J.B. Spins

Before iPhones and Androids, it was the handheld addiction of choice. They were pseudo-affectionately called “CrackBerries.” The company tha...

Remember Facebook’s over-hyped, under-performing IPO? Naomi Bishop certainly does. However, she is more haunted by the recent blockbuster...

Perhaps it is time to get over the whole home ownership fetish. We’re largely over it here in the City already. It isn’t like there is ge...

Like a financial Luke Skywalker, Connor Lee is about to assume his destiny as the son of a legendary trader.  He will find it in Hong Ko...

It is almost like a modern-contemporary version of Metropolis . The financial titans rule the Frankfurt financial world high atop their glas...

Steve Delarue is a financial shark. France Leroi is a single mother, who is laid-off when her factory abruptly closes (but what a name she h...

Who understands the recent financial crisis better, brokers on Wall Street or first-time indie filmmakers? If you answered the latter, than ...

In Terminator 2 , the villain of the previous film comes back as the hero of the sequel. Such is also the case with Chris Paine’s latest fil...

It must be a sign of the zeitgeist when HK action auteur Johnnie To and his frequent collaborator Wai Ka-fai set their latest film in the wo...

Initially, the late Qing Dynasty’s new paper money is an economic boon, especially helpful facilitating transactions for the lower classes. ...

Steve Delarue is a financial shark. France Leroi is a single mother, who is laid-off when her factory abruptly closes (but what a name she h...

In addition to mundane benefits administration and payroll management, HR managers do a bit of PR flackery in Israel. They also have to worr...

Talk about bait and switch. Instead of soul food, they serve nouveau fusion cuisine and alt-rock has replaced the classic soul music, yet Zi...

Vampires and corporate suits are all the same—they are both just bloodsuckers. Or so a new Canadian indy vampire film would have us believe....

It is very distracting to watch a film whose makers are clearly ignorant of the plot twists in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice . However, t...

It’s the U.S.A. versus the French. What else do you need to know? Of course, the French are accustomed to defeat, but this one probably stun...

Indy filmmakers seem to share Hollywood’s contempt for the supposedly evil businessman, but if there is one exception to the stereotype, it ...

In 1978 Elie Wiesel criticized the miniseries Holocaust for dramatizing, and thereby capitalizing on the murder of six million individuals ...