J.B. Spins

This time around, Max Cady wisely ditches the “love” and “hate” knuckle tattoos, in favor of the more New Age-sounding “Lost” and “Past.” Ad...

For movie lovers, the 1965 MGM Vault Fire represents a profound tragedy. Amongst the films destroyed therein were the last surviving (as far...

They might not look like it, but Kang Jae-pil and Park Sang-goo have cousins in West Virginia. Their names are Tucker and Dale, who once fou...

Casual viewers might think of fantasy heroes as virtuous Tolkienesque dragonslayers, but for real fans, the irresponsible antiheroes are eve...

Andres Baiz’s Spanish film, The Hidden Face, is starting to generate as many international remakes as Oirol Paulo’s The Invisible Guest . ...

He was born in a notoriously violent and grotesque Troma movie. Less than seven years later, he was starring in a children’s cartoon. It did...

It used to be a garden variety Ouija board that picked up a bad passenger, but for the reboot, it has been upgraded to a very rare and very ...

With this film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa joined the company of Michael Haneke ( Funny Games ), Takashi Shimizu ( The Grudge ), George Sluizer ( The ...

In the movies, the have’s are always stupid and lazy, whereas the have-not’s are always smart and virtuous. In real life, there are plenty o...

Remember, your new vacations friends probably are not that funny. Most likely, it is really just the wine. Most people realize it would be a...

Presumably, it is profoundly too late for Daniel Bloch to be a father to his son, but at least the kid will not judge him too harshly. Allen...

Compared to Lino Ventura’s network in Army of Shadows , it looks like Marie-Helene Dumoulin’s “Vaillance” Resistance group had an above-aver...

Ironically, a zombie apocalypse breaks out while a film crew is shooting a zombie movie. But wait, there’s more—as those who have seen Shini...

When it comes to amateur sleuths, Neve Kelly is unusually highly motivated, especially for a Gen Z’er. The murder she is trying to solve is ...

Yes, it is another reboot gender-switcheroo, but in this case, Stewart and Cyril Marcus probably would not object, even if they could. They ...

Vicenzo Natali's 1997 film gave fans some life-and-death math well before Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code —with an emphasis on the death part....

This is one Stephen King property that can probably be remade without a lot of pressure. The first film from 1984 remains popular, despite d...

More people were killed in Roger Spottiswoode’s 1980 train-bound slasher movie than during Runaway Train, Silver Streak, or Murder on the O...

Traditionally, vampires were tall, dark, and handsome, lustily populating hot-blooded, sexually-charged gothic horror stories. Then Tomas Al...

This beloved TV family was more apple pie-American than the Waltons, the Cleavers, or the Simpsons, but they originally hailed from Transylv...