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!

The Tomorrow War: What Did You Think?

Posted 5 years ago

The Tomorrow War is likely Amazon Prime Video’s biggest film yet. A $200 million tentpole, the film was acquired from Paramount Pictures in a rich deal. The fact that its bowing July 4th weekend, with an advertising campaign that rivals...

Fear Street Part 1: 1994 Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: The teens of Shadyside, Ohio, try to defeat a deadly curse, which, for centuries, has led to a brutal series of murders that crop up with alarming regularity. REVIEW: True story: R.L. Stine books were banned in my elementary...

WTF Happened to Hayden Christensen?

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! After spending his youth in TV and smaller...

Megaforce: Promo for 1982: The Greatest Geek Year Ever!

Posted 5 years ago

If you haven't seen Hal Needham's Megaforce, you're missing out on one of the cheesiest action films of all time! Produced by Raymond Chow's Golden Harvest at a huge $20 million budget (double the cost of Star Wars), it was meant...

Movie Reviews

Black Widow Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: On the run following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Natasha Romanova (Scarlett Johansson) is forced to reckon with her past when her estranged sister, Yelena (Florence Pugh), comes back into her life demanding they take down The...

Battlestar Galactica 1978: Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 5 years ago

When people think of Battlestar Galactica nowadays, they think of the fracking amazing 2000's Sci-Fi Channel show starring Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff. However, it was actually a remake of a short-lived but much-loved 1970's TV series that came...

Foundation TV series: Isaac Asimov adaptation gets a proper trailer

Posted 5 years ago

Every streaming TV service needs a signature show, and Apple TV is betting big on their upcoming adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic literary franchise Foundation. Before passing away in 1992, Asimov wrote seven Foundation novels and many more set within...

MacGruber TV Series: Will Forte posts first look image

Posted 5 years ago

I've always hoped we'd get a MacGruber 2. Jorma Taccone's original film was so much better than anyone could have reasonably thought it would be. Sure, the original SNL skits were funny, but did anyone think they could sustain a...

F9 – The Fast Saga: What did you think?

Posted 5 years ago

Family! Yes, folks, that's right – the Fast & Furious gang is back with the ninth installment in the franchise, F9: The Fast Saga, finally hitting theaters after over a year of delays. Many are predicting this will be the movie to reignite...

Nobody director on Bob Odenkirk and Christopher Lloyd as action stars

Posted 5 years ago

Ilya Naishuller’s Nobody is my choice for the best action movie of the year – so far. Thus, I was pretty psyched to get a chance to talk to the Russian director, who previously made the bonkers Hardcore Henry, to...

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