J.B. Spins

Driving through wide open and apparently endless highways and rural routes can make you feel disconcertingly exposed. The notion that the...

Don’t get involved. No good deed goes unpunished. Those seem to be the takeaways from this unfortunate story, set in the go-go city of Ch...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the internet. That was sort of Vint Cert and Bob Kahn and kind of Xerox PARC . Berners-Lee created the...

If they can turn the 9-11 Commission’s report into a graphic novel, there is no reason why the Shamgar Commission’s inquiry into the Rabi...

They are the far-right, but if you ask them, they will admit they are really the ultra-left. At least they are self-aware. They also appr...

You have to respect a documentary that comes with an audience warning. In the case of a new profile of the Japanese glam rock-heavy metal...

The Iran-Iraq War is raging and evil Djinn spirits might just be real, but at least Iran’s Basij morality police is there to protect then...

It was a bizarrely mellow song for a trashy exploitation film about killer rats, but “Ben,” the theme from Ben , played a critical role e...

It has been called the Federal government’s most successful program ever. It is also maybe the most aesthetically pleasing. Frankly, the ...

This film was made possible by Margaret Thatcher. By standing firm against Argentine aggression in the Falklands, she fatally undermined ...

Prankster Joey Skaggs must be real—he has his own wikipedia page . Even though we are trained to be skeptical of what we see on the inter...

Shin Sang-ok produced the 3 Ninjas franchise in Hollywood and some of Kim Jong-il’s most ambitious propaganda films. Like his ex-wife, ac...

Francisca is sort of like the protagonists in Oprah Book Club picks. Having suffered a childhood trauma, she is now perpetuating the cycl...

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, except maybe a little exercise, socialization, and the chance to develop self-esteem. For t...

What else are you going to do in a quaint little Canadian burg that still only has dial-up? Watch hockey or read Anne of Green Gables ? A...

Mr. Gale would probably blame Rousseau for what he is about to do, because his advocacy of a child-centered education eventually facilita...

This cat burglar will steal all the style and atmosphere that isn’t nailed down. Narrative does not interest her so much, but it hardly m...

Silver is a mermaid, not so very different from Disney’s Ariel. She likes to sing songs with her sister Golden and frolic in the sea. She...

You might not know Ye Haiyan’s name, but if you attended the Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, you might recognize all her ...