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!

Amazon in talks to acquire MGM: home of James Bond

Posted 5 years ago

In another sign of the times, MGM, the former Metro Goldwyn Meyer, perhaps the most iconic Hollywood studio of all time, is all set to be acquired by Amazon. This comes via a report from The Information, excerpted by Deadline,...

Revenge of the Ninja (1983) – Sho Kosugi – The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Cannon Films is legendary as far as eighties action flicks go. An independent company headed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the two became famous (or infamous) for a run of schlocky eighties B-movies. Their action movies,...

The World is Not Enough : Pierce Brosnan – James Bond Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

Despite opening on the same day as Titanic, Pierce Brosnan's second outing as James Bond 007, Tomorrow Never Dies, was a big box office hit. A third Brosnan Bond, The World is Not Enough, was put immediately into production, resulting...

The Dry: Eric Bana (Interview) on Australian film, Chopper and more

Posted 5 years ago

I've always been a major fan of Eric Bana. A terrific actor that crossed over from his native Australia after blowing onto the scene internationally with Andrew Dominik's Chopper, he played none other than The Incredible Hulk in Ang Lee's...

Riders of Justice Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: After his wife is killed in a train derailment, a military man, Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) is convinced by a survivor of the accident (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) that it was no accident. Rather, he and his crew of statisticians tell...

WTF Happened to Jurassic Park 3?

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! After two brontosaurus-sized box office smashes, a third JURASSIC PARK movie seemed like a guaranteed success. But...

The Woman in the Window Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: An agoraphobic woman (Amy Adams) who spies on her neighbours witnesses a murder. REVIEW: Joe Wright’s The Woman in the Window had a turbulent journey to the big screen. Originally a 20th Century Fox Film, it was left in...

Darren Lynn Bousman Interview: Spiral director weighs in on the franchise

Posted 5 years ago

True story – Darren Lynn Bousman was one of the first big interviews I ever did for JoBlo. It was way back in 2008, and Bousman was at Fantasia in Montreal promoting his soon to be cult hit, Repo! The...

Those Who Wish Me Dead Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A smokejumper (Angelina Jolie) reeling from a tragedy is forced to protect a young boy (Finn Little) who’s being hunted through the Montana wilderness by two cold-blooded professional killers (Nicholas Hoult & Aidan Gillen). REVIEW: Outside of Maleficent, Angelina...

Spiral: From the Book of Saw Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A detective (Chris Rock) investigates the brutal Jigsaw-style slaying of his best friend, only to discover there’s a new killer out there targeting dirty cops. REVIEW: First – I should get this out there: I’m not a Saw expert....

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