Independent – Page 9 – Anywhere But Hollywood

The Twonky

June 1, 2026

A professor’s wife buys him a television set to keep him company while she is away. It stands up, walks across the floor, and lights…

Sweet Smell of Success

May 31, 2026

No studio dared touch the material – but it got made anyway. And was a primary inspiration for Mad Men. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)…

The Strangeness

May 28, 2026

The creature was designed to resemble a fusion of male and female genitalia. The plot concerns a survey team entering the abandoned Golden Spike Mine,…

Lost Highway

May 27, 2026

A stranger rang David Lynch’s doorbell. A voice came through the intercom: “Dick Laurent is dead.” Lynch never found out who was at the door…

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

May 25, 2026

Hugh Everett III proposed the theory that every quantum event causes the universe to branch into a parallel reality. His son Mark leads the band…

But I’m a Cheerleader

May 24, 2026

A teenage girl is ambushed by her parents. They want her to confess to being a lesbian. Their evidence: she likes tofu, keeps a Melissa…

Target Earth

May 23, 2026

The robot invasion consisted of one robot. The eerily deserted street scenes were filmed at dawn before traffic started. The city feels abandoned not because…

Ms .45

May 22, 2026

She is a mute seamstress in the New York garment district. In a single day she is attacked twice. Then she takes the gun. MS.…

Miracle Mile

May 20, 2026

A payphone rings. A man picks up. A voice panics: “It’s happening!” Nuclear warheads have been launched. Los Angeles will be gone in seventy minutes.…

Vesper

May 19, 2026

They spent ten years pitching English-language sci-fi projects. Then they went home to Lithuania and made one of the most fully realized dystopian worlds in…

Bloody Bridget

May 17, 2026

Richard Elfman founded Oingo Boingo before his younger brother Danny Elfman joined the band and eventually left to become one of the most celebrated film…

Liquid Sky

May 14, 2026

Aliens land on the roof in a ship the size of a dinner plate – searching for heroin. They discover something better: the endorphin released…

Becky

May 12, 2026

A fourteen-year-old girl discovers that she is far more dangerous than the escaped convicts who have taken her family hostage. She dispatches them using, among…

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays

May 10, 2026

Wayyyyyyyyy before Wicked. Wayyy before MGM’s The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum (El-Pha-Ba… get it?) stood on stage in a white suit, delivering a…

God Told Me To

May 9, 2026

A Catholic detective hunts a cult leader who may be his half-brother, born from the same extraterrestrial visitation. This film is a police procedural, then…