International – Page 8 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Haunted

April 23, 2026

Its London premiere was attended by Princess Diana. In the United States it went straight to video. HAUNTED (1995) is an adaptation of James Herbert’s…

The Girl on a Motorcycle

April 23, 2026

It was the first film to receive an X rating in the United States under the newly introduced system, and was recut by Warner Bros.…

Photographing Fairies

April 23, 2026

In 1917, two young girls in the village of Cottingley in Yorkshire produced five photographs that appeared to show fairies. Arthur Conan Doyle, who had…

Things to Come

April 23, 2026

Arthur C. Clarke showed it to Stanley Kubrick early in the development of 2001. Kubrick disliked it. After seeing 2001, Frederik Pohl observed that the…

Blue My Mind

April 20, 2026

The mermaid has always been male fantasy made flesh – and fin. This film twists the fantasy into something biting and precise. Lisa Brühlmann’s 2017…

The Spirit of the Beehive

April 19, 2026

A 1973 film about a child in 1940 watching a movie made in 1931. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE was made under Franco’s dictatorship, which…

Creatures the World Forgot

April 18, 2026

Hammer Films made three prehistoric spectaculars. The first had Raquel Welch in a fur bikini, plus Ray Harryhausen’s dinosaurs. The second had Victoria Vetri in…

Paperhouse

April 16, 2026

PAPERHOUSE is sometimes categorized as a children’s fantasy film. It’s really not. Bernard Rose (Candyman) adapted it in 1988 from Catherine Storr’s 1958 novel Marianne…

Unforgiven

April 15, 2026

Hollywood remakes Japanese films all the time. Japan remaking Hollywood is rarer. Japan remaking a film that was itself a spiritual descendant of Kurosawa? That’s…

Starship Invasions

April 12, 2026

In the summer of 1977, Star Wars came out and changed science fiction forever. A few months later, Canada released STARSHIP INVASIONS, and it did…