J.B. Spins

H-Town is way different from the Ewings’ Dallas, but there is still a lot of energy money there.  That is indirectly why German corporat...

And now Sebastián Silva presents the second part of Michael Cera’s Chilean vacation.  This was the film they intended to make all along...

There was one film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival 100% guaranteed to turn a profit.  We can tell this by the fact Roger Corman serv...

If you were to list corporations arrogant enough to initiate the Terminator franchise’s Skynet apocalypse, Google would have to rank at ...

To this day, French is still more widely spoken in New Orleans than people realize.  Unfortunately, an expecting married couple is not f...

Ushio Shinohara knows how to show a canvas who’s the boss.  His wife Noriko knows how to do the same with Shinohara.  However, it was no...

She was paid $1,250 for a film that reportedly grossed $600,000,000 and that paltry sum was entirely pocketed by her husband-manager.  T...

The post-Ewing era has been tough for Knicks fans.  Time and again they have watched the organization bring in over-priced under-perform...

Big Sur has a long history of inspiring artists, from Henry Miller to Charles Lloyd.  Jack Keouac was also one of them, sort of.  Adapti...

India Stoker is sort of a female Hamlet.  After her father died under mysterious circumstances, her mother is all eyes for her uncle.  H...

The blue Kevlar helmets issued by a Filipino armored car company identify their drivers as targets just as much as they provide protecti...

Nuclear energy does not burn fossil fuels, nor is it intermittent.  Appreciation of these obvious, incontrovertible facts led documentar...

This is a rather bold programming choice, considering how many attending Sundance have flown in from New York and Los Angeles.  Original...

For three criminal clans in India’s coal country, life is defined by family and their vendettas.  The two are not mutually exclusive in ...

Photographer-filmmaker Tim Hetherington never considered himself an artist.  Nor could he be dubbed a partisan—his work was far too hone...

In 1944, by a confluence of fate, the leading lights of the Beat movement assembled together around Columbia University, including Allen...

Paul Raymond was like the British Hefner, except he was significantly richer.  It turns out real estate and dirty magazines were a highl...

Have you ever watched something so disturbing you wish you could un-see it?  Like maybe A Serbian Film or Barbra Streisand’s Guilt Trip ...