Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 3 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

How I Won the War

August 20, 2026

The wardrobe department gave him a pair of round wire-rimmed spectacles. He wore them for the rest of his life. The Beatles had just played…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

August 19, 2026

The book was banned by the occupying Soviet regime. When offered the film adaptation, Miloš Forman refused, fearing for his sons in Czechoslovakia. Instead, he…

Wet Hot American Summer

August 18, 2026

The actors were dressed in shorts and t-shirts and It rained almost every day of the shoot. When a scene needed sunshine, the crew held…

The Addiction

August 17, 2026

The Guardian’s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw named it one of the greatest films of all time. Tokyo Story. Paths of Glory. Raging Bull. Andrei…

A Midnight Clear

August 16, 2026

A whole generation of American film, packed into one small 1992 movie not enough people saw. The director was Keith Gordon, who played the bullied…

Force Majeure

August 15, 2026

A perfect Swedish family sits down to lunch on a restaurant terrace, high in the French Alps. Sun, snow, two blond kids. Then an avalanche…

Tammy and the T-Rex

August 14, 2026

He had access to a life-sized animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex for two weeks before it had to be shipped off to a theme park in Texas.…

A Nightmare on Elm Street

August 13, 2026

In the late 1970s, healthy young men began dying in their sleep. Mostly Hmong refugees, they would go to bed and just not wake up,…

Carnival of Souls

August 12, 2026

He made workplace-safety reels, driver’s-ed shorts, educational filmstrips. He drove past a rotting lakeside pavilion and could not stop picturing dead figures dancing inside it.…

Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven

August 11, 2026

In the notorious 1995 flop Showgirls, there was a background stripper named Penny Slot. Most people forgot about her the moment the credits rolled. Rena…