J.B. Spins

Instead of wire-fu, this martial arts epic uses glove-fu and CGI animation. The art of Budaixi, Chinese glove puppetry, is alive and well in...

Apparently, the only thing that brings out an individual’s true inner nature more than mutant superpowers is vampirism. That is what Lulu Wo...

These zombies are fast and angry. You might also call them bad touchers. It turns out the same virus over-stimulating the infecteds’ aggress...

This will be the last bus of the night. Its route runs from the end of the line to the end of someone’s life. It will be a bumpy ride, but d...

What goes better with possessed fish, some nice lemon rice or creamy kale? Regardless, a well-to-do businessman does indeed eat such a fish ...

The late Kim Ki-duk made some great films (like Pieta and Moebius ), but if Woody Allen can be cancelled without proof, you have to wonder ...

Service at this hotel is excellent, but it is hard to say Michelin or Zagat would rate them. Guests never stay a second night—there or anywh...

At least Taipei's Fu-Ho theater had a final night. That is more than dozens of movie theaters will be able to say, having shuttered duri...

It wasn’t called “Scar Literature” for no reason. This adaptation of the Mainland stories that chronicled the crimes of the Cultural Revolut...

Before Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, there was Woman Revenger and Lady Ninja. Starting in 1979, there was an explosion of ROC exploit...

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

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...

Surveys show journalists consistently rank near the bottom of society’s pecking order of respect, right down there with politicians and ...

It is an awkward milestone. Young adults start to take on legal responsibilities at the age of eighteen, but they are still just kids....

You could say Lin Shu-chi came of age with her country. She was a student democracy activist during the period of martial law, but she e...

If you want to see this film, you’d better catch it while you can. The Chinese Communist Party has already denied it permission to scre...

Back in the day, it meant boss or community leader, or so the president of the North Fort crime syndicate tells it. Those days are gone. ...

Nothing drives corruption like government land use policy. Of course, if you throw in some illicit sex and jealousy, things can really g...

The plus is a reference to the iPhone 6+, exactly the kind of coveted gadget that is beyond the reach of luckless losers like Belly Butto...

Taiwan is a democracy with the world’s fifteenth largest economy, but the UN and global diplomatic community wants to pretend it doesn’t ...