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!

A Short Circuit remake is on the way

Posted 6 years ago

I'm confident in saying that, as a kid, nobody loved Johnny 5 quite as much as I did. John Badham's SHORT CIRCUIT was on pretty much constant repeat in my household through 1987-88, and I vividly remember being near-hysterical near...

The Guilty: Jake Gyllenhaal Netflix film casts Ethan Hawke & more

Posted 6 years ago

A little while back, Netflix announced that they picked up the worldwide rights to THE GUILTY, Jake Gyllenhaal and Antonine Fuqua's upcoming remake of the 2018 Danish thriller, for a cool $30 million. Fuqua, of course, had previously worked with Gyllenhaal...

Fatman directors on Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins and Santa (Interview)

Posted 6 years ago

Christmas 2020 is going to be – tough. The whole year has been a hot mess from beginning to end, and thanks to COVID-19, a lot of the places we live in are going to be locked down come December...

007: Never Say Never Again – 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. After leaving 007 behind after DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, the late, great...

Fatman (Review) with Mel Gibson & Walton Goggins

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A bratty kid hires a hitman (Walton Goggins) to kill Santa Claus (Mel Gibson). REVIEW: FATMAN is one of those movies that’s nearly impossible to define. When I heard that Mel Gibson was making an R-rated Santa Claus movie,...

Margot Robbie: Harley Quinn – Fearless Femmes

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome to an all-new show here on the JoBlo Video network, "Fearless Femmes", where we take an in-depth look at some of the coolest action heroines out there! Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor, they're all going to be...

The NeverEnding Story: Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome back to "Fantasizing About Fantasy Films" – JoBlo.com's all-new series digging into some of the best fantasy films of the eighties and nineties. All of these movies left a mark on us kids of the eighties, but perhaps none...

Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy (Review)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A struggling law student (Gabriel Basso) returns to the disenfranchised Appalachian community he was born into when his mother (Amy Adams) overdoses. REVIEW: Whatever you think of the outspoken J.D. Vance, his book, “Hillbilly Elegy” is an essential read....

WTF Happened to Steven Seagal?

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! With hits like ABOVE THE LAW, HARD TO KILL...

Freaky (Movie Review) – with Vince Vaughn & Kathryn Newton

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A shy teenaged girl named Millie (Kathryn Newton), and a hulking serial killer (Vince Vaughn) swap bodies through the use of a cursed dagger and only have twenty-four hours to break the spell, lest they be stuck in each...

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