Anywhere But Hollywood – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

sex, lies, and videotape

September 16, 2026

He wrote the script in eight days, on a yellow legal pad, during a drive across the country. When it got into Cannes, he didn’t…

Spring

September 15, 2026

A grieving young man spends his small inheritance on a trip to Italy. He falls in love with a woman, brilliant and beautiful, a little…

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

September 14, 2026

A prisoner sailing home to an island where the sun never sets falls in love with a woman who vanishes before reaching port. His sister…

The Final Programme

September 13, 2026

Mick Jagger was offered the lead and turned it down for being too weird. Michael Moorcock is one of the most prolific fantasy writers who…

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

September 12, 2026

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.” — T.S. Eliot In I’VE HEARD…

On the Silver Globe

September 11, 2026

Andrzej Żuławski was two years and eighty percent into an ambitious, delirious science-fiction epic when the government shut his production down. The Communist authorities in…

The Company of Wolves

September 10, 2026

A British writer rewrote Perrault’s fairy tales as explicitly adult stories of danger and desire. Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood, all reclaimed…

Smooth Talk

September 9, 2026

As a child, she played an extra in a Martin Scorsese film and had to eat an ice cream cone on camera. It took 19…

Run Lola Run

September 8, 2026

It’s become a Hollywood blockbuster trope. The story that splits into branching timelines. The hero who dies, respawns, and tries the level again. Writer-director Tom…

Sliding Doors

September 7, 2026

A man stepped off the curb without looking. A car screeched to a halt an inch from his body. Standing there, heart pounding, he thought:…

Jabberwocky

September 6, 2026

A Python was directing. A Python was starring. It was set in the Middle Ages, arriving right on the heels of Holy Grail. Audiences settled…

Children of the Damned

September 5, 2026

You know the children with the glowing eyes. Platinum blond, moving as one, staring down grown men until they turn their weapons on themselves. Four…