Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 2 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

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…

Comin’ at Ya!

September 1, 2026

For a brief and silly stretch of the early 1980s, the movies threw themselves at you. You sat in a packed theater in cardboard glasses,…

Dead of Night

August 30, 2026

Three scientists left a cinema in the 1940s, and one asked a question that would split the field of cosmology for a generation: What if…

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

August 29, 2026

Jacques Demy knew his colors were going to die. He had shot the film in Eastmancolor, and everyone understood that Eastmancolor faded. The colors would…

Phenomena

August 28, 2026

Dario Argento had always been fascinated by bugs. In the early 1980s, he heard a radio story about a murder solved by insects. A body…

Ginger Snaps

August 27, 2026

It finally got made in 1999, in the months right after Columbine, when a violent movie about a murderous teenager was the last thing most…

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

August 26, 2026

The captain hired to deliver a pirate ship to the harbor was so drunk he drove it straight into the quay. Everyone stood on the…

Robot Jox

August 25, 2026

It started as an attempt to film Homer. The hero is named Achilles. The woman he loves is Athena. Stuart Gordon, who had just made…

The Ninth Configuration

August 24, 2026

Five years after The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty had a screenplay nobody wanted. Columbia developed it and let it go. Universal turned it down, according…