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!

The Ice Road Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: When a remote diamond mine in Manitoba collapses, a rebellious ice road trucker leads a rescue crew despite thawing waters. REVIEW: I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again – Liam Neeson is our generation’s Charles Bronson. Neeson...

WTF Happened to The Purge?

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! By now, everyone is familiar with the fictional American holiday known as The Purge, where...

New Halloween Kills trailer gets behind the mask

Posted 5 years ago

Could this be the most violent Halloween movie of all time? After a year of delays, Universal and Blumhouse are finally getting ready to release Halloween Kills, the long-awaited sequel to David Gordon Green's forty-years later sequel. As previously revealed,...

Raiders of the Lost Ark 40th Anniversary tribute: Raiders of the Lost Darth!

Posted 5 years ago

It's hard to believe but Raiders of the Lost Ark, usually considered one of the greatest of all "modern" action movies is actually forty-years old this month! With Harrison Ford STILL playing Indiana Jones after all of these years (with...

The Conjuring- WTF Really Happened to this Movie?

Posted 5 years ago

WTF REALLY Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that dives into movies based on or "inspired by" TRUE stories, REAL people and ACTUAL historical events to separate FACT from FICTION! On the big screen, the exploits of...

F9: The Fast Saga Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) can’t outrun the past when his long-lost brother, Jakob (John Cena) reenters the picture. Now one of the world’s most dangerous mercenaries, he breaks Cypher (Charlize Theron) out of the clutches of Mr. Nobody (Kurt...

Quantum of Solace: James Bond Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

After the smash success of CASINO ROYALE, EON wanted to strike when the iron was hot and immediately launched into production on the second Daniel Craig James Bond movie, QUANTUM OF SOLACE. For the first time in the franchise's history,...

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard: What did you think?

Posted 5 years ago

After a good year of delays The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, the sequel to the unexpectedly successful Hitman's Bodyguard has hit theaters. Suffice to say, I didn't care for it despite being a major fan of the three leads – Ryan...

Nobody 2: sequel being written, more action for Connie Nielsen? Exclusive!

Posted 5 years ago

Noboby was one of the biggest (and best) surprises of the year, reinventing Bob Odenkirk as a legit action icon. In fact, despite opening in the midst of a pandemic (when theaters were actually closed in much of North America)...

Fatherhood Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: Following the death of his wife, a man (Kevin Hart) struggles to adjust to the realities of fatherhood and being the single parent of an infant daughter. REVIEW: You have to give Kevin Hart credit. The guy could feasibly...

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