Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 6 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

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…

Sisters

August 10, 2026

He was haunted by a story in Life magazine about a pair of conjoined twins. In the photo the two girls sat side by side,…

I Origins

August 9, 2026

This was never meant to be the film. It was supposed to be the backstory. After Fox Searchlight acquired Another Earth, co-writer Mike Cahill sold…

Heathers

August 8, 2026

It was his first screenplay and he had exactly one director in mind. Only Stanley Kubrick could pull off a three-hour black comedy about a…

Dark Days

August 7, 2026

They built a village beneath the streets of Manhattan. Shacks of scavenged wood, wired for electricity tapped off the city grid, furnished with salvaged couches…

American Pop

August 6, 2026

For 17 years, it was one of the most requested films in America. You could not legally buy it or rent it. It played on…

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

August 5, 2026

Alone in her attic bedroom at night, a teenage girl pricks her finger, smears the blood across her laptop screen, and says the words three…

Equinox

August 4, 2026

Four young people find an ancient cursed book in the woods and are attacked by a horde of demons – more than a decade before…

Another Earth

August 3, 2026

She graduated valedictorian at Georgetown and turned down a job at Goldman Sachs to make movies. Hollywood saw a cute blonde, decorative, interchangeable. She decided…

Melvin and Howard

August 2, 2026

Driving through the desert, Melvin sees a battered old man lying by the road. He stops to help and the man tells him he is…