J.B. Spins

It is sort of like Stephen King’s Under the Doom , but with gallons more gore. The director claims he used four tons of fake blood, but t...

Here is a scary thought—when humanity starts to integrate itself with digital systems, it will become susceptible to both physical and co...

He is sort of like an East German Sherlock Holmes. His powers of deduction and persuasion are so keen, some of his atheist materialist co...

When it comes to mer-people, the Celts have their selkie, the Slavs have the rusalka, and Japan tells tales of the ningyo. Those ningyo l...

Kenji Miyazawa’s Night on the Galactic Railroad is the one Japanese children’s book non-Japanese speakers might know and even own. It has...

It sounds like a Cosmo punchline, but it is acutely human. For millennia, mankind has only survived as remnants within androids. Yet, by ...

It’s easy to play up the bittersweet moments in an American Graffiti­ -style end-of-an-era night of partying. However, if you can find th...

Whether it is the far future or the distant past, the environment is a sinister force not to be trifled with. We’re talking about poisone...

It was one of the first films to be “ripped from the headlines.” Although, the great auteur sometimes denied it, his classic M was transp...

Legendary jazz producer Norman Granz knew what he was doing. It would be quite a challenge for just about any musician to make their Amer...

Call it the Gallic corollary to the Broken Windows Theory. By allowing racist intimidation to continue unchecked, the Gendarmerie actuall...

It the far future. The clones have rebelled against humanity (or what passes for it), but they did not get very far. They are still at th...

King Taksin defeated the constant waves of Burmese invaders, unified his country as the Thonburi Kingdom, and promoted trade with the Eur...

It was ethnic cleansing before there was such a term. During the Stalinist era, most of the ethnic Kalmyks who had not died of starvation...

Dr. Kim Joon-young is caught in the worst Groundhog’s Day ever. Like clockwork, he keeps waking up on his Seoul-bound flight, knowing he ...

Nadine might have a hard time recouping her deposit on the remote Belgian mansion she rented for a drunken New Year’s blowout. As usual, ...

Physicists and philosophers like to argue thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and chaos theory have vanquished Pierre-Simon Laplace’s theo...

Kang Mi-hee was Catholic, but she could still recognize bad feng shui when she was living right smack dab in the middle of it. We are tal...

There was a time when you had to deal with people if you wanted to play video games. Players would put their quarters up to claim the nex...