Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

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Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Heat, The Guns read more 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 bad ones, and of course, Tom Cruise!

Bond: Casino Royale

Posted 18 years ago

While DIE ANOTHER DAY broke franchise records- all was not well in Bond-land. Producers Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli, reportedly unhappy with the fantastical, sci- fi direction the series was heading in, decided that the franchise needed a radical...

Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies

Posted 18 years ago

After GOLDENEYE broke franchise records in the fall of 1995, it was a given that the franchise would continue with Pierce Brosnan- and work began on a follow up film due for Christmas of ’97. The question remained- would this...

Bond: The World Is Not Enough

Posted 18 years ago

TOMORROW NEVER DIES, despite a troubled shoot, ended up being another hit for the Bond producers- which, after Cubby Broccoli’s death in 1996, became his heirs, Barbara Broccoli, & Michael G. Wilson. Both had been with the series for years-...

Bond: Licence to Kill

Posted 18 years ago

When THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS came out in the summer of 1987, it was a modest financial success- but clearly, audiences were not flocking to Bond films the way they used to. Obviously, the formula needed to be shaken up somewhat....

Bond: Goldeneye

Posted 18 years ago

After the relative failure of LICENCE TO KILL at the box office, it took six whole years to get another Bond film off the ground. In that time, Timothy Dalton either left the role, or was fired (depending on who...

Bond: The Living Daylights

Posted 18 years ago

After the A VIEW TO A KILL debacle, it was obvious that Roger Moore was a little long in the tooth to continue playing Bond. Cubby Broccoli had to find himself a new actor to fill Moore’s shoes, and he...

Bond: A View to a Kill

Posted 18 years ago

Despite the fact that Roger Moore was ready to leave the Bond franchise after FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, the follow up, OCTOPUSSY was popular enough to prove that audiences worldwide still loved him in the role. Even though he was...

Review: Soul Men

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: Two over the hill former soul backup singers (Samuel L. Jackson & Bernie Mac), hit the road in hope of making a comeback at the funeral of their former lead singer. Unfortunately, neither has performed in thirty years, and...

Bond: Never Say Never Again

Posted 18 years ago

As I mentioned in my OCTOPUSSY review, 1983 was a big year for Bond, as there was not one, but two Bond films coming out that year. This is due to the fact that, years before the official James Bond...

Bond: Octopussy

Posted 18 years ago

In 1981, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY hit theaters. Unlike some of the previous films, this was more of an attempt to ground the series, and take it away from the campy direction it had been headed in throughout the seventies....

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