrass marks the directing debut of Randall Emmett, who, among others,...

Dune: New Trailer promises action-packed epic

Posted 5 years ago

UPDATE: As expected, Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures have finally dropped the full theatrical trailer for Denis Villeneuve's Dune. As I mentioned yesterday, the trailer is heavy on action, introducing sure-to-be fan favorite Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho and the rest...

Movie News

Batman: The Animated Series – Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 5 years ago

One of the most acclaimed on-screen depictions of Batman ever made didn’t happen on the silver screen. Instead, it was a small-screen after-school cartoon, Batman: The Animated Series, which paid homage to The Caped Crusader’s film noir origins and influenced many...

Army of the Dead: 75 million views for Zack Snyder epic

Posted 5 years ago

It looks like Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead is officially a hit! Or, at least that's what Netflix is revealing via their quarterly earnings report, which pegs the movie's viewership at 75 million member accounts. The info was reported...

JoBlo Originals

Spectre (2015) : James Bond Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

Chris It’s likely one of the most controversial James Bond movies of all time. Still, Sam Mendes’s SPECTRE was intended to be a massive 007 epic that would pull together elements from all the other Daniel Craig James Bond movies...

Al Pacino and Christopher Walken are Roomies! Check out the full show here!

Posted 5 years ago

"Dude, imagine if Al Pacino and Christopher Walken were roommates?" I think I had this exact conversation with a friend of mine several years ago while watching the movie Stand Up Guys (which starred the pair) with some "now legal in Canada" inspiration, if you know...

Black Adam filming wraps; Johnson calls it a “career-definer”

Posted 5 years ago

It looks like DC’s Black Adam has finally finished shooting, and by the sound of it, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is spent. The iconic star shared his wrap-message to the crew on Instagram today, along with a post noting that...

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