J.B. Spins

He was the first fashion designer to be given his own exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was recently the subject of a comp...

In the future, the world will become a giant allegory. Nothing in this claustrophobic dystopia performs a practical purpose, but serves a...

Napster-generation kids will probably never appreciate the art of liner notes. Obviously, there is no place to put them on an illegal dow...

In 1975, Hong Kong was a Crown Colony that wanted to stay that way. Therefore, do not expect them to have much sympathy for an Irish assa...

Which is more deadly, Angela Mao Ying’s hapkido or George Lazenby’s mustache? It had better be Mao, because the one-and-done Bond eventua...

Where could you find a heroic film treatment of a European Christian missionary? Hong Kong in 1973. Father Lewis (Lu Yi) is a true humani...

Help yourself to some spicy hot and sweet entrepreneurship. When Saigon fell, the enterprisingly minded ethnic Chinese David Tran underst...

He was a Republican, but some of his most significant work is found in New York, Boston, and Washington, DC. He saw Manhattan’s Central P...

As a hitman for the mob, Gon is sure to have mother issues. He is also living with a case of soul-crushing guilt. Not surprisingly, he ac...

Not long after WWII, the Axis nations were fully integrated back into the international community. In contrast, the Serbs ousted Milosevi...

She retired in 1992, but she is still one of the biggest stars around. She brought down the house presenting the Asia Star Award to her f...

Why did the documentarian come to the coastal Puerto Rican village? For the grant money, of course. This might be the most honest portray...

Torgny Segerstedt is considered the paragon of Swedish leftist journalists, but he had no love for the Soviets. In 1924, the future criti...

It is sort of like Fincher’s The Game , with the economic sensibilities of Glengarry Glen Ross . Supposedly, its origins trace back to an...

These days, getting one’s affairs in order should include a digital component, as two grown siblings learn in vivid terms. When cleaning ...

Suppose Schrödinger’s cat threw a dinner party. He would probably serve tuna and quantum physics. The notion of quantum superposition mad...

It might be summer, but Eric Rohmer characters never get a vacation from their personality hang-ups. Strangely, they are still good compa...