J.B. Spins

Adult film was never so endearing. It is from Japan, you see. So-called Japanese Pinku Eiga or story-driven softish-core has earned its shar...

In Terminator 2 , the villain of the previous film comes back as the hero of the sequel. Such is also the case with Chris Paine’s latest fil...

It was France’s Entebbe. In what is often referred to as “the most successful anti-terrorist operation in history” (at least among those not...

Kids focus on the most superficial things. Ting is a sweet-tempered, compassionate little girl, but her classmates zero-in on her sloppy bra...

Films like Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah and Abel Ferrara’s Napoli Napoli Napoli will give you a pretty good idea why Rosario Russo left Naple...

Class warfare can be ugly. When allowed access to power, it might be deadly. Just ask Paco Larrañaga. A perfect storm of sensational journal...

In Olivier Assayas’s wistful and sophisticated Summer Hours , a family reluctantly sells off their late father’s remarkable collection to pa...

It was a country that never really existed with an economic system that never ever worked. Obviously, Communist Yugoslavia needed constant d...

Don’t call it a discovery. Hollywood has already come calling French director Fred Cavayé. Unfortunately, it was Paul Haggis who remade his ...

Chocolate is the food of romance and indulgence. Two social misfits still love it anyway. They might just love each other too, if they can p...

A country surrounded by homicidal maniacs probably does not have much need for horror movies. Perhaps that is why it took over sixty years f...

Steve Delarue is a financial shark. France Leroi is a single mother, who is laid-off when her factory abruptly closes (but what a name she h...

If not necessarily the road not taken, A Tribe Called Quest definitely represents a road less traveled for hip-hop. Influenced by jazz and A...

Launched in 2002 to help revitalize a Lower Manhattan still reeling from the September 11th terrorist attack, the Tribeca Film Festival has...

Now a place synonymous with violence and discord, Beirut was once the high-spirited party spot of the Middle East. Teta Fatima’s late husban...

Ingrid Jonker was on the right side of history. Unfortunately, she was nearly impossible to live with. Often dubbed the “South African Sylvi...

In Holland, Santa is not the same jolly old elf. He has his menacing “Black Peter” sidekicks, who are supposedly from Spain, but hardly seem...

If young Mia’s experiences are representative, most environmentalists are more inclined to squabble amongst themselves rather than to take c...

They were the forgotten allies of World War One. The Chinese government sided against Germany and even supplied men to the cause, whom the a...

Brooklyn-based Vik Muniz takes understandable pride in his status as Brazil’s most collectable contemporary artist. Whatever captures his in...