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!

Review: Promising Young Woman

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A young med school dropout (Carey Mulligan) compulsively haunts dive bars and night clubs, looking to be picked up by predatory men to teach them painful lessons about consent. When an old friend (Bo Burnham) wanders back into her...

News of the World (Movie Review) starring Tom Hanks

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A civil war veteran (Tom Hanks), who makes his living traveling from town to town reading and performing the news, comes upon a young girl (Helena Zengel) raised by a Kiowa tribe after the massacre of her parents. Left with...

Gremlins (1984) – WTF Happened To This Movie?

Posted 6 years ago

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at TROUBLED movie productions! Box-office smashes and flops, fan-favorites or creative failures, these movies endured numerous problems behind-the-scenes. Director Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy GREMLINS is a uniquely twisted Christmas classic....

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang – (The Best Christmas Movie You Never Saw)

Posted 6 years ago

Chris It's a very Shane Black Christmas here at JoBlo – with us taking a look back and his underrated whodunit – KISS KISS BANG BANG – a private eye thriller that revitalized the career of leading man Robert Downey...

George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky (Review)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: After a world-wide, apocalyptic event, the earth’s air has become poisonous. A space shuttle crew seeking out a new home for the human race is about to return home from their mission, but unable to reach anyone, they’re unaware...

CHRISTMAS TOYS HEAVEN! JoBlo’s Movie Gameroom: Collector’s Corner

Posted 6 years ago

Teddy Ruxpin, Thundercats, Furby, WWF wrestling buddies – we all had that one Christmas gift we were hoping and praying was under the tree on Christmas morning, no matter what hell our parents had to go through to get them....

Gladiator 2: The Movie That Almost Was

Posted 6 years ago

While Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR memorably ended with the death of Russell Crowe's iconic Maximus, that didn't stop Hollywood from trying to figure out a way to make a sequel, with Russell Crowe returning as its star. In fact, the great...

Interview: Scott Adkins on Boyka, Max Cloud and making action flicks

Posted 6 years ago

For devotees of action cinema, one of the great, unheralded heroes these days is Scott Adkins. Having shown off his action chops as everything from Ryan Reynolds' fight double in X-Men Origins: Wolverine to a reliable baddie in Hong Kong...

Interview: The iconic Paul Hogan on Crocodile Dundee and his new film

Posted 6 years ago

One of the perks of working a job such as mine is that, every once in awhile, you get to speak with a legit legend, or at least someone whose work has been really important to you over the years....

The Last Boy Scout (Bruce Willis & Damon Wayans) – Reel Action

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome back to Reel Action, where we take a look at some of the coolest action flicks of the eighties and nineties, starring legends like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, JCVD and more! This week, we're digging into a Bruce Willis...

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