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!

Synchronic (movie review) starring Anthony Mackie & Jamie Dornan

Posted 6 years ago

SYNCHRONIC was originally reviewed at TIFF 2019 PLOT: Two New Orleans paramedics (Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan) notice a series of grisly deaths are seemingly related to a new designer drug called Synchronic. REVIEW: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are...

The Amityville Horror (1979) – WTF REALLY Happened to this Movie?

Posted 6 years ago

In this spinoff of JoBlo’s popular “WTF Happened” series, we dive into movies that are based on TRUE STORIES, real people and actual events from history. Our research finds us digging through available evidence to determine the FACT and FICTION...

George Lazenby’s James Bond Revisited: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome back to James Bond Revisited, as we look back at all the 007 flicks, counting down to the (eventual) theatrical release of NO TIME TO DIE. In 1967, Sean Connery's contract as James Bond had reached its end, and...

Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners: The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 6 years ago

Chris Peter Jackson. For most of us, the name conjures up images of Hobbits and shires, Dwarves and Elves – and let’s face it – money and Oscars. It’s safe to say that directors don’t get much bigger than Peter...

Sylvester Stallone: Demolition Man – Reel Action

Posted 6 years ago

It's time for another instalment of "Reel Action", where we revisit some of the biggest and best action classics from all the icons of the genre. Of course, one of the undisputed kings of the action genre will always be...

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Review)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Following the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Chicago 7 – Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), John Froines (Daniel Flaherty), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch), Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins), and Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp),...

Honest Thief (Movie Review) starring Liam Neeson

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: After a decade of robbing banks, the infamous “in and out bandit”, Tom Carter (Liam Neeson) is ready to turn himself in to the FBI, in the hopes of getting a reduced sentence so he can spend the rest...

WTF Happened to Kevin Costner?

Posted 6 years ago

Over the course of his lengthy career, Kevin Costner has traveled through some serious peaks and valleys. The multi-talented A-lister gained considerable Hollywood power from 80s and 90s smashes like FIELD OF DREAMS, THE BODYGUARD and the Oscar-winning DANCES WITH...

Deadly Friend, Wes Craven, Kristy Swanson- WTF Happened to this Horror Movie

Posted 6 years ago

In 1984, Wes Craven was coming off of the massive success of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, a film which, for better or worse, would reinvigorate and change the horror genre for years to come, with the new emphasis being...

Charm City Kings: HBO Max (Review)

Posted 6 years ago

CHARM CITY KINGS was previously reviewed at Sundance 2020 – it's now available on HBO MAX PLOT: A fourteen-year-old Baltimore teen, Mouse (Jahi Di’Allo Winston), falls in with a daredevil dirt bike riding crew called the Midnight Clique, whose leader,...

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