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!

Eternals first footage, Black Panther 2 title & more revealed

Posted 5 years ago

While we've yet to see a full trailer for Marvel's Eternals, our very first look at the film has finally been revealed through a short tease at the end of a new video posted by Disney called "Marvel Studios Celebrates...

Without Remorse: What Did You Think?

Posted 5 years ago

Well, it took decades but Tom Clancy's Without Remorse has finally been turned into a movie. While initially set for a theatrical release via Paramount Pictures, the film ended up being sold to Amazon Studios after numerous COVID-19 releated delays....

WTF Happened to Idiocracy?

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! Mike Judge found massive success with his “Beavis and Butt-Head” TV series, but the transition to...

Conan The Barbarian (1982) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 5 years ago

Conan the Barbarian is the film that kicked off the fantasy film revival of the eighties. Expected to be a huge blockbuster, Conan the Barbarian paved the way for all the clones that would follow, but the original John Milius film is...

Things Heard and Seen Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A couple (Amanda Seyfried & James Norton) moves to a small town when the husband acquires a prestigious university post. When there, they acquire an old house with a dark history that mirrors their troubled marriage. REVIEW: At first...

Crisis director Nicholas Jarecki on opioids, Gary Oldman & Armie Hammer

Posted 5 years ago

A few months ago, Nicholas Jarecki's Crisis was a hot ticket movie. Full disclosure – I'm a voting member of the Critics Choice Association. Given how positively the director's previous movie, Arbitrage, was received we were given early access to it for...

Without Remorse Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A Navy SEAL (Michael B. Jordan) seeks revenge after his pregnant wife is killed during a hit gone awry. He discovers it all relates to a plot to reignite the Cold War with Russia, sending him on the warpath. ...

Tomorrow Never Dies: Pierce Brosnan James Bond Revisited

Posted 5 years ago

After Goldeneye turned out to be a smash hit in the fall of 1995, EON Productions and United Artists worked overtime to make sure another James Bond 007 movie was out within two years, resulting in the rushed but action-packed...

Oscars 2021: Winners list

Posted 5 years ago

And so, another Academy Awards is in the books, with Nomadland emerging as the year’s big winner, with Chloe Zhao taking the award for best director as well as best picture. Can’t say I’m too upset about this – it...

Steven Spielberg: West Side Story trailer promises reimagining of a classic

Posted 5 years ago

It's apropos that Disney chose the Oscars to drop the teaser for Steven Spielberg's long awaited adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical West Side Story, as before COVID hit it was considered the front-runner for this year's Oscars. Of course,...

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