J.B. Spins

In Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas (but weirdly, not the inferior film adaptation, The Ninth Gate ), a seedy bookseller searches for a...

Thanks to Sil ence of the Lambs , dozens of subsequent movies and books featured cops seeking the advice of convicted serial killers to catc...

Everyone who lives at The Lafayette has their thing. Harrison Hardy’s oddity is a recurring dream that his childhood home had an attic, when...

This film is like a clown car loaded with symbolism. No matter how hard you try, you will probably never finish unpacking it. It also has so...

England wasn’t so merry in the 1930s. The economy was depressed, nativism was on the rise, and war was brewing. Worst of all, the world’...

Unfortunately, Congress will probably have to apply the Magnitsky Act to more Russian officials after this explosive kerfuffle. The Russ...

Fan conventions are quite a shrewd place to pull off a heist-caper. There is tons of cash floating around, as well as a bunch of distrac...

Giacomo Casanova and Don Giovanni were not the same, but it will become even easier to confuse the two after this film. It is sort of a g...

This dog definitely has a purpose—to bite your face off. He was trained to be a killer, but he exceeded his handler’s expectations. Now h...

During the Cold War, there were a number of traitors who did indeed betray America and the UK for ideological or pecuniary reasons. In th...

Torres Vedras was not exactly Waterloo, but don’t tell the Portuguese that.  It was there Gen. Wellington and the combined British and P...

When J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace was first published, the South African Nobel Laureate became the first writer to ever win a second Booker Priz...

Mutant Chronicles Directed by Simon Hunter Magnolia Pictures Where can you find a positive portrayal of religious faith in the movies today...