J.B. Spins

High school is the ultimate horror mainstay. From Carrie to Scream , there have probably been more horror movies and TV series set within th...

You remember from Ghostbusters how bad it is when cats and dogs are living together? It is even worse for vampires and witches. Nevertheless...

James Alfred Wight sold millions of books and was recognized with a CBE on the queen’s honors list, but his prospects seemed rather modest i...

Only war can make a twenty-year-old this emotionally deadened and world-weary. That is what happens to Arturs Vanags. During a four year-per...

It turns out classic Toho monster movies did not go far enough. It wasn’t just some stray turtle getting radiated into a mutant monster. It ...

It is sort of like L ifestyles of the Rich and Famous, with Really, Really Good Taste . There are not a lot of Rembrandt paintings in privat...

“ Please Don't Come Back from the Moon” was a typically complex composition Charles Mingus recorded during his notorious 1962 Town Hall ...

In the 1930s, the motion picture industry was reluctant to criticize Hitler, fearing their films would suffer in the German market. So how d...

This is Moscow, where everything goes. No matter how wild the game might be, there is always a big enough palm to grease. Logically, this is...

As murder mysteries go, this one is relatively small in scale, but you still wouldn’t call it a cozy. There are really two mysteries in need...

If you have to be stalked by a doppelganger, they should at least make an effort to look like you, right? Not necessarily in Yorgos Lanthimo...

It is an early red state-blue state culture-clash that takes an uncanny turn. State Trooper Robert Franklin is a military veteran state troo...

Maybe you don't remember the part about the monster on the plane’s wing in Randall Jarrell classic poem, “Death of a Ball Turret Gunner,...

Hector Bebenco was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Argentina, but he pursued a career in filmmaking after moving to Brazil. Occasionally...

She taught millions of young readers respect for family and the self-reliant pioneering spirit. She wrote from the perspective of a daughter...

Remember, this is supposed to be fun. People go to great lengths and expense to enjoy a scuba-diving vacation. Swedish sisters Ida and Tuva ...

Joseph Mersault's family does not hunt because they are cruel. It is not even a matter of sport. If they do not hunt and trap for meat a...

When it was originally released, it nearly killed Francis Ford Coppola’s career—yet again, even though it was sufficiently well-received in ...

By definition, there can't be a strike in the socialist workers’ paradise, so there must have been something deeply amiss in the provinc...

The X-Files gets credit for taking paranormal paranoia mainstream, but Quinn Martin got there first. Keep in mind, his alien infiltration se...