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

The Boy Who Could Fly

July 5, 2026

He terrified a generation as the original Michael Myers in John Carpenter’s Halloween. Eight years later, the same man wrote and directed one of the…

Godzilla

July 4, 2026

In 1977, Luigi Cozzi secured the Italian rights to Godzilla (1954). Unable to sell the black and white film, he colored it himself. And padded…

The Lathe of Heaven

July 3, 2026

For more than a decade, the most requested program in American public television history was one almost no one could see. Its broadcast rights had…

In the Soup

July 2, 2026

It beat Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. Then it disappeared for twenty-five years. The reasons were…

Fascination

July 1, 2026

In 1905, it was fashionable for anemic women in Paris to visit slaughterhouses and drink fresh ox blood. Doctors prescribed it as a cure. Jean…

A Monster Calls

June 30, 2026

A dying writer was inspired to write a story about a boy with a dying mother. The writer passed away before she could finish it.…

Shadow of the Vampire

June 29, 2026

A director hires a real vampire to make the most frightening film ever shot. He tells his crew the strange, gaunt man who appears only…

Longtime Companion

June 28, 2026

In the 1980s, when a gay man died of AIDS, newspapers would not name the person he loved as his partner. The obituary might use…

Green Snake

June 27, 2026

Six years after producing A Chinese Ghost Story, Tsui Hark inverted a legend and directed one of the most sensual and visually drunk fantasies Hong…

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

June 26, 2026

Disney tried to kill it. A screenwriter who had watched a comedian turn up unannounced at LA comedy clubs wrote a part for him: a…

Shock Treatment

June 25, 2026

Brad and Janet, the couple from Rocky Horror, live in a town that has been transformed into a giant TV studio. Brad is committed to…

Doggy Poo

June 24, 2026

A small pile of dog poop is left at the side of a country road. It opens its eyes, looks around, and begins to wonder…

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