International – Anywhere But Hollywood

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…

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…

Run Lola Run

September 8, 2026

It’s become a Hollywood blockbuster trope. The story that splits into branching timelines. The hero who dies, respawns, and tries the level again. Writer-director Tom…

Sliding Doors

September 7, 2026

A man stepped off the curb without looking. A car screeched to a halt an inch from his body. Standing there, heart pounding, he thought:…

Jabberwocky

September 6, 2026

A Python was directing. A Python was starring. It was set in the Middle Ages, arriving right on the heels of Holy Grail. Audiences settled…

Children of the Damned

September 5, 2026

You know the children with the glowing eyes. Platinum blond, moving as one, staring down grown men until they turn their weapons on themselves. Four…

Never Let Me Go

September 3, 2026

A celebrated novelist wrote a book everyone agreed was chilling science fiction. He kept gently correcting his readers. It is not science fiction, he said.…

Until the End of the World

September 2, 2026

He shot the film across four continents. It was almost five hours long. His distributors demanded he cut it in half. So he made a…