J.B. Spins

This is a not a winter festival or a family reunion. We are here to celebrate Christmas and Butch Hartman’s creation take it extremely serio...

According to scientists, polar bears really belong at the top of the planetary food chain, because so many of them have a taste for eating p...

Lionel Barrymore's nasty financier in It’s a Wonderful Life won’t look so bad anymore after watching this movie. Sure, he’s greedy and u...

There is a long-standing debate whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. This one definitely is—and it consciously riffs on the Bruce W...

It is sort of like T he Big Chill , but the suicide[s] haven’t happened yet. Unfortunately, the world is ending, so a group of old college f...

They say “Satan Never Sleeps.” His minions don’t work bankers’ hours either. That means the evil entity haunting a remote country hous...

Bob Clark’s 1974 horror movie was the original “the calls are coming from inside the house” shocker, predating When a Stranger Calls b...

This must be the worst must-have toy since the Chuckie Good Guy doll. It looks a little like the Philly Phanatic mascot crossed with Gizm...

Alas, Santa Land was another victim of the War on Christmas. Sure, they say a handful of kids died on the theme park’s rides, but that w...

You don’t get squat for being on Santa’s “nice” list in Norway, but don’t complain. Those on the “naughty” list get hacked to bits by an...

We have the cure for Hallmark Christmas TV movies right here for you. It started life as a short film zombie spoof of the High School Mu...

Why are there so many Christmas horror movies? Because it is a family holiday. That is scary enough for many folks, but in the case of th...

The babysitter is always the prime candidate to be the final girl. That is even true during the Christmas season, if not more so. After a...

What’s a merry Christmas without a little collateral damage? Fortunately, the French are there to remind us how aggressively crummy the holi...

All Pagan Claus ever gave kids were the willies. The candy and toys came after those mean old Christians co-opted him. However, the old scho...

It’s time to get your Bah Humbug on, en Français. It might be the Christmas season, but there is little comfort and joy when the Vuillards g...