Anywhere But Hollywood – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

Requiem

September 21, 2026

In 2005 Hollywood turned the real tragedy of a young woman’s death into a supernatural thriller with the usual horror tropes. One year after The…

Slums of Beverly Hills

September 20, 2026

A broke father can’t afford Beverly Hills, but is determined to send his three kids to the best public schools. So they become nomads, packing…

Waitress

September 19, 2026

A waitress bakes her whole inner life into her pies, her longings and sorrows and small rebellions. Pregnant and trapped in a marriage with a…

Night Tide

September 18, 2026

A lonely sailor on shore leave falls for a beautiful young woman who works the pier as a sideshow mermaid. He learns that the men…

Truly Madly Deeply

September 17, 2026

Half a year after the world wept over a dead man coming back to throw pottery with Demi Moore, a small British film did something…

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…