J.B. Spins

It is the one rock-solid law of kung fu  movies: no matter where you are in life, you must avenge your sifu. The trio of boyhood friends who...

Apparently, it is fun to obsess  over post-apocalyptic dystopias, but you wouldn’t want to visit one. Yet, that just might happen to the unf...

St. Columba is considered one of the Twelve Apostles  of Ireland, who was indeed canonized by the Church. Yet, even though Colmcille, a Celt...

Block Island  is part of the state of Rhode Island, so you know it is probably economically depressed, but the recent waves mass fish deaths...

Sailors know . There is a reason the old salts fear mermaids and sirens, because they really are out to get men. Lula assumes Gaspard Snow w...

A guy walks into a bar . In this case, a duck does not tell the bartender to put the newcomer’s drink on his bill, but the man has a darkly ...

During Taiwan’s “White Terror,” the KMT ruled over a one-party authoritarian regime. Despite formerly professing an anti-communist ideology,...

“The Handsome Guy” and his accomplice  originally did not set out for another “Most Dangerous Game”-style people-hunting excursion. They are...

Established in 1978, Action Park was really two parks divided by a highway: Water World and Motor World. You could say it was like Westworld...

It turns out we can even blame millennials for bad weather. In this case, the irresponsible party is Claude, a rookie cloud-maker. When he d...

Drawn butter won’t save the world, b ut maybe weaponized rice vinegar can. The trick will be cracking the crab kaiju’s thick shell. The worl...

Li Weijie is sort of like Remington  Steele, except he uses his encyclopedic knowledge of movies to obscure a crime rather than solve it. No...

If his funereal top hat and cape were not enough to make you suspect Ze do Caixao, a.k.a. “Coffin Joe ,” was capable of some serious villain...

It is like the science fiction take on the old Grey Poupon commercials. How so, you might ask? Well, its complicated. It turns out there is ...

Kai wears white suits like Mr. Roarke on Fantasy  Island . As a photo re-touch specialist, he helps his clients project a fantasy version of...

Miyamoto Musashi was an epic figure. He was the subject of Hiroshi Inagaki’s S amurai Trilogy (staring Toshiro Mifune) and it took Tomu Uchi...

Saitama is a lot like New Jersey, but not quite as depressing. It is close to Tokyo, but it is definitely not part of Tokyo. Sadly, many Sai...

Patrick Stein, from West Germany, is a fiercely honest cop who will investigate the politically protected, no matter the consequences. East ...

Milk, it does a body good—except when it causes one of those freak Soviet-era milking disasters. The titular Estonian dairy farmer remains s...