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!

Jackie Chan’s Rumble in the Bronx – Reel Action

Posted 5 years ago

We've covered all the giants here on Reel Action. Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Seagal, Snipes, even Swayze. But somehow, we never got to one of the undisputed kings of the genre, Jackie Chan! While a legend in Hong Kong and...

Interview: Morgan Neville on Roadrunner: A FIlm About Anthony Bourdain

Posted 5 years ago

The death of Anthony Bourdain hit me like a ton of bricks. Here's the thing – I never really watched his show, Parts Unknown, on CNN. I had never read one of his books. Yet, there was something about him...

Fear Street Rentals: West Hollywood pop up brings back the video store era

Posted 5 years ago

Ever miss the video store era? As a child of the eighties and nineties, I can't even imagine what my formative years would have been like without my local video stores. I used to spend hours and hours just walking...

Black Widow: What Did You Think?

Posted 5 years ago

After a long wait, Marvel's Black Widow has finally hit theatres (and Disney+ Premium Access). It's hard to believe, but it's actually been two whole years since an MCU movie hit theaters, with the last one being Spider-Man: Far From...

WTF Happened to Michael Bay’s The Island?

Posted 5 years ago

Chris WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at troubled movie productions, box-office failures, and bizarre and surprising creative decisions! After five bombastic blockbusters, director Michael Bay attempted something more cerebral with the sci-fi clone thriller The...

Dreamscape (1984) – The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Chris This week's Best Movie You Never Saw is 1984's cult classic Dreamscape, starring Dennis Quaid as a psychic recruited by his former mentor (Max Von Sydow) for a top-secret program involving the infiltration of dreams. Little do either of them know, the...

Blade Runner anime “Black Lotus” sets voice cast

Posted 5 years ago

It looks like more Blade Runner is on the way, with Adult Swim, Crunchyroll and Alcon Entertainment unveiling the voice cast for their upcoming anime, Blade Runner: Black Lotus. The series is a sequel to a trio of anime shorts that came...

James Bond Revisited: Skyfall

Posted 5 years ago

In the wake of Quantum of Solace's disappointing critical reaction, EON Productions, headed by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, knew that they needed to step things up creatively for the follow-up Daniel Craig 007 outing. Thus, for Skyfall, they...

Highlander (1986) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 5 years ago

In this episode of Fantasizing About Fantasy Films, we take a look back at one of the biggest cult classics of the eighties, Russell Mulcahy's Highlander. Although a flop upon its initial release, at least domestically, significant box office receipts in...

Fear Street Part 2: 1978: new trailer wraps up your holiday weekend!

Posted 5 years ago

If you happened to check out Netflix's surprisingly fun Fear Street Part 1: 1994 this weekend, you were treated to a massive cliffhanger and a quick look at the next installment, Fear Street Part 2: 1978. Well, good news, folks!...

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