Independent – Page 2 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Repo Man

October 3, 2026

There is a 1964 Chevy Malibu driving around Los Angeles with something in its trunk that turns anyone who opens it into a smoking pile…

The Hourglass Sanatorium

October 3, 2026

A train carries a young man to a sanatorium where time itself has broken down, where the dead are only somewhat dead, kept alive by…

Goodnight Mommy

October 2, 2026

A woman comes home to her twin sons wrapped head to toe in surgical bandages, and the boys decide the person beneath them cannot possibly…

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

October 1, 2026

A painter is hired to complete a wedding portrait, but she cannot tell her subject she is being painted. So she watches in secret, memorizing…

Border

October 1, 2026

In this story by the author of Let the Right One In, a customs officer can smell guilt on travelers before they know they carry…

One from the Heart

September 30, 2026

Francis Ford Coppola spent twenty-six million dollars recreating Las Vegas on a soundstage, down to a scale model of the Strip lit by thousands of…

Get Crazy

September 29, 2026

A rock star has locked himself in his hotel room, terrified of the stage, while a corporate shark schemes to bring the whole theater down…

Sweetie

September 28, 2026

A woman believes a stray leaf falling into her yard is a sign about the man she’s destined to love. Her sister believes she is…

Give My Regards to Broad Street

September 27, 2026

A former Beatle once spent a fortune of his own money making a movie about losing a tape. GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET (1984)…

Attenberg

September 27, 2026

A detached young woman studies nature documentaries to learn how humans are supposed to move, mate, and grieve. She practices kissing on her best friend.…

Frankenstein Unbound

September 26, 2026

A weapon designed to end all wars instead tears a hole in time itself, and pulls its own inventor through it, car and all, dropping…

Wings of Desire

September 25, 2026

Berlin, before the Wall came down, was a city full of people who could not hear each other. Above them moved figures who could hear…

Bagdad Cafe

September 23, 2026

A German tourist in a heavy tweed suit walks alone down a Mojave Desert highway, dragging a suitcase. She has just left her husband stranded…

Chronovisor

September 23, 2026

In the 1960s, an Italian monk said he had built a machine that could tune into the past like a television. He said he had…

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…