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!

WTF Happened to Poltergeist?! (VIDEO)

Posted 6 years ago

One of the breakout titles on the JoBlo Videos YouTube Channel has been WTF Happened to…, a series digging into the backstories of all your favorite (and sometimes most hated) films. The idea has always been to provide an inside look...

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The Best Movie You Never Saw: Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man

Posted 6 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

Review: Human Capital

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: An ambitious, middle-class businessman (Liev Schreiber) sees an opening into a more lucrative lifestyle when his daughter (Maya Hawke) starts dating the son of a ruthless investor (Peter Sarsgaard), but a deadly accident involving the children complicates things. REVIEW:...

Top 10 Virus Movies you can watch now!

Posted 6 years ago

Social isolation…flattening the curve…COVID-19…Coronavirus. Those are the words we're going to be hearing a lot of in the near future due to what's certainly one of the most frightening things to happen to our generation, a viral pandemic that means...

Review: Lost Girls

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A mother (Amy Ryan) desperately pushes police to search for her missing daughter, only to get drawn into the orbit of a long-unsolved series of serial killings, many of which involved sex workers. REVIEW: LOST GIRLS would have made...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Back to School

Posted 6 years ago

Bloodshot Movie Review

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A murdered soldier (Vin Diesel) is resurrected as an invincible assassin, bent on avenging the murder of his wife at the hands of a terrorist (Toby Kebbell). But, is his mission as righteous as he thinks, or is he...

Review: Big Time Adolescence

Posted 6 years ago

Note: This review originally appeared as part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. PLOT: Sixteen year old Mo (Griffin Gluck) doesn’t have many friends his own age. But, he does have a best friend in twenty-three-year-old Zeke (Pete Davidson), his sister’s...

Review: Spenser Confidential

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Spenser (Mark Wahlberg), an ex-cop turned ex-con, is released from jail after serving five years for the brutal assault of his former captain. When the man turns up dead, Spenser, to prove the innocence of another detective in his...

Review: The Way Back (2020)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A former teenaged basketball phenom-turned alcoholic, middle-aged construction worker (Ben Affleck) is recruited by his alma-mater to be their new basketball coach. REVIEW: In my mind, there have always been two Ben Affleck’s – the passionate, driven actor-writer-director and...

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