J.B. Spins

Before we see one second of visuals, this film assures us no animals were hurt during its production. That’s great, but most viewers wil...

There are reasons to think a military base would be a good place to be when the zombie apocalypse breaks out. They have plenty of guns a...

Sadly, China’s Uyghur population are probably second only to the Falun Dafa when it comes to being demonized by the Party’s propaganda a...

We have long argued South Korea cinema has a well-earned competitive advantage when it comes to creepy serial killer thrillers, but whoe...

Blanca and Verta are like the Clooney Sisters of demon snakes. God help the mister who comes between Verta and her sister—especially if ...

Catholic countries idolize motherhood better than anyone. They are also just as perversely aware of its dark, sinister manifestations. T...

In criminal prosecutions, confessions often are not worth the paper the are scrawled on. That is especially true of the seven murders Ka...

China suffered terribly during the Japanese occupation. They go out of their way to remind the world of that fact with every other film ...

Doesn’t it warm your heart to see cooperation between the different Chinas? In this case, police officers from Hong Kong, Macau, and pos...

They are not likely to throw zombies out of work anytime soon, but evil dolls are still definitely having their evil moment. Even Malays...

Akira Sato was supposed to just mark time in what could be considered the Yakuza equivalent of Witness Protection. An Osaka clan allied ...

Generally speaking, if you want to understand a nation’s collective angst, you check out its monster movies. In Japan, that arguably exte...

The more you work with firearms, the more you come to regard them as a simple tool. Alas, Toru Nishikawa’s society does not afford him t...

Somehow, Ukon Gondo managed to fall in with a small group of Japanese leftist nationalists. They combine the fervor of Imperialist WWII ...

Annaka is the Japanese analog for Marathon, Greece. It was there that modern Japanese marathon running originated. It was also the end o...

Many contemporary mysteries cover forensic matters in graphic detail, but hardly any address the spiritual repercussions of murder. Howe...