J.B. Spins

Hitchcock loved putting average everymen into breakneck thrillers. To a large extent, that is what happens to the three protagonists o...

Horror can address human frailty better than any other genre. We make our own nightmares after all. For instance, two of the films inc...

Brahms’ lullaby is three minutes long. Max Richter’s titular composition is eight hours. Yet, they both represent the same musical genr...

Roman Polanski is human garbage, but somehow that doesn’t spoil Chinatown or Rosemary’s Baby for most viewers . Animated franchises ar...

At this year’s Sundance, Angelica Sakurada sniffed out the buzziest films, allowing us to focus on our specialties. First, she provided a...

Kids should be able to be kids, but Sadaf never stood a chance. She feels pressure from both sides of the social spectrum: her severe ...

This titular figurine is said to be either a harbinger of evil or a protection against it. Perhaps that makes it the perfect artifact t...

Horror movies are usually about monsters, but in real life, nothing is scarier than family. That is particularly and tragically so when...

Nikola Tesla is probably the only inventor to have a heavy metal band and an electric car named after him. His great rival Thomas Edis...

Finally, someone aspired to create the Great American actuarial movie. Sadly, it was made possible by one of the worst human tragedies...

You can’t hardly call horror films “date movies” anymore, because its like they’re trying to keep people apart. The horrors of blind d...

Bruce Lee is one of handful of movie stars who are just as popular now as they were at the height of their careers. He even spawned a ...

You’re being watched, so try to do something interesting. In this case, the surveillance isn’t dystopian. It’s cosmic. Someplace outsi...

It was not exactly the United Nation’s finest hour when Turkey was tapped to co-chair the human rights committee that accredited NGO’...

Who knew socialism could lead to such privation and poverty? Except maybe anyone who ever studied economics to any extent. In the cas...

William Peter Blatty paid extended tribute to the mother who had such a formative influence in Crazy , one of his final novels (whic...

In horror movies, if you hear the sound of weeping, it probably means you did something bad. There is also a good chance you’ll soon b...

There is a long tradition of telling scary stories, but getting well-paid for it is a relatively recent phenomenon. Seriously, can you ...

Tasya Vos works for the corporate equivalent of brain controlling parasites, like the exotic “zombie ant” fungus. She’s the fungus, or...

Nobody ever said loving a jazz musician was easy. Sylvie Johnson can tell you about that. They are always on the road and they never g...