J.B. Spins

Iran has neither the equivalent of Emily’s List or the Susan B. Anthony List. Women candidates are not merely rare. They are unheard of. Tha...

Arguably, no publishing imprint more successfully branded itself than Harlequin. Their romances are literally written according to a formula...

Nobody would confuse Tatsumi for Leon the Professional . Despite his underworld ties, he usually only handles bodies after they have been mu...

VIRGIN PUNK: CLOCKWORK GIRL, a totally original new anime franchise, launched with a 35-minute “film” or “episode,” supplemented with specia...

A lot of stunt performers and fight choreographers did good work in PLAYDATE, but it also comes with a lot of dumb physical comedy. Still, t...

This film tries to be for fentanyl what Scarface was for cocaine and New Jack City was for crack. It might not capture a comparable cult fol...

Most movie patrons wouldn’t care much if Jake Rosser dies, but if anything happens to his partner, there will be a riot in the theater. Ross...

There were more American casualties during the Meuse-Argonne than in any other battle, in any other war. Yet, most Americans rarely think ab...

Carl Laemmle was the only old school Hollywood mogul who denounced Hitler and the National Socialists prior to WWII. Fittingly, most of his ...

Most DC fans think of the “Bat Family” as Batman, the other Bat heroes, like Batgirl, and the current and former Robins, including Nightwing...

“ I think we left too soon.” That is not a so-called “neocon” from the Bush administration speaking. It was current Democrat congressman and...

You have to root for the Army rugby team, especially in the stirring documentaary BROTHERS ON THREE. They were called to serve (reaching Gen...

La Belle Epoque ended with WWI, but the attitudes of Paris’s proper society have not changed. That meant Amedeo Modigliani had three strikes...

Most Americans have never heard of Ed Euromaus and Edda Euromausi, but the Europark mascots are beloved (or at least well-liked) in German. ...

Despite her recent scandal, Courtenay Potter is the kind of cheer coach Ted Lasso could appreciate, because she really cares about her team...

When your job is assassinating assassins, you probably aren’t contributing much to your 401K. Yet, Sam Hayden is somehow surprised when his ...

During the Vietnam War, Sen. John McCain received even harsher treatment then his fellow POW’s when their North Vietnamese Communist captors...

Sometimes ice and snow make a thriller more thrilling, like Cliffhanger, Insomnia, and The Thing . And sometimes they don’t. At least this e...

This hospital should certainly count as a workplace comedy setting, because head nurse Alex Mazurkian definitely works as hard as anyone. Ye...

Please forget the Blue Beetle movie from two years ago. It wasn’t simply bad. It disrespected the original characters co-created by Steve Di...

If MacGyver and Rube Goldberg started a sewing circle, they would invite Barbara Duggen to join them. She can do almost anything with a need...

Gen X did a lot of things right, but our record raising Millennial and Gen Z kids has been admittedly dismal. The job Maddie and Frank did w...

The Memali Incident was sort of like Malaysia’s Waco or Ruby Ridge. Essentially, the somewhat Islamic government laid siege to a village dom...

FOOD DELIVERY is a very timely documentary that captures an unprovoked Chinese attack on a Philippine Naval vessel, as well as the human suf...

The 1978 Cinema Rex fire in Abadan, Iran was sort of like the frequently misreported Gaza hospital bombings. In reality, it was committed by...

Where are Inspector Morse and Inspector Lewis when we need them? A house blows up in Oxford but the local police barely bother to notice. Ad...

LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN is a vibrant animated film that loooks equally inspired by Henri Matisse and Studio Ghibli. Yet, its ...

Do not even think any of this is allegorical and metaphorical. The priests explaining the rite of exorcism will assure the audience the Devi...

Those classic Universal Monster movies continue to shape how we think about monsters—and apparently how monsters think about us. Thanks to t...