Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 16 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

Alice

April 26, 2026

The White Rabbit is a taxidermied specimen in a glass case that breaks its own wires, dresses itself, and escapes. Alice shrinks into a china…

Starcrash

April 25, 2026

Luigi Cozzi had been trying to sell his science fiction project to producers for a year when Star Wars came out in May 1977. The…

Forbidden Zone

April 25, 2026

This is what happens when an avant-garde theatre troupe decides to make a feature film with no money, no script to speak of, and complete…

Paradise

April 24, 2026

“The Blue Lagoon with camels” – that was Vincent Canby’s review in the New York Times, and it is both accurate and insufficient. PARADISE (1982)…

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

April 24, 2026

Since the early 1980s, hundreds of cryptic tiles have been found embedded in the asphalt of major intersections in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Washington…

Flesh Gordon

April 23, 2026

It began as a pornographic film. That is not the most interesting thing about it. FLESH GORDON (1974) was shot as early as 1971 by…

The Peasants

April 23, 2026

The studio in Kyiv had to be shut down after Russia invaded Ukraine. The painters were evacuated. When the studio reopened as fighting eased in…

Liane, Jungle Goddess

April 23, 2026

In 1956, producer Fritz Gerhardt auditioned 12,000 girls before selecting fifteen-year-old Marion Michael as Germany’s answer to Brigitte Bardot. He then sent her to Africa…

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

April 23, 2026

Heath Ledger died midway through the shoot. He had completed all his real-world scenes as Tony – a slippery, seductive drifter who falls in with…

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 22, 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…