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!

WTF Happened to Paul Verhoeven?

Posted 5 years ago

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 earning critical acclaim for his early foreign-language films...

JoBlo Originals

Rocky III: Sylvester Stallone Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Here on JoBlo Videos, there’s no hiding the fact that we’re massive Sylvester Stallone fans. We love the guy and we figured, with the success of James Bond Revisited, why not give The Italian Stallion himself the same treatment?...

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: After taking a bullet for his mortal enemy, Darius Kinkaid (Samuel L. Jackson), the world’s most infamous assassin, bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) finds himself stripped of his triple-A rating and unlicenced. On sabbatical, his vacation in Capri is...

Edgar Wright & Sparks Interview: The Sparks Brothers

Posted 5 years ago

True story – I'd only vaguely heard of Sparks before catching Edgar Wright's documentary, The Sparks Brothers, at Sundance (read my review). I remember seeing them in 1977's Rollercoaster on TV one afternoon and thinking they had to be a...

Hard Boiled (1992) – The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Chris While some of you might take issue with me including a stone-cold classic like John Woo's HARD BOILED among my Best Movie You Never Saw picks – here's the thing. I'd wager a lot of of younger viewers, or...

WTF Happened to Howard the Duck?

Posted 5 years ago

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at troubled productions, curious creative decisions, box-office failures, surprising successes, and cult favorites! In 1986, long before the Avengers assembled on the big screen and transformed the Marvel Cinematic...

Marvel’s Loki: What Did You Think?

Posted 5 years ago

The first episode for Marvel's Loki has made its way to Disney Plus, and critics seem to be digging the God of Mischief's solo adventure so far. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, it's scored an impressive 95% compared to Falcon and the Winter Soldier's 89% (also quite...

The Misfits Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A crew of international do-gooders enlists the aid of a master thief, Richard Pace (Pierce Brosnan) to help them foil a notorious prison magnate (Tim Roth) with ties to international terrorism. REVIEW: Along with James Bond and Remington Steele,...

The Sword and the Sorcerer: Promo for 1982: The Greatest Geek Year Ever!

Posted 5 years ago

I think it’s generally accepted nowadays that 1982 was perhaps the greatest year for geek cinema that ever was. Just think about all of the classics that came out: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, E.T: The...

Infinite Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A troubled man (Mark Wahlberg) plagued by hallucinations discovers he’s the reincarnation of an ancient warrior and belongs to a group called “Infinites”, who can retain memories of their past lives – but not all of them are good....

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