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!

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EXCLUSIVE: Renny Harlin on James Bond, The Misfits, Long Kiss Goodnight 2!

Posted 5 years ago

Renny Harlin stands as one of my favorite action directors of all time. One of the kings of nineties Hollywood action flicks, his filmography is insane, with him having shot The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and Die Hard 2 back...

Movie Theaters: We’re back at the movies, how about you?

Posted 5 years ago

Last week I did something crazy – I went to the movies. Sure enough, this was my first time in a movie theater since a bizarre brief spell back in September when I saw Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and The New...

Jupiter’s Legacy cancellation: Josh Duhamel weighs in

Posted 5 years ago

A lot of us were pretty surprised when it was announced last week that Netflix was canceling Mark Millar's much-hyped Jupiter's Legacy. While they were quick to note that their relationship with Millar would continue with his upcoming show Supercrooks, it's...

Casino Royale – James Bond Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

The Daniel Craig James Bond 007 era kicks off in high style with Casino Royale, widely regarded as one of the best James Bond movies of all time, and a strong start to Craig's run as the super spy. Directed...

Comments on JoBlo, a new moderator and you!

Posted 5 years ago

JoBlo.com was founded in 1998. We remain one of the longest standing independent movie fansites in the world and we pride ourselves on that, as well as our extreme focus on movies and not much else (well, maybe TV sometimes)....

Clarence Williams III dies: Tales From the Hood star was 81

Posted 5 years ago

Some sad news to start the week, with CNN reporting that legendary character actor Clarence Williams III has passed away at 81. Modern audiences will likely know him best from his roles in Tales from the Hood, American Gangster (where he memorably...

The Matrix 4: Christina Ricci joins sequel

Posted 5 years ago

Just a few weeks ago, we dropped "WTF Happened to Christina Ricci" on JoBlo Videos and ended it with a plea for Hollywood to start casting this really interesting actress in some worthy roles again. Little did we know that...

WTF Happened to Jean-Claude Van Damme? UPDATED with JCVD approval!

Posted 5 years ago

UPDATE: In a really cool twist, Jean-Claude Van Damme himself actually took to Twitter yesterday to tell us that he watched the video and loved it. Isn't that cool? We love JCVD! @joblocom I loved it! Thank you. ?? https://t.co/mfyLiyjcJw#WTF #JCVD...

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (Horror Review)

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: In one of their most chilling cases, Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) try to prove the innocence of Arne Cheyenne Johnson (Ruairi O’Connor), a young man who killed his landlord while, supposedly, in the throes of...

Roadrunner trailer: Anthony Bourdain doc explores the “bad boy of cooking”

Posted 5 years ago

The world became an infinitely less interesting place on June 8th, 2018 when the great Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his French hotel room. A tragic suicide, Bourdain was famous worldwide as kind of the “bad boy of cooking”...

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