Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 8 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

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…

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…