Independent – Page 4 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Hardware

October 7, 2026

A scavenger finds a mangled robot skull in the desert and sells it as scrap, not knowing it still contains a government kill program waiting…

Local Hero

October 7, 2026

An oil billionaire becomes more obsessed with the comet he might glimpse through his telescope than the deal he sent a man across the ocean…

Mystics in Bali

October 6, 2026

A woman studying black magic encounters an old witch who teaches her to transform into a floating, bloodsucking head with trailing organs. MYSTICS IN BALI…

BlackBerry

October 6, 2026

At its peak, one company controlled nearly half the global smartphone market. Within a few years, it controlled almost none of it. BLACKBERRY (2023) tells…

Marketa Lazarová

October 5, 2026

In 1968, Czechoslovak critics voted a medieval epic the greatest Czech film ever made, and international audiences barely got the chance to see it. The…

Man Facing Southeast

October 5, 2026

A man appears one morning in a Buenos Aires psychiatric ward, standing among the other patients as if he has always been there. No one…

The Brother from Another Planet

October 4, 2026

A fugitive slave with three-toed feet crash-lands in New York Harbor, and nobody in Harlem finds that the strangest part of him. THE BROTHER FROM…

People on Sunday

October 4, 2026

None of the five people on screen had ever acted before, and none of them ever would again. They played versions of themselves, using their…

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…