J.B. Spins

Jan Mikolasek was not a urologist, or even a doctor, but he claimed to diagnose all his patients’ ailments from a yellow liquid sample. Mayb...

In times of crisis, some reporters set a valiant standard of professionalism, while others cravenly betray their commitment to the truth a...

It turns out Count Zaroff was right. Man is the most dangerous game. Something is poaching the poachers, because it is never hunting seas...

Tourists visiting Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall will find themselves in Jan Palach Square.  The newest public square in the Old Town q...

Tourists visiting Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall will find themselves in Jan Palach Square.  The newest public square in the Old Town q...

Janusz Korczak was like the Polish Dr. Seuss, Dr. Spock, and Father Flanagan combined.  He was born Henryk Goldszmit—a name that would p...

Compared to the sewers of Lvov, Anne Frank’s attic would have seemed comparatively bright and airy. Nevertheless, those inhuman living condi...

If a filmmaker with artistic integrity working behind the Iron Curtain never ran afoul of the state censors, they probably were doing someth...

Considering how many of her films challenged the authoritarian rule of Poland’s Communist government, it is a near miracle the great Polish ...

If a filmmaker with artistic integrity working behind the Iron Curtain never ran afoul of the state censors, they probably were doing someth...

Getting outclassed by the Hollywood Foreign Press is pretty pathetic, but that is what happened to the Academy Awards with Agnieszka Holland...

The face of evil is usually all too prosaic. Such is the case in To Kill a Priest , the first of three fruitful collaborations (so far) betw...

Strictly speaking, is it even possible to be “paranoid” when living under an oppressive government? If you think the system is out to get yo...