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!

Willow (1988) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 6 years ago

In 1988, George Lucas teamed with Ron Howard for the fantasy epic Willow. Lavishly budgeted and well-cast with a young Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis, the film, surprisingly, was a box office disappointment. Even still, it's cult following grew over...

Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley (Aliens) – Fearless Femmes

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome back to "Fearless Femmes", a show running down some of the toughest leading ladies of all time! Of course, you can't do a show like this without paying tribute to perhaps the greatest action heroine of all-time, Sigourney Weaver...

V (1983): Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome back to "Gone But Not Forgotten", a show examining your favorite vintage TV, which, despite no longer being on the airwaves, remain in our hearts! This week, we're taking a look at Kenneth Johnson's "V", which began life as...

The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (review)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) tries to move his family into legitimate business through a labyrinthine deal with the Vatican, only to find that his old friends and associates won’t allow him and his family to escape his past unscathed. REVIEW:...

David Fincher’s Mank (Review)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) is hired by a twenty-four Orson Welles (Tom Burke) to write the script for what would go on to become one of the greatest films ever made, CITIZEN KANE. But, to Mankiewicz, the...

WTF Happened to Geena Davis?

Posted 6 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! During the 1980s and early 1990s, Geena Davis went...

Sound of Metal (Riz Ahmed) review

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A heavy metal drummer (Riz Ahmed) who’s also a recovering addict, suddenly loses his hearing. Trying desperately to hold on to his sobriety, he finds a community of hearing-impaired former addicts who help him adjust to his new normal....

The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond Revisited)

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome back to another episode of "James Bond Revisited"! This time, we're taking a look at Roger Moore's second outing as 007, The Man With the Golden Gun, which was actually something of a fiasco for the series, resulting in...

F9: Tyrese & Dwayne Johnson end feud

Posted 6 years ago

It’s a Christmas miracle everyone! It looks like one of the most infamous feuds in Hollywood, the one between Tyrese and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has finally been put to rest. Tyrese said as much in a recent interview with...

The Long Kiss Goodnight (Geena Davis): The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 6 years ago

Chris Christmas is coming, and nothing says yuletide cheer like a Shane Black flick. For this installment of "The Best Movie You Never Saw", we're taking a look at one of Black's highest-selling spec scripts of all-time, The Long Kiss...

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