J.B. Spins

Has this been the naughtiest Tribeca Film Festival ever? In addition to Pinku Eiga , a short smut doc, and Spanish sex-trafficking hipster-n...

As a New Yorker, I am honor-bound to launch a protest when another city is crowned “Smut Capital of America.” Hello, Times Square? Still, fi...

Sergeant Gerry Boyle is too corrupt to be corrupted. The Archie Bunker of the Garda (with a dash of Hunter S. Thompson), his flaws are manif...

Mother Klitschko is no fun. She expressly prohibited her boxer sons Vitali and Wladimir from fighting each other. Of course, that is exactly...

The wave of protests sweeping the Middle East started in Iran, but it was the Islamist government that supplied all the rage. Their crackdow...

America is so puritanical. Those Christian Evangelicals in particular get so judgmental about stuff like white slavery. The sophisticated Sp...

Japan’s post-war economic comeback is usually defined by the rise of automotive and electronics giants, such as Toyota and Sony. Yet, during...

Call it gangster government. During China’s lawless 1920’s, adventurers bought governorships to make a quick score bleeding the locals dry t...

If you are considering watching her documentary, Carolyn Cassady thinks you are kind of an idiot. She has no illusions regarding people’s in...

He was a legendarily honest and perceptive administrator during the turbulent reign of Wu Zeitan, the first and only woman to rule China in ...

They say kids will be kids. Maybe that is true, but why can’t adults act like adults? While the behavior of some sadistic students is repreh...

“We have met the enemy and he is us,” Walt Kelly told us. Icelandic comedian Jón Gnarr recently proved it is still true with his unlikely ca...

Prepare for a pitched battle of Michael Caine impressions. There will also be gourmet food. British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon pl...

Welcome to the early 1980’s, the era of Commodore computers and oppressive prog rock. Anyone jonesing for the garish look and casual disrega...

Adult film was never so endearing. It is from Japan, you see. So-called Japanese Pinku Eiga or story-driven softish-core has earned its shar...

In Terminator 2 , the villain of the previous film comes back as the hero of the sequel. Such is also the case with Chris Paine’s latest fil...

It was France’s Entebbe. In what is often referred to as “the most successful anti-terrorist operation in history” (at least among those not...

Kids focus on the most superficial things. Ting is a sweet-tempered, compassionate little girl, but her classmates zero-in on her sloppy bra...

Films like Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah and Abel Ferrara’s Napoli Napoli Napoli will give you a pretty good idea why Rosario Russo left Naple...

Class warfare can be ugly. When allowed access to power, it might be deadly. Just ask Paco Larrañaga. A perfect storm of sensational journal...