Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,020 Articles Published

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: For Your Eyes Only

Posted 18 years ago

Although MOONRAKER had been a massive financial success, Bond producer Cubby Broccoli, must have realized that the series was quickly becoming a parody of itself. Serious measures had to be taken, and the decision was made to scale back the...

Bond: Moonraker

Posted 18 years ago

After the smash international success of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, producer Albert R. Broccoli immediately began work on a follow up. Originally, the next Bond slated for production was FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, but the success of STAR WARS...

Review: Repo! The Genetic Opera

Posted 18 years ago

My rating 5/10 — Chris Bumbray PLOT: Sometime in the near future, a mass epidemic of organ failures cripples society. Enter Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), and his company GeneCo- which provides organ transplantation for profit. Due to GeneCo.’s exorbitant prices,...

Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me

Posted 18 years ago

After the dismal performance of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, it took just under three years to get the next Bond installment into theaters. This was mainly due to the fact that Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman, having declared bankruptcy,...

Bond: The Man With The Golden Gun

Posted 18 years ago

The phenomenal worldwide success of LIVE AND LET DIE proved once and for all that Sean Connery was not the only actor audiences would flock to see as James Bond 007. In an effort to strike while the iron was...

Bond: Live and Let Die

Posted 18 years ago

After returning for DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, Sean Connery once again left the franchise to seek other opportunities. Producers Albert R. Broccoli, and Harry Saltzman- not wanting a repeat of the George Lazenby debacle, decided to hire an established star to...

Bond: Diamonds Are Forever

Posted 18 years ago

After the relative failure of ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE at the box office, Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli, & Harry Saltzman had to reconsider the direction the Bond series was heading in. After some soul searching, they decided to...

Bond: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Posted 18 years ago

After YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE came out in 1967, Sean Connery decided that he’d had enough of Bond, and called it quits. This left producers Albert R. Broccoli & Harry Saltzman in a bind. Connery had become a superstar as...

Review: What Just Happened?

Posted 18 years ago

Plot: An aging producer (Robert DeNiro- playing a thinly disguised Art Linson) struggles to get a new film off the ground, while simultaneously trying to fix his previous film, which is in post-production and is due to be screened at...

Bond: You Only Live Twice

Posted 18 years ago

After THUNDERBALL came out, the whole world went James Bond crazy. Suddenly, everyone was making spy thriller. There was the Matt Helm film series with Dean Martin, the Derek Flint movies with James Coburn, Michael Caine as Harry Palmer in...

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