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!

Cannes 2021 Lineup: Wes Anderson, Paul Verhoeven movies to premiere

Posted 5 years ago

After taking a year off due to the pandemic, The Cannes Film Festival seems on the verge of making a major comeback! This morning, the full list of titles for the upcoming festival (slated for July 6th to 17th on the...

Dragonslayer (1981) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 5 years ago

This week on Fantasizing About Fantasy Films, we're taking a deep dive into one of the strangest films ever to emerge from Disney – Dragonslayer – a co-production with Paramount Pictures that ranks as one of the darkest sword and sorcery...

Space Above and Beyond: Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 5 years ago

One thing you'll notice about the shows we cover here at Gone But Not Forgotten – many of them are from Fox. In fact, not only are they from Fox, but in most cases, they were critically acclaimed, with huge...

Army of the Dead: Omari Hardwick on his character’s future (SPOILERS)

Posted 5 years ago

Recently, we had the chance to sit down and talk with Omari Hardwick from Army of the Dead, and for those of you that have seen the movie, he had some interesting insight into his character’s fate – and future...

Runaway (1984) Tom Selleck & Gene Simmons- The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Chris In 1984, Tom Selleck was riding high off of the success of Magnum P.I. on tv, but here's the thing – he wanted to be a movie star. He'd nailed the audition for Indiana Jones in Raiders of the...

Emma Stone channels Steve Martin in Planes, Trains & Automobiles rant

Posted 5 years ago

Emma Stone's currently lighting up the screen in Disney's surprisingly fun 101 Dalmatians reboot/prequel, Cruella. While doing the press tour, she did a zoom interview with Jimmy Kimmel in which she outed herself as a Planes, Trains & Automobiles super...

WTF Happened to The Lighthouse?

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! Director Robert Eggers followed the sleeper horror hit The Witch with his 2019 sophomore effort The Lighthouse,...

We Remember: Phil Hartman

Posted 5 years ago

Welcome to our all new spin-off of our popular WTF Happened to this Celebrity series, "We Remember". As the title suggests, the series is a little different from our usual show, in that it explores the life and work of...

Chuck Norris – Missing in Action (1984): Reel Action

Posted 5 years ago

It's hard to believe, but here on REEL ACTION, this is our first foray into the wild and wonderful world of The Cannon Group. Founded by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, Cannon were the kings of eighties B-movie...

Army of Thieves: Matthias Schweighöfer on the upcoming prequel

Posted 5 years ago

Folks probably took a trip to a Las Vegas plagued by zombies this weekend via Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, a movie we’ve written a lot about these last few weeks. Those who’ve been keeping up with the news...

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