Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 12 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

Blood Beach

June 3, 2026

The tagline is a small work of genius: “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, you can’t get to…

Dogtooth

June 2, 2026

“Zombie” is a small yellow flower. “Sea” is an armchair. Some parents shield their children from the world. These parents do it by intentionally getting…

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 Changeling

May 30, 2026

In the late 1960s, co-writer Russell Hunter rented the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion in Denver. He said the house was haunted. Doors slammed, faucets turned…

The City of Lost Children

May 29, 2026

This is a fairy tale with rust under its fingernails. A scientist on a platform in a fog-bound sea cannot dream, causing him to age…

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…

Sex and Lucía

May 26, 2026

Most films have one beginning. This one has two, and you can start from either. SEX AND LUCIA, the 2001 film from Spanish director Julio…

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…

Too Hot to Handle

May 25, 2026

A cosmetics magnate is lured into a mud bath and killed with skin-rejuvenation electrodes. A man is coaxed into a bedroom, whipped and suffocated. Cheri…

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…