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!

Mortal Kombat: What did you think?

Posted 5 years ago

It's been years and years in the making but finally, the all-new gritty Mortal Kombat reboot hits theaters and HBO Max this weekend. While the filmmakers have been hyping it up as one of the best fight movies ever made...

WTF Happened to Jet Li?

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! Martial arts whirlwind Jet Li has kicked an incalculable...

Together Together Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A middle-aged bachelor (Ed Helms) develops an unexpected friendship with the young woman (Patti Harrison) he hires to be his surrogate. REVIEW: Together Together is an unconventional love story in that its totally platonic. The characters do indeed say...

Video Game Movies Ranked: The Best & Worst

Posted 5 years ago

With the release of a new Mortal Kombat this week proving that Hollywood is finally taking video game source material seriously, now's the time to take a look back at some of the best and worst video game movies of all...

Running Scared 1986 (Billy Crystal) – The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 years ago

Chris The eighties were the heyday of the buddy cop movie. The year before Lethal Weapon came out and make the genre even more popular, Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines were Chicago cops on the trail of a drug lord...

Tiger King: John Cameron Mitchell to play Joe Exotic opposite Kate McKinnon

Posted 5 years ago

When I think back to the early days of the pandemic, I can't help but remember binging on Netflix's Tiger King. Ah yes, as bad as things were in those early dark days, the misadventures of Joe Exotic and his...

The Flash movie logo revealed: DCEU epic starts production

Posted 5 years ago

It seemed like we'd never actually get an Ezra Miller solo-Flash movie, but after years and years of production hurdles, DCEU's The Flash finally kicked off production today! This was announced via director Andy Muschietti's Instagram account and also via Twitter....

Adam Driver musical Annette debuts first trailer, sets Cannes premiere

Posted 5 years ago

Holy Motors’ director Leos Carax makes his English-language debut with Annette, a trippy-musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, that Deadline is reporting has just set a premiere date at Cannes! Set for a domestic release later this summer via...

Action Jackson (1988) – Carl Weathers – Reel Action

Posted 5 years ago

Hot…hotter….hottest! Take a trip with us back to 1988 here on Reel Action as we dig into Carl Weather's first solo star turn as the inimitable Action Jackson. Produced by genre mainstay Joel Silver, this has all the eighties...

WTF Happened to John Carter?

Posted 5 years ago

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at troubled movie productions, box-office failures, and bizarre and surprising creative decisions! It took a century for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic pulp hero John Carter (played by Taylor Kitsch)...

Load more articles