J.B. Spins

Hana's parasite is more dangerous than a tapeworm, because it is literally a hungry ghost. Ill-advisedly, she deliberately ingested it o...

Michaela is a bad mother, but it runs in the family. Her mother was the notorious crazy lady who killed herself. Maybe being the drunk drive...

One of the worst things about oppressive regimes is the way they corrupt and break people. When Perla Adamova fled Czechoslovakia after the ...

The picturesque Austrian village of Altaussee probably boasts the only working mine that also features an art exhibit. There is a good reaso...

Sadly, too many Vietnam veterans could relate to the indifferent and sometimes hostile homecomings these Austrian POWs experienced after WWI...

We need to get horror film directors some sort of group subscription to Discovery+, because they need to start developing healthier relation...

A little social distancing would have been healthy for this class of Austrian teens. However, this is the “before-times” and these kid...

Australians definitely seem to be a freedom loving people, despite their 1996 and 2002 gun laws. Unfortunately, they will regret that le...

According to this religiously motivated serial killer, Islam’s Zamhari Hell is so cold, it burns. In that case, it would not mean much if...

Since the nation was founded as a penal colony, it makes sense Australia would produce a science fiction yarn about an uprising in a colo...

If Vicki Maloney had paid more mind to her mother, she would not be in this spot. Unfortunately, she snuck out when she was grounded and ...

Stefan Zweig was one of the many Jewish intellectuals who escaped National Socialist-dominated Europe through Varian Fry’s network, yet h...

Good news, death panels will be safely abolished in the future. Instead, heroic efforts will be taken to prolong the lives of the poor an...

Think of it as A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters , if it had been written for post-war intellectuals like Arendt and Camus. In spite of their ra...

Fascists and fetishists share a similar taste in shiny black clothes. Hanna von Stezewitz’s old National Socialist grandfather was the fo...

If Guy Maddin set out to adapt a ten year-old Wired magazine article, the result would probably look a lot like this, but the resulting f...

Jack Unterweger was the Roman Polanski of Austrian letters. He had been convicted of the sadistic murder of a young woman, but the smart ...

By now, when we see twins in cinema, we assume at least one is evil—maybe both (as in The Shining, The Krays, and Full House ). Evil is p...

Old European feudalism is about to get a taste of revenge, served up in vintage American Western style. A stranger has come to a remote t...

When the television adaptation of Stephen King’s Under the Dome hits the airwaves, fans will duly wonder where he gets his ideas from.  H...