J.B. Spins

This heavy, unexploded German bomb fulfills some of its original purposes, causing fear and panic in London—just 80-some years later than in...

During the mid-1990s, tons of filmmakers “stole” from Quentin Tarantino. Presumably the mediocre ones were only borrowing. Regardless, he mu...

It is always super-awkward running into an ex, but especially so during a hostage crisis. Mason Goddard could simply release Amelia Decker i...

Contemporary caper movies clearly suggest computerization made the banking system more susceptible to hacking-savvy thieves. Yet, the truth ...

Robert Whiteman racked up more frequent flyer points than George Clooney in Up in the Air . That was one of the perks of being “The Flying B...

Given the runaway rate of inflation, it now hardly seems worth an armored car crew’s efforts to steal a $42 million shipment of cash from th...

This would be a good day in Los Angeles to do your banking online, for the usual reasons of traffic and street crime. Nevertheless, a rookie...

They are stealing Deutschmarks not Euros, using walkies instead of cellphones. This is the late 1980s, but most of the bank heist busine...

Frankly, it is not hard to fathom how a couple of amateur thieves managed to walk off with a spectacular haul of Pre-Columbian art from t...

In today’s go-go Shanghai, transporting valuable art should be a high-growth business. Unfortunately, Danny Stratton’s company suffers w...

It is based on the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, possibly the most notorious bank robbery in American history not perpetrated by John D...

Most tourists believe they should spend a lot of time on Bourbon Street, because it is famous. Leave it to them. When you are in New Orl...

For two aging former models living in South Africa on their pensions, inflation is way more depressing than liver spots. That assumes the...

It is like Hitchcock’s Rope on MDMA. It is 4:30 in the morning, but the day is not over yet. There is still plenty of hedonism to indulge...

Many think writer Auguste Le Breton joined the French Resistance out of opposition to Vichy’s gambling prohibition. He would survive to b...

Irony was usually lost on Communist apparatchiks. It was especially so in this case. The socialist authorities were completely baffled wh...

There is a long cinematic tradition of gangsters and gunmen who were short of stature, but long on presence. Scottish Ewen McGregor follo...

In the movies, casinos exist just so they can be taken down.  However, one Korean criminal mastermind is not just pulling a heist because...

Evidently, Colombia is now more concerned with armed robbers than Marxist terrorists or drug cartels.  Sounds like progress to me.  It i...

How does Red Sox Nation make ends meet? Evidently, armed robbery is the leading source of employment in the Charlestown section of Boston. E...