Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 9 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

Village of the Giants

July 9, 2026

Long before he directed Apollo 13 and won an Academy Award, eleven-year-old Ron Howard mixed a batch of bright pink goo in his basement and…

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

July 8, 2026

Before SPIRITED AWAY, before TOTORO, Hayao Miyazaki spent roughly a year on an animated feature he would later call the worst experience of his life.…

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

July 7, 2026

Ask around now and grown men will lower their voices about it. A children’s film that colonized British nightmares. He lives in a place called…

The Pyramid

July 6, 2026

He was Tarantino’s inspiration for Cliff Booth, the stunt man character played by Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. He once faced…

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…