J.B. Spins

Josef Richter’s life could inspire a truly great narrative film. In 1943, the Polish resistance fighter knowingly infiltrated Sobibor wit...

Joshua Connor has the Australian version of The Shine. The grizzled farmer senses certain things, like where to drill for water. If he ca...

There have been many notable fusions of jazz and South Asian musical forms over the years, such as Buddy Rich’s percussion duets with All...

They say for fastball pitchers, it more about movement and location then velocity, unless they can hurl it over 100 mph. In that case, it...

Raymond J. Cutter is not exactly Raffles or the Pink Panther. This working class art thief and forger is a decidedly Gloomy Gus. His son ...

If Andrew Vachss made a Giallo in Mumbai, you would have to give it your full attention. Arguably, India could use a child protection adv...

When you are waiting to possibly die, telling stories is a fine way to pass the time—especially if you have sworn off hanky-panky. Such i...

Hahou Mo is no Hannibal Lecter, but this will still be a case where a killer is recruited to catch a killer. In his thirst to become the ...

Stelios Dimitrakopoulos is a jazz club owner in Greece. It should therefore come as no surprise to learn he is a terrible businessman. Wi...

Anne Frank should have had the chance to become a young woman like Anita. Although she is a Holocaust survivor, she is ready to start liv...

Before the Khmer Rouge take-over, Phnom Penh was a happening city, particularly if you were a musician. Once their reign of terror commen...

It is a scrappy underdog story, whose hero is the world’s oldest automotive company. Granted, old Henry Ford was a hard cuss to love, but...

The sports media loves to depict New England Coach Bill Belichick as a football genius and the New York Football Giants’ Tom Coughlin as ...

The savage Charlie Hebdo shootings only just happened on January 7 th of this year, but one can already feel complacency re-settling bac...

These are wasps, not bees, so the stakes are already higher than in Irwin Allen’s The Swarm . A plucky caterer and her slacker assistant...

If you think the burqa is empowering, try wearing one for a week in August. Then try reporting your violent and sexually abusive husband ...

The world’s oldest continuous horse race is a full contact, bareback spectacle. The rules seem perversely designed to maximize acrimony a...

If you have read your Hemingway nonfiction, you know aficionados identify with two types of matadors. There are the naturals who just exu...

There is nothing like music to summon deeply buried sense-memories. That is why music therapists have had such success treating Alzheimer...