J.B. Spins

The new Batman from Mexico is nothing like the 1968 Lucha Libre-inspired The Batwoman . There is no camp this time around, nor is it an expl...

Juan F. Moctezuma II might be the only filmmaker who ever cost Roger Corman money. According to filmmaker and Moctezuma scholar Alaric S. Ro...

Forget all the Freudian baloney. Nightmares don’t come from the dreamer’s subconscious. They are written in a parallel dream realm. Communic...

Like most people working in [tabloid] journalism, Santiago takes a flexible approach to ethics. He often bends the rules and bribes cops, bu...

Compared to the shadowy host who abducted these seven people, U.N. Owen was a model of hospitality in And Then There Were None . At least he...

Jose Sanchez del Rio is a saint for all Catholics. He was venerated by Pope John Paul II, beautified by Pope Benedict XVI, and canonized by ...

Mexico is a very Catholic country, but also one that is plagued with violence. There are plenty of fears and anxieties rattling around t...

Gaze into the near future of Mexico, when drug cartels will control every aspect of life. Call it ninety minutes from now. Most average ...

How is it possible the original In Search of overlooked Mexico’s Mapimí Silent Zone (a.k.a. “The Zone of Silence”)—and yet it did. Howev...

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...

These are not Dickensian street urchins. They are the orphans of Mexico’s drug wars. They survive hand-to-mouth on the streets, constant...

In a town like Park City, the evils of time share sales require little explanation. Alas, poor Pedro could have used a good cautionary ta...

In the 1970s, consumer 8mm was largely for A-V geeks. Most of them were not aspiring indie filmmakers. Instead, they used the format to d...

When was the last time a psychologist actually helped a patient in any movie? Perhaps Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P ? And before that? Davi...

Eighteen years is a long prison stretch for killing someone in a fair gun duel, especially when the other party had been goading the unas...

The doctor considers it a Crichton-esque super-virus. His musician-lover sees it more as the pent-up release of the masses’ accumulated p...

Mariano is sort of a Mexican cross between Tool Time Tim Allen and the Marquis de Sade. He has no use for bourgeoisie morality, but he su...

Skid Row looks mostly the same everywhere, but in Mexico City, you can also find down-on-their-luck luchador wrestlers. In the case of “L...

That copy of Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint could come in handy for Carlos. While his situation is somewhat different, it could help ...

Sonia Bonet’s family is a real risk-pool buster. Sure, her husband’s experimental treatment is easy enough to disallow, but her resulting...