Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 7 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

The Ramen Girl

August 1, 2026

Brittany Murphy told her director she had only ever been hired to play cute or crazy. She doubted she could do anything else. So they…

The Werewolf of Woodstock

July 31, 2026

Dick Clark spent fifty years as the most wholesome man in American pop music. He also produced a movie about a hippie-hating farmer who becomes…

Executive Action

July 30, 2026

It was the first major film to dramatize a conspiracy behind the Kennedy assassination. It was pulled from theaters within a month and not seen…

Three Giant Men

July 29, 2026

Spider-Man is a violent psychopath who runs a counterfeiting operation in Istanbul. He is opposed by Captain America, who has no shield, and a Mexican…

Welcome to the Dollhouse

July 28, 2026

He made his first feature for a studio, lost control of it, and hated the result so much he spent years telling people not to…

Map of the Human Heart

July 27, 2026

He was hired to make the third Alien film. His vision was a planet made of wood: a monastery in space and an order of…

The Monster That Challenged the World

July 26, 2026

It had one of the grandest titles in science fiction history. Its monster turned out to be a giant snail. THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE…

Within the Woods

July 25, 2026

Two years before The Evil Dead (1981), Sam Raimi shot a 32-minute horror film over one weekend for $1,600. The plan: make something scary enough…

Nice Girls Don’t Explode

July 24, 2026

She deliberately chose roles in movies she expected to fail, so she’d never have to be famous. Despite this, she won a Tony and an…

The Return

July 23, 2026

This “Odyssey” came out in 2024, starred two Oscar nominees (one winner), and played to near-empty theaters despite critical acclaim. While Iphigenia (1977) gave us…

Hatching

July 22, 2026

She runs a family blog. Every post shows the perfect home, the perfect marriage, the perfect daughter. Her followers do not see that her twelve-year-old…

The Love Witch

July 21, 2026

In Obsession (2026), a hopeless young man casts a love spell on a woman and it threatens to destroy them both. 10 years ago, one…