Independent – Page 5 – Anywhere But Hollywood

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…

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…