Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 17 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

Things to Come

April 22, 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…

The Apple

April 22, 2026

Audience members were handed free vinyl records of the soundtrack as they entered. By the fillm’s end, they were throwing them at the screen. THE…

Lifeforce

April 21, 2026

In 1985, Cannon Films gave Tobe Hooper $25 million, a novel about space vampires, and what he later described as the freedom to make a…

Chosen Survivors

April 20, 2026

A computer selects eleven people at random. They are sedated, loaded onto helicopters, and deposited into a state-of-the-art nuclear bunker two miles beneath the desert.…

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…

Escape from Tomorrow

April 17, 2026

Somebody made a horror film inside Walt Disney World and Disneyland without asking Disney. They used tiny cameras, dressed the cast as ordinary tourists, hid…

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…

Angel

April 14, 2026

The tagline was “High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night.” Audiences showed up for the premise and stayed for an incongruously warm-hearted…

Eyes of Fire

April 13, 2026

Before The Witch. Before Midsommar. Before folk horror hit the mainstream as a popular subgenre, Avery Crounse made EYES OF FIRE in Missouri in 1983.…

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…