J.B. Spins

Andrew Kincaid is like the Mike Bloomberg of gaming companies. An ardent gun control supporter, he coins the slogan: “keep guns in games....

Aspiring young burglars should remember you should case the joint for at least two months before pulling a job and always try to get an i...

In their Manzai comedy duo act, Jitsudo is definitely the Martin to Unno’s Lewis, but the straight man can’t even croon. Unfortunately, w...

In some countries, karaoke is looked down on, largely due to the red light districts they are mostly found in (and the activities that th...

The cars are flashy, the bullets are plentiful, and the women are demurely veiled. Prepare yourself for some bickering buddy-cops, Malays...

Busan is home to one of Asia’s most important film festivals. It happens to be a fest with a large midnight section, so they are probably...

Some royals crafted humanitarian images for themselves simply by attending a few charitable cocktail parties and looking good in Versace....

It is a film so powerful, it causes disorientation, short-term psychosis, and violent rioting, but it is still more entertaining to watch...

Just when you thought it was safe to walk barefoot on the beach again, the cone snails attack. You have to pick them up first, but if you...

Hong Kong cinema gave the world Ko Chun, the Mr. Lucky who can’t lose in the God of Gamblers/From Vegas to Macao franchises. Now Taiwan o...

Typically, movie invisibility comes in two flavors: would be world-dominating mad scientists and girls’ locker room hijinks. However, for...

Remember when the Wall Street Journal ’s dart board regularly outperformed the professional stock-pickers? At least that is how we like t...

Shero makes Grumpy Cat look like a pretentious poser. He is an animated feline in the tradition of Fritz the Cat and Bill the Cat. The Tu...

Japanese Danchi housing complexes are sort of like old school Czech[oslovakian] Panelák buildings. During the immediate post-war years, t...

These distantly inter-related characters are all in various states of love. Therefore, they are all also profoundly miserable. Of course,...

Dr. Drew could have told them it would end badly, but even he would be surprised by the chaos wrought. A horny man-child convinces his gi...

The teen Manga-creating manga characters Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi are so popular, one of their fictional series has been noveliz...

During WWII, Kokura was a major center of munitions production, but it dodged the mother of all bullets twice. It was the back-up target ...

Any self-help book that is actually legitimate should be the first and last one you’d ever need to read. Likewise, going through a proces...