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August 15, 2006

PEZ, the movie

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When I first heard about this I was pretty excited because I thought they were going to make a movie about PE'Z, the Japanese jazz band. Unfortunately this movie is actually about PEZ, the brick shaped sweets along with their wierd head-on-a-stick dispensers..

They're disembodied heads on sticks people, and you snap their necks backwards to get the candy out of them. It's unnatural and it's wrong. No child should have to see Mickey Mouse's severed head perched on a stick like some sort of traitor to the king. The whole thing is straight from the dark ages.

PEZ heads, the movie Pez Avenger graphic from Yeti Arts

August 13, 2006

Brick DVD Review

Brick DVD Review
Movie Power: *** 1/2
DVD Purchasing Power: ***

I like archetypes. Rian Johnson’s “Brick” has this in spades. A hero’s journey for truth through the underworld. Along the way, he is tempted by several beautiful fem fatales, guided only by his passion for his long-time (and recently deceased) ex-lover.

In high school.


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Brendan Fry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a high school snitch turned lonesome intellectual. His over-protective nature has put him on the outs with his girlfriend Emily (Emilie de Ravin), until one day he receives a frantic call from Emily, and several days later, she turns up dead. Luckily, by then Brendan has already begun an investigation that shatters the secrets of upper crust high school students.

Brendan’s only ally in this is the school scholar Brain, as well as the may-or-may-not-be-innocent Laura, who’s always there at the right time and right place. By contrast, the list of usual suspects includes an urban legend drug dealer called the Pin (Lukas Haas), his brawny muscle Tugger (Noah Fleiss), a pie-house stoner named Dode (Noah Segan) and one of his own ex’s, Kara, (Meagan Good).

“Brick” triumphs because relative directorial newcomer Rian Johnson endows a strangely effective sensibility into every scene. He borrows some from the plot of Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep”, some from the dialogue of Dashiell Hammett “Maltese Falcon”, but he doesn’t completely ape the mocking humor of the traditional private eyes. True, its there, but the real humor comes from the awkward imposition of savvy, brutal characters in the middle of home room and suburbia.

Continue reading "Brick DVD Review" »

August 12, 2006

Curb Your Kightlinger

portrait_0.jpgTired of the heavy guy-on-guy glamour of Entourage? Ready for a look at the Hollywood life YOU might actually lead? Then go ahead and check out THE MINOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF JACKIE WOODMAN, a new single-camera sitcom on IFC.

From the IFC website: The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman is a herky-jerky romp through Hollywood, courtesy of Jackie Woodman (Kightlinger) and her best friend, Tara Wentzel (Nicholle Tom, The Nanny, The Book of Ruth): two single women trying to carve a niche in Tinsel Town (and on a few bedposts along the way).

Jackie, a writer for a second rate indie film rag, and Tara, a low-level employee at a film production company, are determined to succeed in this fast paced LA scene. Armed only with willful ignorance, fleeting confidence and poor judgment, this lovable, and barely functional duo continually screw up, yet, somehow manage to persevere and stay best friends.

Continue reading "Curb Your Kightlinger" »

August 11, 2006

Holding the Covenant

covenant.bmpThis is somewhat old news already - "The Covenant" trailer has surfaced ever since the Comic-Con ended several weeks ago. But for everything the teaser has shown, be it considerable or incoherent, there's been very little discussion anywhere about the film thus far.

"The Covenant" is directed by Renny Harlin. That's Renny Harlin of "Deep Blue Sea" fame (if you can call that fame) and Renny Harlin of "Exorcist: The Beginning" infamy.

"The Covenant" earned a place in Comic-Con because its based upon a comic - in a round about way, that is. The truth of the matter is Top Cow launched a graphic novel tie-in during the pre-production stages of the movie to hook an audience, but for the most part, "The Covenant" seems to be a product of the silver screen.

For those who haven't yet viewed the trailer, five families find "power" (magic) during the Salem Witch Trials. One family gets greedy and then gets banished (sounds like Slytherin if you ask me). Skip ahead to modern times and four descendant teenagers have powers.

So what? Its just "Craft" for guys, as one IMDB user pointed out.

But here's thing: from the trailer, it seems these guys have extreme powers. Aside from the occassional skirt-blowing, the Covenant boys indulge in cliff diving, teleporting and even reconstructing their cars in mid-air crashes.

These guys border on omnipotence.

Which brings up one overlooked by crucial tenant of magical powers: its got a price.

Continue reading "Holding the Covenant" »

PULSE Movie Review

pulse.jpgIt’s true that computers can suck you in and consume your life. This one guy in college seemed normal enough. He had muscle tone, an easy way with the ladies, and a pleasant enough personality. Had a hell of a poster collection, you would have liked him. But then, he suddenly disappeared. The last time I saw him he was a pale gaunt shadow of his former self, surviving on a strict diet of Surge and Sun Chips, the only sign of his former self, a fiery look of determination in his eyes. What happened to cause such a change in an otherwise healthy contributing member of society? Everquest happened.

That game was the downfall of many a college student. Instead of having unprotected sex and stuffing each other into phone booths, young men everywhere were hunched over keyboards collecting gold and leveling up their Midget Ogre Wrestler (or whatever.)

Continue reading "PULSE Movie Review" »

The Grudge

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The website for The Grudge 2 is up. That's the sequel to the American remake of the original Ju-on: The Grudge. In fact Ju-on: The Grudge is actually the third film in the series (the first two being direct to video) so really what we're looking at here is the sequel to the remake to the third film in the original series.

Your art school friends will say that the Japanese version is better because it's got subtitles, but who needs that? In fact who needs to see this film at all when you can watch the extra super duper long trailer at the site. From what I gather there will be creepy children and odd cat noises.

So watching this movie is the equivalent of and hour and a half spent in a petting zoo.

Brick written and directed by Rian Johnson now on DVD

A truly wonderful indie film was just released onto DVD. BRICK, written and directed by Rian Johnson, starring Joseph Gordon Leavitt, is an updated take on classic film noir, with a special tip of the hat to The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon. Reportedly shot for only $500,000 this is one to bring home and savor.

July 13, 2006

Unflinching Triumph: The Philip Rockhammer Story

flinching.jpgUnflinching Triumph: The Philip Rockhammer Story is a documentary centering on the efforts of one Philip Rockhammer to ascend the ranks of the National Association of Staredown Professionals.

"Staredown is a sport that requires focus, concentration, and endurance. Through the course of history, from the caves of the Neanderthal Man to the playgrounds of suburban America, Staredown has been practiced by commoners and merchants, peasants and royalty alike. But only recently has this sport achieved the official recognition it deserves."

So sayeth Ernie Armstrong, Commissioner of the NASP... and he was glaring right at us through the camera when he said it, so we're not going to goof on it. In fact we sort of want to curl up into a ball. Anyway, J.R. McCord's Unflinching Triumph is available for viewing in its entirety on the web, and it is pretty interesting.

Unflinching Triumph: The Philip Rockhammer Story
Via J-Walk blog

July 7, 2006

The Culturepulp Q&A: Richard Linklater

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Screenhead favorites Culturepulp truck on down to an interview with Richard Linklater and discuss the ins and outs of his animated Philip K Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly, as well as Dick himself, one of the more interesting sci-fi authors to exist not just for his fabulous writing but his schizophrenia-induced paranoia.

MIKE RUSSELL: So this interview is actually for a comic strip.
RICHARD LINKLATER: Okay. Should I answer in a comic way?

The Culturepulp Q&A: Richard Linklater

March 28, 2006

Rhymes with duck

Check out this trailer for Steve Anderson's pretty great looking exploration of the big naughty F word and those who wield it well, such as the not large in America but large everywhere else comedian/storyteller Billy Connolly, well-known for putting the word to great use in his act over the years. Also features toons by the mighty Bill Plympton.

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Fuck trailer [four letter films]

March 22, 2006

Da Vinci Code Trailer WOW! Bam!! Boom!! Chunk!

The recent trailer for Da Vinci Code movie gets a little nip and tuck for some extra Zazz in its britches.

Da Vinci Code Trailer WOW! Bam!! Boom!! Chunk! OMG Da Vinci Code Trailer WOW!!

March 17, 2006

I've Been Waiting for You

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Trailer for the Pixies documentary film loudQUIETloud, which followed the band around on their 2004 tour, and sees the band members arrive as normal people at the start of the tour, and rapidly break down into nearly every roommate we've ever had by the middle of it. loudQUIETloud had its debut recently at the SXSW festival.

loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies

March 16, 2006

Drawing Restraint 9

Here's the new-ish trailer for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9, evidently shot on board the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru. The film features what looks like some amazing output by Bjrk, which can be explored a bit here.


March 7, 2006

New X-Men3 trailer

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Actually looks good. We say it with italics not because we didn't like the other two, but because rumors of new-to-the-series director Brett (Rush Hour) Ratner driving this thing like Kelsey Grammer dives a Viper were rampant. .. of course, now that we think about it, they were largely rampant over at Ain't It Cool News, which we suspect isn't so much a movie news site as a goof on people who like movie news sites.

X-Men: The Last Stand [apple]

February 6, 2006

The all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world

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They're remaking Fight Club, and by "they" we mean "Bollywood" and by "remaking" we mean "as a musical." This is fantastic. We would pay 200, possibly 300 cents to see this... that princely sum likely being roughly %100 more than Rising Star paid anyone for the rights to this title (we're guessing). We almost pity Hollywood having to compete with this sort of thing-- what would you part with a buck to watch, the most recent shitty CG wankfest with overpaid whoever in it, or a fairly recent western cultural semi-homo touchstone re-interpreted into a swarthy musical? No wonder Hollywood tries so hard to region code things.

Anyway, watch two trailers and four music video promos for this thing at Twitch film.

Bollywood's Riding the Remake Train Again ... This Time It's Fight Club [twitchfilm]
The (Rising Star) Fight Club site

CulturePulp goes to Slamdance

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Mike Russell's "journalism comic strip" CulturePulp goes to the Slamdance film festival, Slamdance being the other film festival in Park City Utah, one in which bitty shoestring movies most people will never see get their Warhol 15 ... sort of like the Sex Pistols to Sundance's Journey. It's where Napoleon Dynamite became Napoleon Dynamite, and where The Call of Cthulhu has ended up. We wondered about that.

CulturePulp 046: Postcards from Park City

February 1, 2006

Cool beans

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There will be a Dark Crystal 2. Samurai Jack's Genndy Tartakovsky will likely drive the bus. That is all.
Genndy Tartakovsky To Helm Sequel To The Dark Crystal! [twitch film]

January 31, 2006

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

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This looks nuts: a Michel Gondry directed film with is a shot on location live show with Dave headlining a bunch of musicians and locals in block party in Brooklyn last year. Watch the trailer, check out the thumbnails.

The official site, with not much on it yet

January 18, 2006

Back to the Future 2 trading cards

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Do they still make these for movies? Can you get, say, Brokeback Mountain trading cards? "Brokeback Mountain trading cards... slip up and get caught with these and you're dead."

Back to the Future 2 trading cards [fusion-industries9]

January 16, 2006

Labyrinth Trailer

The trailer for the 80s David Bowie/Muppet headscratcher Labyrinth. A very rock star children's movie: David Bowie with Bon Jovi hair playing The Goblin King, David's playful nickname for Mick Jagger. Har.

January 11, 2006

Transformers test footage

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Suposedly leaked ILM test footage from a teaser for the new Transformers movie. Looks off to us.

Transformers footage [badongo]

January 9, 2006

Should I stay or should Torgo

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Metafilter has an thread up which follows up on what happened to the cast of Manos: The Hands of Fate, the burrito-priced grade Z flick made popular by Mystery Science Theater 3000. First a pair of interviews from Richard Brandt, the first with two guys who worked on the film, and the second with Jackey Jones, who was the seven year-old girl who winds up as one of the Devil's concubines. Life's rough all over, kid. Also, Who knew there was a Torgo fan page?
Finally the Metafilter thread itself, which his full of links to other horrible movies.

January 6, 2006

Serenity crash effects rundown

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Pretty great run down of a short but very impressive effects shot in Serenity with Bill Taylor of Illusion Arts, the effects team that handled the sequence.

By the way, if you haven't seen it, there's a crash scene. Also, Murphy dies, but heroically. Smitty goes down inflames. Bill loses an eye, but it's not important to the plot.

Illusion Arts' Bill Taylor on 'Serenity' [vfxblog]

You know we link to these things anyway, right. You could just send the link.

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Okay, here's an ad for that Grandma's Boy movie. Kinda looks like the on-life support joke from the Adam Sandler golf movie from 10 years ago that it is, but who cares, because waaaaay funnier than the ad or the movie it promotes is the severely lubed up Willy Loman firehose in the email from which it comes, which we will paste here for your pleasure. No edits have been made:

"Hey, geeky Hollywood screenwriter John Rogers here. Got something that may interest you. A cut and paste from my blog should cover it: All right. It's my job to know these things. Much like Hollywood saw the South Park video Christmas Card a year before everybody else, this very, very funny and very disturbing viral video dropped onto my laptop about a month ago as it first made the rounds a video in which two young rappers extol the virtues of GILF. Yeah, that's right. They're rollin' Vintage Honey Style. What's weird is, it's now on the web running parallel to the publicity for this weekend's Fox release Grandma's Boy."

You don't say! That is weird!
"So either the lads who made it hijacked the parallel name, and are therefore not just funny film-makers but more clever than I am by half, or Fox grabbed the video and then instead of making it an Easter Egg at the movie's site, buried it at a url which no one actually has any reason to type. Which is both insanely hip and smart and not particularly bright all at the same time. I'm going to contact the people who made it and find out which, and will report back. In the meantime, it makes an excellent one-two punch with Chronic of Narnia to help prove that a couple funny guys who know how to write and shoot will out-funny the big studios every time. "

Seriously, you have to be impressed. This is the email equivalent of that carefully ironed Greatful Dead tee shirt the 40 year old guy with the mustache and the pecs wore at your high school when he asked if you could help him "score some drugs, dudes."

So, here's the cutting edge scrappy little fighter of an underground clip all of that vowel movement was squeezed out for, a clip which just like South Park and the Chronic of Narnia rap before it requires a video screen to be viewed: Grandmazboy

January 4, 2006

Pan's Labyrinth trailer

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Looking forward to Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, for which this fresh new trailer inspires all kinds of nipple hardness. Del Toro is the director of Hellboy, Cronos, whichever Blade sequel that was where the monsters have giant vagina faces, and seems to have a flair for making cool-looking genre movies that seem somehow better than they in fact are. Pan's Labyrinth feels like it'll be fully live up to the potential of the low budget but well-told Cronos. The embedded Flash is a pain, but it will load after a sufficient amount of swearing.

Pan's Labyrinth Trailer [dvdrama]

December 21, 2005

American Dreamz

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The best we can say for this is that it's somehow got Jesus playing Satan.

The American Dreamz trailer [apple]


December 16, 2005

Queen Of Blood Trailer

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"Made in 1966, the story of Queen Of Blood takes place in 1990, a time when space has been conquered, quilted clothing is at the cutting edge of fashion, and macho astronauts call each other 'baby' (or at least, they do if theyre played by Dennis Hopper)."

One of the "Corman Cut-Ups", so called because producer Roger would pirate special effects bits from unseen foreign movies and incorporate bits of his own more spicy footage to make a film for about the price of one of Harry Potter's jockstraps.

Read about it here, watch the trailer here.
Via bedazzled

December 14, 2005

The Da Vinci Code film trailer

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In which an awful but very popular book is made into what looks like an awful movie by people who get to keep making movies despite the fact that their last movie, A Beautiful Mind, was awful but popular. If we were filmmakers or had any ambition in that direction we'd have killed ourselves with a dull-pronged spork by now. The best we can say for this is that it seems to irritate The Pope.

The Da Vinci Code film trailer [apple]

December 13, 2005

Hostel

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Watch a couple minutes of Eli Roth's much anticipated horror flick Hostel in this new trailer.

Trailer [bloody-disgusting]
Hostel site

We can think of at least two things wrong with that title

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Watch "cult classic" Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy online. WE DARE YOU.
"As you might guess, the film involves women who wrestle, an Aztec Mummy, and a 1957 Lincoln."

Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy [Count Gore]

Read a review here if for some reason you don't like to feel good and are not into actually watching Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy right now. An excerpt: "-
The biggest problem with Las Luchadoras Contra la Momia is the overall lack of mummy."
Interesting. We watch movies differently.

via PCL LD

December 9, 2005

The Marie Antoinette trailer

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Interesting trailer for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette biopic. Evidently the film will feature Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Jason Schwartzman as cat-munching alien Alf, and what we think is pretty great casting: Marianne Faithfull as Marie Antoinette's mother Empress Maria Theresa.

Marie Antoinette Trailer [moviefone]

December 6, 2005

X-Men3

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The first official trailer for the third X-Men movie. Looks a lot better than the various early script rumblings have led us to believe. Not sure if the Kelsey Grammar character is the one they should have driving all fast like that.

X-Men3 trailer [Apple]

November 30, 2005

Fritz Lang's M

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Fritz Lang's M is available at the Internet Archive, the 1931 tale of a child-murderer (loosely based on Peter Kurten, himself more interesting than any movie we can think of for the sheer number of crimes he got away with before turning himself in.) This is Peter Lorre's first major role, Fritz Lang's first talkie, and still one of the richest films of its kind, plotwise. If you've never seen it, you should probably rent it, if you have seen it, you'll enjoy a refresher from the Internet Archive.

Fritz Lang's M [Internet Archive]
via We Make Money not Art

November 23, 2005

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning

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Star Trek fan film/parody Star Wreck has been floating around p2p sites for a while in its various short film infant stages, it has now become a feature length and fairly well polished CGI-enhanced affair called In the Pirkinning. Star Wreck may be a fan film, but it could well be the Citizen Kane of fan films... well, if Orson Wells was funny, and from Finland. Perhaps Star Wreck is the Mallrats of fan films. Either way it is a free download, and pretty impressive. Check out the trailer for convincing.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning

November 21, 2005

Ya' ever ride a zombie horse, boy?

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We've gone off of linking to film trailers, they rarely entertain all that much, but we're willing to make an exception for this very special movie: The Special Dead, which synopsifies* itself thusly:

"When a zombie plague infects Camp Special Dude, a dude ranch for the mentally handicapped, a ragtag band of campers and counselors struggles to survive the night."

The campfire song really sells us on this one, for we would also be willing to take it from behind from sweet Maggie Seaver.

The Special Dead trailer
The movie blog
Thanks to Carl

*We've decided we're just going to make shit up now- words, facts, whatever.

November 15, 2005

Marriage is still a problem, but you can have cheezy horror flicks

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Watch trailers and other paraphernalia for Hellbent, the gay slasher movie with the villian who looks like the devil guy from those Viagra ads.

Hellbent
Thanks to gerf

November 9, 2005

Revenge of the Sith: The Abridged Script

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So, we're watching Revenge Of The Sith, and we're a little confused by the scene in which one character seems to turn into Don Imus for no reason sufficiently explained by the movie, conventional biology or physics, and so we hop online for the orignal shooting script and find this far better acount of events:


NATALIE PORTMAN
(yawning)
Hayden, I'm pregnant.

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
(furrowing his brow)
How can you be sure?

NATALIE PORTMAN
Because in a minute or two I'll
actually be showing. Really.

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
You know, I love you with all the
love one can love a lover with.

NATALIE PORTMAN
Wow, that almost tops your 'wish'
line from the last movie. Tell me
again on the balcony while I brush
my hair and look vaguely hideous.


Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith: The Abridged Script By Rod Hilton [The Editing Room]

See also: Episode III Lost Hope

November 8, 2005

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang opening sequence

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Don't know how the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is, but the opening title credits are an animated tribute to the amazing Saul Bass.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang opening sequence [sixteentwenty]
Check out captures from famous Saul Bass movie openings here.
Via Grow A Brain

October 31, 2005

The 100 greatest horror movie performances

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continuing their Halloween tradition of listing their favorites from the the horror film world, retroCRUSH this year teams up with Trash Film Orgy to give a nod to the greatest horror movie performances. A good actor having fun with the roll is the difference between a turd and a jem in all movies, but most of all in horror films since everything else on the screen from the zipper on the back of the monster to the crayon red blood to the written while high dialogue basically begs you to reject it. They get it pretty right in our opinion, and they link to trailers when available

The 100 greatest horror movie performances [ retroCRUSH ]

while, check out their wrap up of CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL.
Notably not on the The 100 greatest list, but it looks pretty funny.

October 26, 2005

Finding a Suicide Bomber's Motivation

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Ever wonder what thoughts circulate in a suicide bomber's head a few hours before they do the deed? Here's your chance to hear first hand from Khaled and Said, two young men from the Gaza strip, 48 hours away from the event - a clip from the film Paradise Now, a fictional film in which two childhood mates are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. We wish we could tell you that something profound is said here, but it's frankly just the same old myopic drivel common to those who embraces hopelessness. Reminds us of Halle Berry trying to promote that Catwoman movie.

Finding a Suicide Bomber's Motivation (Paradise Now) [ifilm]

Part of this series of promo clips

October 25, 2005

Zzyzx

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Upcoming film Zzyzx, a ghost story of sorts taking place out in the Nevada desert, features a promotional site which teases with an involved plot and flash segments.

Zzyzx

Kong Stars in Tissue Ad

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The peter Jackson production website for his version of King Kong brings us this commercial for "Feh Tissues" featuring the old monkey with new allergies.

Kong Stars in Tissue Ad [kongisking]

October 24, 2005

The Vampire Bat

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Never take a gift vampire bat from a Mongoloid. Is that a saying? That should be a saying. "Hey, okay man - don't take any wooden nickels." "Right on man, never take a gift vampire bat from a Mongoloid."

Anyway, "never take a gift Vampire Bat from a Mongoloid", and "Fay Ray was hot and in another movie besides King Kong" are the essential messages in this classic 1933 horror film, which you can watch at the Internet Archive.

The Vampire Bat [internet archive]

October 21, 2005

5-25-77

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Here's the completed trailer for Patrick Read Johnson's upcoming shoestring budgeted homebrew indie flick 5-25-77, in which the universe throws a poor kid who just wants to see the 1977 premiere of Star Wars every possible curve ball. Features none other than Reverend Jim Ignatowski himself, which is usually enough to get us to go to a movie.

5-25-77 trailer
5-25-77 site
With thanks to duul


October 11, 2005

Firefly < Serenity

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A fan of Joss Whedon's Firefly tries his sub-legal best to get potential viewers of the so far under-performing at the box office Serenity movie up to speed with a 30 minute video Cliff's Notes of the series, and a link to the first nine minutes of the movie, in order to help entice lagards to the sticky floors and stadium seating. Godspeed, you likely soon-to-be-cease-and-desist'd-by-a-less-than-bright-movie-studio Browncoat.

Firefly < Serenity [centripetalnotion.com]

Charade

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The big relevant-to-us news yesterday (we had a half-day off, which is sort of like a full day off, except you can't actually relax during it) is that the excellent 1963 movie Charade is bumping around in its entirety on the Internet Archive. We're really fond of this movie; Charade features a cool story idea that has been borrowed from in one way or another by dozens of "romantic thrillers", clever, snappy, and occasional hilarious dialogue, Audrey Hepburn was never more appealing, and it's got one o' them ever-cool Maurice Binder opening title sequences (Binder being the architect of the James Bond opening titles). All of this is complimented with a Henri Mancni score that drives it all like a team of horses. A copyright goof has this film out in the netherworld of rights freedom endured by a classic of nearly equal footing Night Of the Living Dead, which is why you can find these movies on the Internet Archive for the low low price of nothing, and on DVD in many dollar stores for, Haliburtonly, about $1.25.

Charade [Internet Archive]

October 7, 2005

Waiting for Guzman

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So, here is what is probably a genius bit of viral marketing by way of "gossip" - check out the blog of Waiting director Rob McKittrick (the movie opens today), in which he offers up some video of character actor Luis Guzman not taking direction too well :

"Okay, here's a little preface: We were fortunate enough to have a guy, Jason Vowell, constantly filming behind-the-scenes footage, so it became commonplace. As a result, the actors let their guard down and often didn't notice the camera... And further as a result, I have this clip of Luis Guzman and I getting into a really bad argument, with him becoming a real asshole."

For the record, we don't know either of these men personally, but Luis looks like he could kick our asses pretty hard, so we're going to adivse Rob McKittrick that he should apologize to Mr. Guzman for "telling him how to act."

Rob McKittrick - Today is the Big Day

October 6, 2005

Hinokio Trailer

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"In order to avoid attending school physically, Iwamoto Satoru began operating a robot remotely from home to go to school in his place. Hinokio could be controlled from his bedroom. The story is about how the robot tries to communicate with the people around him."

Ganked from the always forward-looking We Make Money not Art, which wonders how long such films will reside in the "fiction" isle. Watch the trailer at the rather slick Flash site.

October 5, 2005

The War of the Worlds in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies

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The non-Dakota Fanning 1953 version of The War of the Worlds gets the bunnies treatment from Angry Alien.The story still doesn't make much sense, but now that fact only upsets us for about as long as it takes our president to pick a new supreme court justice.

The War of the Worlds in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies [Angry Alien]

More bunnies:
· Highlander
· The Big Chill
· Pulp Fiction
· It's a Wonderful Life
· Bad hare days

The Passion of the Clerks video teaser bits

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The Clerks2 production has a vlog of sorts going, with short produced video teasers going up frequently. Smart move on View Askew's part, as we had basically no interest in this until we saw these short bits. A little Rosario Dawson goes a long way towards peaking our interest.

Clerks 2: The Passion of the Clerks - News and Updates

October 4, 2005

Snakes On A Plane gets the advertising it doesn't really deserve

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Jenny's Midnight Screamatorium presents Noodles With Teeth, a 30s style megaphone croon for the upcoming Sam Jackson modern movie classic Snakes On A Plane. This, friends and neighbors, is why we have the internet.

Jenny's Midnight Screamatorium - Noodles With Teeth [putfile]

Jenny's Midnight Screamatorium [MySpace]

September 29, 2005

Highlander, re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds

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80s film Highlander, a movie notable for being printed not on celluloid film but on a 13 year old boy's pituitary gland, is the latest to get the "re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds" treatment from Angry Alien.

You know... when you see it all at once like this without the nuances... we dare say Highlander almost, almost, seems like kind of a silly film.

Highlander, re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds [Angry Alien]

The Shining, Redux

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The Shining, made into something truly horrifying: a Nora Ephron-esque chick flick.
"A post-production house organized a competition where assistant editors re-cut trailers for famous movies to try and make them seem like different movies . . . this is the one that won."

The Shining, Redux
Via Waxy, via Tattered Coat
(A mirror if the first link fails you)

September 26, 2005

The CulturePulp Q&A: Joss Whedon

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Cartoonist/ cultural probot M.E. Russell gets a good long chinwag with Joss Whedon as the two hash over all things Firefly for the Serenity opening on Friday. If you're a fan of Firefly and/or Joss Whedon this is a great read.

The CulturePulp Q&A: Joss Whedon

See also:
· Serenity wow
· Session 416

September 23, 2005

How It Should Have Ended

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Daniel Baxter's animated shorts suggest some better endings to popular movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix Revolutions.

How It Should Have Ended

September 19, 2005

The Duelist

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Korean pop star Park Ji-Young's theme song for Lee Myung-Se's first film in 6 years, The Duelist, serves as a teaser for the film, which opens at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

Park Ji-Young - Duelist theme [Twitch]

September 12, 2005

Corpse Bride "sneak peek" clip

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A watch a sneak peek clip of Tim Burton's upcomming stop motion animation movie The Corpse Bride. The bukkake scene will surprise you. Well, not now. Well, there isn't one.

Corpse Bride clip [Moviefone]
Via Drawn

See also:
Ask the Dead

September 6, 2005

The Fake Superman Teaser

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The title says it all: a fan-crafted teaser for the upcoming Superman Returns. Includes footage you might not have seen, and it flicks past fast enough to nearly pass for legitimate.

The Fake Superman Teaser [supermanimagery.com]

Also, contest at Plasticbag.org to redesign the Superman Logo.

September 1, 2005

Ask the Dead

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A Flash animated Ouja board promo for Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride. Ask the nice dead lady a few questions. If the nine year-old in you likes this sort of thing, this is a nicely done Ouja board with a suitably Halloween sort of tone.

Ask the Dead

Also: The trailer for The Corpse Bride [apple]

The Film You Will Never See

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Cult filmmaker/comics artist/mystical mumbo jumbo enthusiast Alejandro Jodorowsky on his unfortently unmade Dune film. How cool would his film have been compared to the David Lynch one? Well, rather than involving the interesting choices of people like Sting and Toto, Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune would have involved Orson Welles, Salvador Dal, Pink Floyd, H.R. Giger, and French comics one man zeitgeist Mobius, among others. The film didn't happen of course, however it came close enough that the aborted set design work turned up in the original Alien and as rumors have it, Star Wars. Read all about it, and see a few concept sketches at the link.

The Film You Will Never See [Aurthermag]

Alejandro Jodorowsky [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky

Seen @ WFMU's Beware Of The blog

August 30, 2005

Session 416

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Session 416 is a fansite dedicated to keeping track of all of the known mirrors for the "River Tam Sessions" viral for the upcoming Serenity movie. Serenity feels like the last movie which would benefit from a word of mouth thing like this, seeing as the only people who get what is going on in these shorts are already completely rabid for the movie, but we bow to the superior marketing ability of teh Whedon.

Session416

Previous mention and description of the Session 416 viral here.

See also:
· The international Serenity trailer
·Serenity wow

August 19, 2005

Revolver trailer

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The spankin' new trailer for Guy Ritchie's Revolver is out. We still haven't seen Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, so we think it's pretty considerate of Guy to keep giving us fresh opportunities like this. Ha-ha! That's not fair, we're sure this is a completely different movie with the same cast and premise.

Revolver

August 18, 2005

Session 416

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Interesting thing floating around the web which appears to be a viral for the upcoming Firefly movie Serenity. Looks like it's meant to be a leaked video of River Tam's abilities being tested while she was still held captive by the men with blue hands. If that's gibberish to you, go back to your fancy "having sex" and "leaving the house" and "bathing" and so forth and leave us to our nerdery.

Session 416 [ifilm]
See here

10mph

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A trailer for an upcoming film about the great American story, really: a couple of wild guys on some slim machines with two wheels each want to freely see the heart of the country and feel the wind, well slight breeze, whipping at their hair.

The 10mph trailer



August 15, 2005

Occupation: Dreamland - Night Vision

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iFilm features a three minute clip from Garrett Scott & Ian Olds' documentary film Occupation: Dreamland, "an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraqi city of Falluja during the winter of 2004."

NSFW due to the sort of language people use when they're shoe store clerks one minute and the next they're getting shot at with sand stuck in their urethras.

Occupation: Dreamland - Night Vision [ifilm]

August 3, 2005

Horror for Homos

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Camp Blood.org, "horror for Homos": the horror movie culture from the Queer eye. Stylish with snappy prose, complete with their own media mash-ups such as Friday the 13th Part III vs. The Beverly Hillbillies. We dig the entry flash that references the 1978 Faye Dunaway thiller / enema "Eyes of Laura Mars". You simply don't run into that on every website.

Camp Blood.org

July 28, 2005

Walk The Line Trailer

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The trailer for the Man In Black biopic staring Jojoba Phoenix is up at Yahoo. Staring Reese Witherspoon and Jabba Phoenix. Staring Jibba Jabba Phoenix... Jiblober Phoenix - fuck it- staring, John Smith, okay? Quit being so fucking clever with your names, Hollywood, no one is impressed. Now we're so irritated with his foofy name we've lost our train of thought.

Right, the trailer: advance word on John Smith's performance is abuzz with Oscar talk. Hope the academy has a few spare little gold naked men statues kicking around to get John Smith Phoenix's name engraved properly.

Walk The Line Trailer [Yahoo]

July 26, 2005

2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie poster

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Voltron, Transformers, and now some 2007 movie news for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a franchise which has seen the screen before, but not with CGI, which was of course the major thing wrong with the last three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies-- the effects. The effects, and not, say, the writing, acting, directing, dialogue, basic concept, lack of comprehension of high school-level physics, and Vanilla Ice. The new technology is going to free this version up be the modern Iliad that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was intended to be, by God.

We look forward to when the Hollywood nostalgia machine catches up to 90s cartoon Mummies Alive. That thing will kick ass.

2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie poster [IMDB]

V For Vendetta trailer

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The trailer for the upcoming major movie version of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel from the 80s, in which a Guy Fawkes mask wearing-anarchist fights the crushing hand of whatever, blah blah blah- the draw here is how Natalie Portman manages to look somehow even cuter with a shaven head.

V For Vendetta

July 25, 2005

The first look at the Transformers movie

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Okay, the first 70% of this video clip is shot on camcorder and is all hype up stuff clipped from conventions in which pasty 30-somethings recount how Optimus Prime was their first homosexual urge or something, then the last 30% is the actual money shot: second generation camcorder footage of a movie screen showing what looks like modern Georgia Lucas style digital animatics depicting various action scenes that may or may not get fleshed out in the actual movie. Steven Spielberg then shows up long enough to suggest that this is not Just Another Action Movie, that Transformers is nothing less than a voice for our generation. Of course, the cartoon they're getting the mythology from was only ever an extended commercial for toys, so all that falls a wee bit flat.

Early 'Transformers' Footage
[all dumb]

July 22, 2005

The international Serenity trailer

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The last trailer for the big screen version of Firefly was pretty, but a bit sparse. This trailer features more of the style of dialogue and humor that made the show work so well. Hard to believe Serenity won't please the fans after seeing this.

Serenity International Trailer [Whedonesque]

See also: Serenity Wow


July 20, 2005

Greenpeace - Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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Watching this short spot for environmental activist group Greenpeace, we not only laughed our asses off, but we had a Spinal Tap "Shit Sandwich" moment, in which we exclaimed, aloud, to an otherwise empty room:

"Can they do this? They can't do this. Can they do this?"

They did that. Possibly not safe for work, but you'd really have to work either for Fox or Sesame street.

Greenpeace - Mr. & Mrs. Smith [boards]

Forest Grove

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Maya Churi's Forest Grove is one of the more interesting things we've seen: a Flash animation composed of photographs of models, presented like a slide show-- except when it breaks those rules to be something else for the sake of storytelling. Accompanied by a serene audio track of narration and a sparse sound bed, the end result feels like watching old home movies while in a spaceship that is in hyperspace or something equally physics-defying.

· Forest Grove
· Matthew Ross' cul-de-sac, a filmmaker Magazine article which describes Forest Grove.
With thanks to Matthew

Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari

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The first modern Horror Film, 1919's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is available on The Internet Archive. As with any 80 year old, it takes a moment to adjust to the style of story telling, but once it settles down a bit you can't help but enjoy the dark tale of a twisted showman and his sleepwalking, future telling attraction. The only downside is that this 80 year old picked up a speed habit in 1952, as this is the version of Dr. Caligari which was sped up for American audiences, and it zips past a little strangely if you're familiar with the original.

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [Internet Archive]
Also: Diary Of A Somnambulist

Link and image ganked from We make money not art

July 19, 2005

Asian Pride Porn

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Greg Pak's infomercial spoof in which playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, FOB) promotes a porn more friendly to the image of Asian peoples. Tentacles are not addressed. Possibly stars that one girl from that other movie, but who can tell since they all look the same, are we right fellas? Not work unsafe, but it features porny noises.

Asian Pride Porn [atom films]

The other Fantastic Four

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"-When your villain compares unfavorably to Punky Brewster's dad, you know it's not a good movie."

Website the Agony booth offers up all the information on the never released 1993 Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie you could ever hope for. The back story is a fascinating conspiracy theory-laden industry tale, and no less than six separate movie reviewers suffer through possibly the worst thing ever to compile one excruciatingly detailed review on a film you'll probably only see if having your gentials tazered isn't getting the FBI the answers they want.

Fantastic Four
[Agony Booth]

July 18, 2005

Fired Up

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Newsbreakers is a group of people who spoof news media on location, guerilla - style. Newsbreakers founder Buck "Lucky" Owens is actually employed by the news media, so his actions could be taken as a sign that the broadcast news media has started to eat itself, the first flames licking the walls of the media Rome... or something. In truth it appears to be smug people in masks hassling local news dimwits in a manner slightly less sophisticated than the ones pioneered by the more creative Howard Stern fan, but they do manage get it all on tape, which is fun to watch... unless you're paying one, as Buck's boss was, right up until the first day after the very first Newsbreakers prank. "Fired Up" is the short video of Buck's return to his former workplace building, mostly to retrieve a can of soup. Wedding soup.

· Fired Up
· Mood (the first Newsbreakers stunt, which caused the firing)

Health Hazard

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Health Hazard is Ottawa based indie filmmaker Pascal Trottier's horror comedy short in which a mutating blob of evil goo spurts up through the drain of a less than considerate chain-smoker, and gives him a new, more revealing look.

Health Hazard [ZED TV]

Dwarf Stand Tall

shortstuff3v3.JPG Dwarf Stand Tall is an odd and darkly hopeful promotional clip for multimedia collective Hobo Logistics.

"Experience the science of the Hobotix System by following the chronicles of an unpopular dwarf in the hours before he undergoes the controversial limb-lengthening operation:"

More of a short film than a promo video, this clip sort of gives up its ideas a layer at a time, like an peeled onion. Interesting stuff.

Dwarf Stand Tall
via Antille

Channel 187 The Homicide Network

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Channel 187 proclaims itself "the largest on demand library of indie horror." As most guys who keep their shorts on in the shower at the gym will tell you, it's not the size, but what you do with it. Fortunately Channel 187 seems to be shaking their money maker with a plethora of indie shorts and clips of the macabre variety, such as Julien Vanhoenacker's CGI toon Anthem.

· Channel 187 The Homicide Network
· Anthem

July 15, 2005

Snow-Bo

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Snow-Bo, Jenn Kluska and Vera Brosgol's classically styled animated film from their days at Sheridan College. The way simple drawings smoothly envoke emotion reminds us of both Chuck Jones and Charles Shultz in their respective heydays, after seeing it we understand illustrator website Drawn!'s gushing praise.

· Snow-Bo [verabee.com]
·The Vera Bee site

Andy Stuckey and Jon Murray's ode to Carson Daly

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We missed this the first time around, we're happy to get to it now: of the thousands of Carson Daly masturbation tribute songs that clutter the mediascape, Andy Stuckey and Jon Murray's classic is by far the first.

Andy Stuckey and Jon Murray's ode to Carson Daly [stuckeyandmurray.com]

The World Championship of Illegal Pencil Fighting

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The harsh underbelly of the life of some street fightin' men are revealed in this short. Cross The Patriarch and you'll have to write home to your mama with your feet, silkyboy.

The World Championship of Illegal Pencil Fighting [David Paul Meyer]

July 14, 2005

"We've secretly replaced the White House press corps with actual reporters."

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One Good Move has clips of The Daily Show segment where the press questions White House Press Secretary Scott Mcclellan for details on Karl Rove leaking Valerie Plame's name. One thing is certain: Scott absolutely appreciates being asked things that he won't answer. Nice to see the Daily Show audience cheer when they notice the press core doing what they're meant to for the first time in half a decade or so. This follows another Daily Show clip Lies and the Lying Liars in which Karl Rove is examined. Fine viewing all around

An Ongoing Investigation [onegoodmove]

Lies and the Lying Liars [onegoodmove]

Beefight

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Giant (by bee standards) hornets raid a hive of bees in this skillfully shot clip from some nature show. Comes complete with blood-curdling, Charlie Martin Sheen going down the river in Apocalypse Now "never get out of the boat!" narration from a guy who sounds just a little too into it all.

Beefight [nearlygood]

Thanks to John for the re-Sheening.

The hand that feeds

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That one thing you hope to see every time some overly confident individual hassles with a giant wild animal in that way which you kind of know deep down inside that they really shouldn't? It happens in this short video clip. The serious bit is very quick, but not for the squeamish.

Crocs [putfile]
via Monkeyfilter

July 13, 2005

White Bits

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A classic joke gets the short film treatment by Alex Jovy, with the mighty mighty (in the brick house sense of the term) Georgia Zaris providing the aforementioned white bits.

White Bits [atom films]

Director Alex Jovy has two other comedic shorts up at atom:
· Two's Company
· Holiday Romance.

Shutterbugs

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Azizs Ansari and Rob Huebel's (aka: Inconsiderate Cell
Phone Guy
) new short film made us laugh. Hard.

Shutterbugs (episode one) [Azizs is Bored]

Azizs is Bored

Also available at Channel 102

July 12, 2005

SXSWclick finalists announced

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Watch the five short films which are now finalists in this year's SXSWclick festival, and vote for your favorite. People's Choice and Jury winners will be announced on July 29th, and the winners will receive automatic entry into the 2006 SXSW Film Festival.

SXSWclick festival finalists

Original trailer for The Conversation

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The techno-thriller before they were called that, 1974's The Conversation remains a great film which still has its paranoia edge 30 years later. Here's the original trailer for it, it gives an example of soundman Walter Murch's "sound collage" approach to the audio track, a great filmmaking tactic Francis Ford Coppola likely got from Walter Murch's work on American Zoetrope pal George Lucas' THX 1138.

The Conversation [The Movie List]

Employee of the Month

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We link here to a clip of some television show we're not familiar with in which a magician makes hamburgers magically appear from menu pictures outside a McDonald's, takes a bite, and then magically returns them to the second dimension. As is usual for McDonald's, no cows are even slightly inconvenienced by the transaction.

McDonald's Employee of the Month [uniquepeek]
via MFISN

JBC Ballet

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A short video featuring Ballet where you least expect it: between a man and his heavy digger.

JBC Ballet[Lucky Kazoo]
With thanks to Jane

See also:
· Expressionless Girl
· Modern Toss on TV

July 11, 2005

Knicks

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Crooner Sy Adamowsky is ten years old, and his favorite singer is Barry Manilow.
Here's a video of Sy center court at the Garden. We link to this short video because we want you feel as good as we do, all day long.

Knicks [Sy Adamowsky.com]
Sy Adamowsky's website

via Chelsea Peretti

Stop Driving Us Crazy!

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A classic short featuring animated driving advice from the Methodist Church of the late 50s, in which Martian Rusty pays a visit to Earth and struggles to come to grips with the human propensity for driving like a flaming arsehole.

Stop Driving Us Crazy! [Internet Archive]
Seen @ Cartoon Brew

Way cool

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Check out five bitchn' videos of Skateboarder/ World Record holder/superior lifeform Danny Way jumping the Great Wall of China like it's a groupie and he's Van Halen in 1983.

· Danny Does China
· ABC news story on the event.

A similar feat was attempted in 2002 by biker Wang Jiaxiong, with less happy results.

The Triple Tofu Tower

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A Goodie Bag short in which finally, at long last Vegans can get down and embrace morbid obesity as previously only the carnivores of the world could.

The Triple Tofu Tower [Goodie Bag TV]

YYZ

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Neil Pert's drumergasam, from Rush's love song to coming back home to Toronto YYZ, given the GCI treatment by animator Bobby Brane.

YYZ [bobbysbrane]

July 8, 2005

House Of Cosbys to Bill Cosby Posse : "drop dead"

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Apologies for the Page 6-ish post title, always wanted to do that. After a little threatening tree pulp passed the transom of Channel 101 for Justin Roiland's House Of Cosbys Flash toon series, Channel 101stopped hosting them, and episode five was banished to the phantom zone of Not Being Hosted Anywhere We Could Find it Easily. Channel 101 has decided to host the original four episodes again, none of which feature an attorney fellating anything, but you can sort of feel it underneath.

House Of Cosbys [channel101]

Shopgirl trailer

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The trailer for the film version of Steve Martin's tiny novel Shopgirl, which Jimmy Fallon passed up on to go make Taxi. Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman managed to avoid being lured away by... whatever the fuck it was that they promised Jimmy Fallon, and the film looks like it'll be pretty good.

Shopgirl [ifilm]

Every Live 8 Performance

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Sweet little QuickTime vids of every Live 8 Performance: Green Day does Queen! Annie Lennox is still perversely shagable kinda! Paul McCartney is now officially Angela Lansbury! Brad Pitt does an Interstitial!
Every Live 8 Performance [Sonican]
Via Setrogum

July 7, 2005

Plan 9 From Outer Space

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The mighty Eye Of The Goof reminds us that you can go get Ed Wood's famously bad cult film Plan 9 From Outer Space at the Internet Archive. Big news to us, as we love that Tor Johnson... mostly because his name invokes a worse image than ours when you say it out loud. More importantly, we frankly can't imagine a more appropriate admission fee for seeing this cult classic than "free."

Plan 9 From Outer Space [Internet Archive]
The lovely Tor image ganked from this fine web establishment.

La Dentista!

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We're not going to disgrace director Michael Mohan's bit of complete fucking genius by attempting to attach some feeble description to it, just know that it's one of the most original and enjoyable short films we've seen here.

La Dentista! [atom films]
With thanks to mr. topps

Bobby Brown vs. The Hotel Mini Bar

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What it sounds like: former pop star now reality television trainwreck Bobby Brown matches wits with a hotel mini bar, and, as expected, is trounced soundly.

Bobby Brown vs. The Hotel Mini Bar [iFilm]

See also:
why does your face smell like Whitney Houstons finger?

Classic Horror Trailers

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Website Bedazzled offers up a trove of classic horror movie trailers from the "Monsterfest" thing that the AMC channel does on Halloween. At the site Bedazzled commenter Sam speaks for us as well with: "I will not watch AMC until they pull every commercial they run and never play Predator 2 ever again."

The trailers, being commercials, may be viewed uninterrupted. For now.

AMC TV Monsterfest Classic Horror Trailers [Bedazzled ]
via we make money not art

Hoodride Gone Wrong

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Here's a short video of some twit trying to get a ride on the hood of a car stopped at a red light, while his friend films it. There's a lot right with this clip, the best bit being the appearance of a real live grown up at the end who says what probably most needs to be said at the end of these things.

Hoodride Gone Wrong [Fazed]

July 6, 2005

Oblong Pictures

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Oblong Pictures, an "imaginary film company which specializes in making short stop-motion films using LEGO." Many fine short brick films abound here, not to be missed is Twisted, in which they'd like to know what that is on your uniform, and what would like to do with your life?

Oblong Pictures
Twisted

July 5, 2005

Cannibal Countdown

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"House over run with cannibals and don't know what to do? Call upon Burt and Diana who will solve your problem once and for all. With a little help from Magret Thatcher."

A five minute short which we feel safe in guessing was shot with cameras actually woven right from pot.

Cannibal Countdown [iFilm]

Rubber Johnny

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A nice chunk of Chris Cunningham's excellently upsetting Rubber Johnny for ya. Get it while ya can.

Rubber Johnny [putfile]



From Russia with dove

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We're not sure of the title for this short clip, so we're going to go with "Why At The Age Of 29 Natasha Still Weeps Openly When People Ask Her If She'd Like To Go See A Parade."

Golub [Fishki.net]

Snake God People

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The Idiot Box kindly allow us a short glimpse into the lives of some very special people with their short Snake God People. If you're out there reading this, and you happen to be one of Katie Holmes' parents, we think knowing that it could just as easily have gone this way should prove some amount of... well, whatever.

Snake God People [The Idiot Box]

June 30, 2005

Duel

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Anzovin Studio's amazingly smooth swashbuckling CG short which oozes character in pretty much every scene. One of the best, if not the best, action animations we've seen.

Duel [AM Films] With thanks to Ken

Yacht Rock

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Allow Hollywood Steve Huey to take you on a magical journey back to the period of Yacht Rock.. the smoothest period of rock, so that you may learn the story of the creation of The Doobie Brothers' What A Fool Believes.

Seriously, if Hall & Oats in this thing doesn't make you laugh, you may as well just go kill yourself, as you've no more ability to feel than a common Baldwin.

Yacht Rock [channel 101] With thanks to RJ

Indian Superman

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A few minutes of the Indian Superman movie, which makes Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park look like Revenge Of The Sith. We didn't watch very closely, but evidently Superman must save an airliner taken out by an embarrassed man's incredible in-flight diarrhea. That's right, diarrhea. You've been served, Singer.

· Indian Superman
· What's going on with that other Superman movie.

June 29, 2005

Truckfire

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Prolific filmmakers the Neistat brothers bid a fond farewell to the rock video Ford F-250 that tried to melt their faces off.

Truckfire

Previous Neistat brothers:
· Bike Thief
· Jesusfish

Put some butter on that

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Dunno what this short fight sequence is from*, but it's the most amused we've been since... this is the most amused we've ever been.

Fight [Vassago]

*Lai wong, or "The Story of Ricky."
( Thanks to Dave for the info )

June 28, 2005

Oh My God

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John Bryant's bloody short film which dreams up the worst day ever, is now up at atom films. This Film Threat review sums it all up nicely:

"In the end, its all about the well-being of innocent retarded Texans. Somebody has to look out for those guys and filmmaker John Bryant is on point."

Oh My God [atom films]

Dead Zombie

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Dead Zombie : a simple Flash site which features video clips and still images from various seminal zombie flicks. A fun ramp-up if you're on your way to go see Land Of The Dead.

Dead Zombie

The Wave

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The Wave is a 1991 Afterschool Special designed to "explain to kids how the Nazi party came to power in Germany". But one of the many streaming videos we're currently enjoying over at the mighty Xenu TV, a Scientology debunk fest.

The Wave [xenutv]

The King Kong Trailer

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Looks really beautiful in terms of color and film, what you think of the rest seems to hinge on what you're likely to think of Jack Black in a serious role, and a large cartoon monkey.

The King Kong Trailer [kingkongmovie.com]

Also, be sure to check out the on-going production dairy shorts.

June 24, 2005

The making of Le Building

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A bouncy video run through the making of the fantastic animated short Le Building.

·The making of Le Building [staphylas.com]
·Le Building

"Don't make Patches order at the drive-thru, he's a little horse."

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We thought we'd linked to this video of Patches the wonder horse the first time he'd made the rounds, but now that we think about it that predates our site by almost a year. We've had a few tips to him recently, so we guess he's still new to some of you. Thanks to Spencer for the reminder.

Patches The Horse [G Prime]

Inframan trailer

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Shaolin Chamber has the original trailer for the genesis of The Power Rangers, Voltron, G-Force, and any other odd to western adults but instantly loved by children Asian kids show where the good guys wear rubber and motorcycle helmets and the bad guys are goofy monsters: Inframan!

Inframan [Shaolin Chamber]
Via We Make Money Not Art

Cavalcade of Personalities

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The depression is for losers! Comedian Nick Kroll introduces us to a ghastly Gatsby-eqsue Cavalcade of Personalities in this short film, a clip which makes us want to punch out fictional people who would be dead by now anyway. No mean feat, that.

Cavalcade of Personalities [nickkroll.com]

Also with Nick:
I Love The 30s


June 23, 2005

Le Building

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An absolutely amazing animated short which illustrates the butterfly effect chain of consequences, but with tenant rage instead of a wing flap setting the chaos in action. Combines the abilities of Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonede, Olivier Staphylas, and Remi Zaarour.

Le Building
Seen @ Drawn

Watto Pr0n

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Fans of the prequel Star Wars movies might have noticed that Junk Dealer/Yasser Arafat DNA mooch Watto fell on hard times after betting against Anakin in the Pod Race. Website No Sheep! has a short video suggestion as to what happened after that, nicely illustrated with what is sure to be Burger King's next lawsuit.

Watto Pr0n [No Sheep!] with thanks to Zachary

June 21, 2005

The Flying Wallabies

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The Flying Wallabies
"Lemme ask you this : why jump roping?"
"Why rope-jumping? I call it 'rope-jumping' because I jump the rope, the rope doesn't jump me."

The Flying Wallabies [Please Rock] with thanks to Jeff


The Broken Flowers trailer

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Broken Flowers: the Jim Jarmusch directed, Bill Murray infected dry as the Sahara comedy/drama in which a former Don Juan seeks out a semi- identified offspring. Sounds sort of like the Ben Stiller movie Flirting with Disaster in reverse. That's twice we've mentioned Ben today, and we apologize.

The Broken Flowers trailer [Focus Features]

Emo Philips - The Can Man

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Odd comedic genius Emo Philips' 1992 silent short "comedy tribute
to that unsung hero of the urban ecosystem."

Directed by Greg Glienna, who soon after this did the original Meet the Parents, which seems a hell of a lot better than the one with Ben Stiller... if you can possibly imagine something being better than a Ben Stiller movie.

Emo Philips - The Can Man

A potato shot through a wall with a cannon

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See a potato shot through a wall with a cannon! Why? So when you're in the hospital about to snuff it you can look your family in their glistening eyes and tell them honestly that you haven't wasted your whole life. Are you still reading this? Go watch some dude shoot a potato through a wall with a cannon!

Potato Cannon Blast Through Wall [Mondo Park]

Aibo Does Daft Punk

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See an Aibo named Olivia Newton John rocking out to electro unit Daft Punk as the winner in Sony's contest... that, uh, contest to see which Aibo can best rock out to Daft Punk, apparently. No vaginas are bitten, at least not on camera, but it manages to be pretty entertaining, as the robot dog synchs up to this kind of music pretty tightly.

Aibo Does Daft Punk [Sony]
Seen @ mfisn

Can't get enough? More of this sort of thing can always be found at Abio Hack.

Vagina Bites

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Ha ha! small dogs and the people who own them are a delight. A delight. "Showdog Moms & Dads", a Bravo channel oddity, spawned a wee meme last May with a random nutty woman, and it's still going strong.

The College Humor page this short video is embedded in, and a direct link to the Windows media file, if their banners are too much for your workplace.

June 20, 2005

How to be a Cyber Lovah

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Single? Ready to mingle? Having troubles? Plagued by dates with Asperger's Syndrome? Let Cyber Lovah numba one Herb Zipper show you the true path to gettin' some. It ain't all just about because he's so pretty, yo.

How to be a Cyber Lovah [eBaulm's world]

June 17, 2005

The Whitest Kids U Know - Scarin' Babies

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The kid in this short has to be at least 6 months old, and he's had it far too good for far too long; time for some reality, punk.
Ala the Skit comedy group The Whitest Kids U Know, (who on their way to the Sundance Channel, evidently).

· The Whitest Kids U Know - Scarin' Babies

· One of the Whitest Kids' many short videos available on the intarweb.

· Via The Apiary

Great White Shark Attack

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"Watch in horror as a surfer in South Africa gets attacked by not one, but TWO Great Whites!"
Horror, schadenfreude, whichever. One shark? Fair enough, it's the ocean. Two at once? Sharks aren't pack animals, this dude was surfing with pockets full of gravy or kittens or something.

Great White Shark Attack [surfermag]
Seen @ Linkfilter

June 16, 2005

Augenblick Studios Inc.

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Watch many fine small animated features at he mighty Augenblick Studios Inc., they of Shorties Watchin' Shorties fame.

· Augenblick Studios Inc.
· Shorties Watchin' Shorties segments
Via Drawn.

Ebony

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bLoNd cHiLi productions' collaboration with the mighty fine Citizens Against Safety Goggles, short film Ebony tells the tale in which "a jogger and a donut go head-to-head and end up learning about each other in the process." Mortal enemies coming together for a better tomorrow.

Ebony [blondchili.com]

June 15, 2005

The Rooster Project

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An animated short "tragic romantic comedy horror cartoon epic in a 12-piece bucket value meal." The Rooster Project features some pretty great animation, and an interesting set of influences for what seems like a simple spastic comedy.

The Rooster Project [Citizens Against Safety Goggles]

June 14, 2005

The Magic Portal

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The Magic Portal : a student created stop-motion sci-fi short using Lego.

"The story concerns the strange fate of a Lego astronaut called L, who discovers the Magic Portal on board his giant spaceship. The Portal takes him to a strange and surreal Lego world where he has a close encounter with a Monster and barely escapes with his life. His report to Captain Paranoia only gets him to trouble and his friend and shipmate P, doesn't believe him. However, the Portal has a mind of its own, and reappears to upset the cosy world of the giant spaceship and its crew to reveal weirder worlds more peculiar than the last..."

Download the film and check out the creation process at the site, as well as the interesting history of what is possibly the first of the "brick films."

The Magic Portal

Lacrosse Fight

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A quick clip of a high school Lacrosse game that goes bad.

"As the oldest team sport in North America, Lacrosse has always been held up as the most dignified of the contact sports. But that doesn't mean it can't devolve into stick-wielding mayhem once in awhile."

We bet there were some terse exchanges on the ride home in a dozen SUVs on that night... with many horrible groundings and loss of XBox privileges.

Lacrosse Fight
[iFilm]

Rob Schrab's Batman

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With the Batman Begins movie hype in full Xenu... effect, we mean... in full effect, we thought we'd reminisce of the Batman movie that should have been: Rob Schrab's Batman.

Rob Schrab's Batman Forever... and ever [Channel 101]

· Also with Rob Schrab: Robot Bastard
· And: Robin's Big Date

Peeping Tommy

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Ben Ib's ode to the glorious porn of the 70s, complete with washed out colors and sexed up office babes all receiving a little Three's Company style misinterpretation from a lonely watchman.

Peeping Tommy (Director's Cut) [Colonel Blimp]

Fast Film

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If you've seen Virgil Widrich's amazing 2001 Oscar-nominated short Copy Shop (if not, watch it now), Fast Film will seem like the logical follow-up:

"On the surface, Fast Film tells a simple story. A woman is kidnapped and a man sets off to save her, embarking on a dramatic rescue mission full of wild chase scenes. What makes Fast Film unique is that all its scenes were taken from 300 different feature films. Director Virgil Widrich captured stills from the 300 movies, and made over 65,000 photocopies of these, then folded them into a variety of shapes and animated them. The result is a completely fresh look at Hollywood - a tour of movie history at breakneck speed."

Virgil Widrich's Fast Film [Channel4]

Tetris

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A giant Tetris block wanders the streets... y'know, just trying to fit in.

Part of the Mega 64 series of live action renactments of video games.

Tetris [Something Awful]

June 13, 2005

How to end a marriage, with Darth Vader

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Mamas, don't let your daughters grow up to marry Star Wars nerds.

Darth Vader [Postcrap] With thanks to Xiu

Play With Me

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One of the many slightly creepy doll-based animated creations to be found at the Van Sowerwine website. While there, check out Clara, their stop-motion short which got a nod at Cannes this year.

·Play With Me
·The Van Sowerwine site
·Clara

June 10, 2005

Simply The Best

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"From what I understand this is a group of American Idol rejects singing at half time of some sporting event. This is hilarious. Check out how many times the dude in the white shirt does his spin move"

Hilarious, unfortunately funnier if you have the speakers up to hear it, which is like reaching into a hornet's nest for a stick of gum, but what can you do.

Simply The Best [Bog Boys]

Nick Shaefer Teaches How To Rob A Convenience Store

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Let Nick Shaefer show you the path to instant wealth. Because Money Is Awesome.
Funny, and pretty slick overall, considering it's a project for a film class.

· Nick Shaefer Teaches How To Rob A Convenience Store [archive.org]
· The Team Zakk Blog

Who's Bad?!

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You know how it is: in life what you really want is to dance, but you also want to carry weapons. So you join a dance troupe, but you keep a .45 in your pants. You do a split and accidentally blow a colleague's nard off.* Shunned from the dancing world, you become a cop... the dancingiest cop ever to blow pure sunshine into a conevience store in the middle of the night!

Who's Bad?! [putfile.com] Seen @ Vh1's Best Week Ever.

*Uninformed speculation.

Polly Wally

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A new Goodie Bag short which explores modern relationships. Well, one modern relationship, with lots of people. Has not safe for work sounds, unless you work at Abu Gharib.

Polly Wally [goodiebag.tv]

June 9, 2005

Ghostbot

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Animator Roque Ballesteros has seven shorts up at fantastic animation site Ghostbot, all of which feature his lightly retro style and spastic sense of humor. Our favorite is Twin Induction PSA, but he makes it hard to pick.

The other two artists featured at Ghostbot, Alan Lau and Brad Rau, are no slouches themselves, and many fine short examples of their styles and upcoming projects are on display.

Ghostbot
Seen @ Drawn

Shatner Does Seven

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One of the better parodies from the MTV Movie Awards, this one staring William Shatner(s), in which he acts out the end bit of Seven, goofing not only on that movie but on his TV roles. What others say with snark we say with sincerity: the motherstuffer can act.

Shatner Does Seven [Milk And Cookies]

Catch and Release

CAR232323.JPGCatch and Release : a fake ad for a product we wish we could give to every interviewer who has to listen to Katie Homes Teddy Ruxpin on and on about how happy she is being lightly molested by a closeted Scientologist. Alegedly.

Catch and Release [K Humpty]

The Post Secret slideshow

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Andrew Volk's montage of entries made to Frank Warren's previously mentioned confession site Post Secret.

Post Secret [Internet Archive]

Ministry Messiah

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Gints Apsits' amazing animated film, which would appear to be taking a peek into Jesus' martyrdom, but also seems open to interpretation. Cool electronic beats going on behind the gothic/messianic imagery as well.

Ministry Messiah [Gints Apsits]

June 8, 2005

Goth Ball

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Short film net hub iFilm interviews Batman Begins people Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine and director Christopher Nolan at the premiere... complete with a black carpet and Nine Inch Nails in the background.

Bruce Wayne must have one fuck of a Live Journal somewhere.

Batman Begins interviews [iFilm ]

Candy Shop

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Liquid Generation's latest Flash goof, in which Tom Cruise sings 50 Cent's Candy shop, with Katie Holmes filling in for Olivia. We hear a wild rumor that both Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have major motion pictures due this summer.

Candy Shop [Liquid Generation]

Emo Farm

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A short film which details life on the Emo Farm.

"We just harbor `em. We don't really know what to do with `em. They don't like to be touched... they're shin-kickers"

This made even the Emo kid we were sitting on while watching it laugh.

Emo Farm [bohemian films]
Seen @ Fazed

Monday 9am

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A Flash site that throws up a new short every week. Fair enough. Then, they get kind of silly about it :


"Our intention is to cause you to question ... 'is what you are doing and how you are being a true reflection of who you really are?" ... are you really alive or simply existing?'"

Very Socratic. So far Monday 9am seems to think we're a music video that looks like an interstitial from the closed circuit music channel you find in the better state colleges. We didn't know this about us. Still, there is always next week. Check `em out.

Monday 9am

Catching A Tornado

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Footage frome inside a tornado.

"It's a technological first. A well-placed probe fitted with 7 video cameras-6 with a 60-degree field-of-view designed to achieve a full 360-degree field-of-view (one failed during deployment, resulting in a 300-degree field-of-view) and one pointing upward-captures footage inside a tornado."

Big deal. We saw Bill Paxton do this like 10 years ago, and that guy seems like an idiot.

·Catching A Tornado [National Geographic]

·Also, catch storm chaser Tim Samaras gas on about how he'll get more girls than you could ever possibly hope to, even if you wear a suit woven from crisp $100 bills. [National Geographic]

June 7, 2005

Hitchhiker

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Simon Reeves' stop-motion CG animated short in which a lost traveler tries to find his way out of the wasteland.

Hitchhiker [Neural Interface]

Ukulele Freaks

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Found the short film Ukulele Freaks while googling around for details on The Midnight Ukulele Disco post. They say it's the World's First Ukulele Musical, and we believe them. Stars Sonic Uke, the Yngwie Malmsteen of the uke set.

Ukulele Freaks

The Midnight Ukulele Disco

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Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Ukulele TV, on the web. Want that in ukulele? The Midnight Ukulele Disco can do that for you, no sweat. From the requisite Tiny Bubbles, to Bull In The Heather to I've Got A Booger In My Nose, the site is packed with videos of uke performances.

Bonus points for smooth, simple webpage design; we found ourselves checking out clips left and right because the interface begs it. Talked us into the whole ukulele thing. Wish this approach would catch on.

The Midnight Ukulele Disco

Peter Jackon's personal Country Bear Jamboree

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A video of King Kong Director Peter Jackson's house band, an assortment of live instruments automated to play MIDI files, player piano style. Supposedly $100,000 worth of equipment going on here... which we believe is roughly a hundred times the expense of just having Wilco show up and sound like that for real. If we had Lord Of The Rings money we'd stop kidding around and just buy slaves outright.

Peter Jackson's setup [Ragtimewest]
Seen @ boing boing

June 6, 2005

A steaming pile of Sith

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Maddox reviews Episode III. We liked it until we read this. Now, we feel silly.

Star Wars Episode III: a steaming pile of Sith [the best page in the universe]

Car Cam Project

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"I was bored after my finals and decided to do something fun. I had a Logitech Quickcam Express webcam for 3 years which sucked all the time. It had a very poor video quality and didnt work well in my dimmed room. So I decided to mount it in front of my car."

Three videos (so far) ensue. If more people did this, we'd have more videos like this... which will be fun for that brief period before putting a camera in your car becomes the latest way to help out The Terrorists.

Car Cam Project [erinch.com]

June 3, 2005

The Lonely Astronaut

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1972- an astronaut gets left behind on the moon; lots of cursing at mission control ensues. A seven episode series of Flash cartoons from Twisted Mojo, currently being shown at iFilm.

The Lonely Astronaut [iFilm]

Un Chien andalou

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Even if the name "Un Chien andalou" sounds to you like some sort of French dish with garlic buttered Yak testicles or whatever it is that they eat, you most likely know the images from Luis Buuel and Salvador Dali's now 76 (!) year old surrealist shock piece. A serene woman is positioned into frame as a straight razor slices open her eyeball, ants escape from a wound, ....a nun trucks down the road on bicycle, badly. Desire, sex, death, and nuns on bicycles, all in one espresso shot of a film. Definitely check it out if the name is new to you, reacquaint with a pure moment of mind-twisting goodness if you're a fan.

· Un Chien andalou [UbuWeb]

· Luis Buuel's site

· Salvador Dali's online museum

Rusty the Narcoleptic Dog

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An unintentionally hilarious educational short about sleep disorders, featuring the help of a dachshund named Rusty.

Rusty the Narcoleptic Dog [Milk And Cookies]

With thanks to the best street knife fighter we know, Vidiot.

June 2, 2005

Deep Throat - The Daily Show

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The Daily Show show segment on the recent revelation of the identity of the Watergate informant.

Deep Throat - The Daily Show [Crooks And Liars]

Specidemons

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Jeff Scheertz's short featuring some pretty slick CG. "Think of it as Gremlins gone evil. Three genetically-engineered creatures discover their creator murdered. Together they confront the killer and his evil minions in an intense battle to the death."

Specidemons [atom Films]

The Holy Ghost People

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A somewhat famous 1967 documentary on Pentecostal Christians, the "snake handlers." The money shot here is the preacher being bitten towards the end. Basically all this clip needs for perfection is Al Jourgensen howling on in the background

The Holy Ghost People [Internet Archive]
Via Linkfilter

Recycled Percussion Solo

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Check out a video clip of currently on tour "junk rock" unit Recycled Percussion in action, on their site. Pretty impressive.

Solo [Recycled Percussion ]

Butterflies

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ZeD TV has Hidekazu Tanabe's short film listed under "Experimental Animation", which pretty much captures the sprit better than any description we have on hand. A sort of meditation on the afterlife, with fairly bitchin', stark visuals.

Butterflies
[ZeD TV]

Revolver trailer

Revolver32323.JPGGuy Ritchie's new gambling/crime/duck necrophiliac movie Revolver. We're lying about the duck thing. Probably. Although its got Jason Stratham in wig, so there's that.

A first look at Revolver [The Sun] With thanks to Peter

June 1, 2005

Jib Jabbed

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From the Jib Jabbed site :

"The Blogging Community is outraged by Jib Jab's Budweiser piece! Jib Jab, which became a popular site during the past presidential election has now received a corporate sponsorship from Budweiser. The blogsphere is upset that they owners of Jib Jab, who clearly stated they would never "sell out" are now working for Bud. Bloggers lash back with the following anti-Jib Jab clip and a slew of online chatter:"

We personally lack a sense of outrage over creative types trying to not starve to death, but this clip is damn funny and a fine, well, jab.

· The Jib Jabbed movie

· The Jib Jabbed site

· Jib Jab's blog where they rebut a bit

Rio Peligroso: A Day In The Life Of A Legendary* Coyote**

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"*Self-proclaimed; **coy-o-te : n. One who smuggles Mexican nationals illegally into Texas."
A short film featuring 25 minutes of border-jumping wacky, which made us laugh out loud like a bitter, drunken, funky-smelling weblogger several times. Exactly like one, in fact.

·Rio Peligroso: A Day In The Life Of A Legendary Coyote

·The film website

·Via the short films bit of Kevin Smith's Movies Askew site.

May 31, 2005

"You can never have enough lice pinchers."

SOCK2323.JPGSock : a surreal new Flash cartoon from David Firth. We're not sure what Mr. Firth's psychological problem is, but we're guessing it's expensive.

David Firth - Sock

More David Firth:
·The Child That Smelt Funny

·A Black And White Cartoon About Roof Tiling

·Point and Chav your ass off

The Most Extraordinary Space Investigations

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We're linking to this rightly once-rejected now embraced Channel 101 show for its sheer toss off-edness. As an entity, this short gives less of a fuck than a neutered bishop, yet somehow manages to make us laugh. Likely better than the Fantastic Four movie, we note.

The Most Extraordinary Space Investigations [Channel 101]

May 30, 2005

McLibel Trailer

MCFUCK22.JPGMcLibel is "-the story of two ordinary people, Helen Steel and Dave Morris, who were sued by McDonalds in 1990 for merely distributing a leaflet that asked, 'What's Wrong with McDonalds?' They took on the corporate juggernaut and fought a 15 year battle in the English court system. The trial drew worldwide attention as activists and media alike focused on the unlikely couple that proved a match for McDonalds."

We're so accustomed to the heavy hand of lawyers brushing aside free speech, a full length movie featuring the opposite result seems like a refreshing idea.

McLibel Trailer [iFilm]

The Clones

CLONES343434.JPGRemember that Groundhog Day movie? Right, well, that dude had it easy. The Clones is the third short film we've linked to from The Red-Headed League, and the clever ideas and better than your average bear comedic acting over there keep them as one of our favorites.

The Clones [Red-Headed League]

Also:
· The Red-Headed League presents The Bat-man! in Robins Big Date!

· False Alarm

Burning down The Mouse

wildkingdom7.JPGWild doings afoot at Disney... a Web Exclusive! bit of amusing nonsense over at Radar Magazine. See people in Disney outfits and costumes doing things you'd never imagine going on at Disney. No, not make a watchable animated feature without Pixar. Let's not get nuts. Simple stuff, like capturing park characters out in the wild.

·Wild Kingdom 7 [Radar Magazine]

·Mouse Party [Radar Magazine]

May 27, 2005

Don't Call Me Crazy On The 4th Of July

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A fabulous short documentary about Robert Landsbury, a war veteran with a slight case of paranoia, who believes a secret government program is up to invisible and constant mass mind control, sort of like the aliens were up to in "They Live." Richard Pell's documentary is great because he manages to make Robert Landsbury absolutely acceptable, and so their journey together is more amusing than simply tragic.

Don't Call Me Crazy On The 4th Of July

Clone Trooper Orchestra

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Clone Trooper Orchestra: A CG toon that blends all the cool of playing with toys you're too old for, with a movie aimed at 12 year olds, combined with all the style of band camp. You're through the looking nerd on this one, junior.

Part of the Revenge Of The Brick Lego/Star Wars marketing extravaganza going on at Cartoon Network.

·Clone Trooper Orchestra [Treehouse] via Howard
·The Revenge Of The Brick movie [Lego]

Batman Begins (the 10 minute trailer)

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The ten minute long trailer shown recently on the WB network. As the title informs us, it's a bigggie, so perhaps not such a pleasant ride for you Alexander graham bell fanatics. Movie looks good to us... until Batman shows up in the suit, at which point he sort of looks like a radial.

Batman Begins (the 10 minute trailer)[The Movie List]

Y-Front, Mittens, and Foreigners

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Three amusing short clips of "exclusive webcam footage" featuring Ricky Gervais (The Office), Stephen Merchant (also the Office) and Karl Pilkington (fuck if we know) goofing around in the studio to promote their Xfm radio show.

Y-Front, Mittens, and Foreigners - Exclusive Webcam Footage [Xfm]

*Karl Pilkington is the producer of Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant's XFM radio show. he is oft referred to as a 'bald mank twat' by the two, owing to the fact that karl is from manchester. Karl is a semi-celebrity in his own right.
Via "KarenGeierCA" on IM.

Indie Rock Cribs

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Great promotional idea from band The Pernice Brothers - goof on MTV's Cribs with a slightly less than bling version.

"It came to me as if in a dream, but I was wide awake, coveting a mesh onion bag full of suet hanging from a bird feeder: There ought to be a show like MTV Cribs for indie musicians/actors. Maybe MTV2 could do it (if they haven't already) and call it MTV2 Cribs. Think about it. In a way it's sad that it has come to this. Would that the pimped-out Hummers and drive-in sized plasma screens could lock me to my own TV the way they once could, long ago, in say, March of this year. The thirst is no less strong, but oh, satisfaction, you capricious little tart, where do you go? Where do you go when glimpses inside Usher's great room no longer titillate?"

The Pernice Brothers - Indie Rock Cribs
Via Seterogum

May 26, 2005

Star Wars: Revenge of the Width

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A video clip of the Star Wars Kid thing again, only this time with a middle aged individual, half naked, man-tits a flying, and in the woods.

And hey, let he who is without sin cast the first stone, right? When we saw "Searching for Bobby Fisher" we'd find chess playing 8 year olds in the park and angrily sweep all of the pieces off the board to shock the kid into a mental visualization of the game like Ben Kingsley did to the kid in that movie, and yes, we were half-naked when we did this, but we didn't tape it. That's what gets us: not the geekery, but that there is visual record of it. Where was this thing going but the internet?

Anyway, enjoy the clip. You'll never eat a Twinkie again.

"Jedi Retard"
[m90.org]

May 25, 2005

Baby! Fix that fuse box!

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A kid with a mission. Baby! Fix that fuse box! A short from NYC-based sketch comedy group Elephant Larry.
Involes tossed babies.

Baby! Fix that fuse box! [Elephant Larry]

Progressive Crash Videos

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The Progressive insurance company has a fine and well indexed collection of crash test videos on their site. If you're anything like us, with years of driving among half-alert soccer moms who value yelling at the kids in the back seat in their ginormous family glacier over, say, not killing us, then you really can't have a better five minutes watching a bunch of dummies in an SUV smack into concrete, leaving red splotches at the impact points.

Progressive Crash Videos

May 24, 2005

The Cat With Hands

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The Cat With Hands is a particularly creepy short animation/live footage blend in which creatures perversely trade body parts.

The Cat With Hands [ZeD]

Divertor

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A Rob Smigel animated clip from SNL which offers a handy explanation for the way the American public's attention conveniently shifts away from anything of use right when it suits The People In Charge.

Fear And Diversion [One Good Move]

Plumber

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Watch the impressive multi-award winning 3D animated short Plumber, and read rather extensively about its creation and what goes into making one of these things.

Plumber [Richard Rosenman.com]

Lunch

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Matthew Ehlers' quick short in which the new guy on the job broadens the horizons of his coworkers with his bag lunch.

Lunch [eggwork.com]
Seen @ z-filter.com

Coffee Chat

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A quick film in which some regular dudes get down over the office coffee machine and hash over the details of a new path to gratification.

Coffee Chat [Goodie Bag TV]

Also:
·Nancys New Age Bargain Warehouse

·MILF Hotline

May 20, 2005

Serenity wow

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CulturePulp comic striper M.E. Russell gets a sneak peek at the upcoming Firefly movie. He toons the experience, and works us up into a fine froth over seeing this film, for which the praise has been so far nearly unilateral.

·CulturePulp 028: 'Serenity' Now!

·The Serenity Trailer

A quick shot of licker

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"When I lick someone, I want to be the first tongue on that spot. I want to baptize it."

A clever short video featuring a confessional narrative from a stranger-licker.

Confession, by Jim Munroe [No Media Kings]

May 19, 2005

"Give us free... Latte."

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Hot Coffee, a fun short from the Big Bucket Head sketch comedy group in which lives are destroyed and pandemonium ensues from a chain reaction of misunderstandings resulting from coffee with steamed milk in it... which is pretty much what we've been saying all along about these stupid $4 milkshakes since the mid-90s or so, but no one listens to us.

Hot Coffee [Big Bucket Head]

My Wife, The Ghost

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Episode one of a fine goof on the wretched classic sitcoms of the past like Bewitched.
It's the maid that pulls this one together for us. We're pretty sure we've just met the future mother of our children.
Episode two is in the works, and will complete the Boss is coming over for dinner plot laid out in this one.

My Wife, The Ghost [Channel102]

Retire

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"A retirement home for cops. A simple retirement home."

If you have a cop relative who seems like they might actually make it to retirement, even after declaring out loud in the quieter moments between car chases to their renegade partner that they're only a coupla weeks from retirement, then Luke Ward has a commercial which might interest you.

Retire [Drop The Tray Films]

Thin The Herd

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Albert Einstein once said "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." In Nick Collett's short film, it works both ways.

Thin The Herd [Flynn Productions]

False Alarm

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False Alarm - a ridiculously funny short film in which new eyes are opened unto the slightly taboo, perfectly acceptable and healthy expression of love in our contemporary society known as the golden shower.

This thing is, pardon the expression, gold start to stop, but it's the Weegee stand in that made us snort our coffee.

False Alarm [Redheaded League]

-> WeeGee

May 18, 2005

Star Wars Radio Ads

LOBOT.JPGFive pleasantly quaint old radio ads for the original trilogy, in MP3 format.

Star Wars Radio Ads [A Small Victory]

Psycho Shower

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A 3D animation in which animated happy bouncing happy balls recreate the famous Janet Leigh shower scene in Psycho. We haven't been this startled by a pair of pink balls in the shower since the one time we mistook a trapped jolly rancher under there for a tumor.

The animation is part of a larger collection of 3D animation by artist Tim Farrell.

Psycho Shower [deadmonkeycomics.com]

Stupid Questions

FONZIECALL.JPGAn animated clip created around Dan Snierson interviewing Henry Winkler for EW's Stupid Questions. "This was created for a television version of "Entertainment Weekly" for VH-1 in 2004. The show never went forward... but I'll always have the memories of Mr. Winkler in a pimp coat."

Stupid Questions [russellarch.com]

One of many animations to be found at Russell Arch's site.

May 17, 2005

Elevator World

ELEVATORWORLD.JPGMitchell Rose's short film which explains the temporary reality we all enter at one point in our lives, a little parallel universe found in the confines of an elevator.

·Elevator World
·Mitchell Rose.com, which is stuffed with other quality shorts.

Derrick Borte

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Director Derrick Borte's site is chock full of his clever work, which we'd like to cite specific examples of, but it's locked away behind a Flash sneeze guard of a website which prevents us from doing that. Absolutely worth a visit however, his short films and commercials are great, and the site itself is patrolled by interesting woden droids.

Derrick Borte

Kitchen Sink

KITCHENSINK.JPGA creepy and fantastic little number from director Alison Maclean in which a clog in the sink leads to a problematic new relationship, and also the total freedom of the female soul from the grip of the patriarchal system we live in. We made up that last part. There feels like something deeper going on under this thing, but we're too dim to really grasp it, and that sounded good.

Kitchen Sink [atom films]

Four More Years of Vader

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The shinny black Sith who is a sex machine to one of the chicks does a little media spin in order to keep things flowing smoothly in the post-Galactic Senate universe.

Four More Years of Vader [iFilm]

Mime of passion

actions_speak.JPGActions Speak Louder Than Words: a short film love story, with a twist of mime.
- that is ahead of its mime.
- that is all mime and no reason.
...a mime against humanity.
....is a mime a dozen.

Stop us.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words [Spoiler films]
With thanks to Kim

May 16, 2005

Rize

RIZE.JPGThe recent trailer for Rize, a film by David LaChapelle.
Evidently about the street dancing style known as "Krumping" developed in South Central Los Angeles, born in the `92 riots.

·Rize info
·Rize trailer

Freaky LaChapelle MAC lipstick spot from 2001.

Dodge `88

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Tim drives an Aries. That's a Dodge Aries, bitch. Tim drives the shit out of it. It's an Aries. From 1988. Tim keeps it real.

A well-produced, and hilarious homemade ad spoof.
Provided you don't drive an `88 Aries, that is. If you do drive an `88 Aries, we guess it's a harsh ray of sunlight into the nightshade mushroom that is your life, and we're sorry about that. But at least you've got that Aries, right?

·Dodge `88 [Big Boys]

Putting the "public" in PSA

PREGNANTOMG.JPGToothpaste is a teen pregnancy public service announcement crafted by the intended target, high school-age teen girls. What forces teenagers into PSA-ing on their own time? The cranial/rectal approach to education known as "abstinence-only", the only variety available in their school system of Mission, TX... a school system with some of the highest highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the US, by the way.

·MSN news item on the film [MSN]
·The film's website, where you can watch it. The "modem" link works in Explorer, but not not Firefox, it seems. [Scenarios USA]

Via MonkeyFilter

May 13, 2005

Bullet in the Brain

ullet in the Brain.JPGDavid von Ancken's short film adaptation of the Tobia Wolff short story with an interesting premise: "after interrupting a robbery, the life of an eccentric professor flashes before his eyes."

Bullet in the Brain
[ZeD tv]

Duck Take Cover Again

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Duck Take Cover Again is Maurice Henry's video mash up of Fatboy Slim's Bird Of Prey, rare atomic bomb tests, and an old duck and cover style atom bomb "safety" drill PSA.

Duck Take Cover Again [undergroundfilm]

Crazy Frog

CRAZYFROG.JPGSomehow, by which we mean willfully, we missed Bass Bumpers' Crazy Frog clip, a viral-ish sort of a thing for some pretty annoying ringtones. Our mistake, as while the music makes us want to commit suicide by shoving our face into whatever does that to Donald Trump's hair, the video itself, a rollercoaster-like CG chase through 3D streets, is undeniably cool. (Evidently before becoming a marketing thing, the Crazy Frog character was known as The Annoying Thing. Note the troublesome wang.)

Bass Bumpers- Crazy Frog/Axel F [Flash]

May 12, 2005

Devil Dogs

DEVILdogs32.JPGNetwork/video hub 29HDN are showcasing an exhibition in Manhattan called Devil Dogs which tells the story of the Marines in Iraq. A collaboration with photojournalist Lucian Read, the show will feature "never seen before video footage from the battle in Iraq shot by over a dozen Marines." 29HDN will make the show components available for direct download to the Sony PSP handheld device at their site.

29HDN - main site
The Devil Dogs bit

Alanis Morissette: We're with the Band

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A goof on those "backstage peek" sort of shows, in the Spinal Tapian manner. Includes Andy Dick and a little naked Morissette ass as she pees into a paper cup.

Alanis Morissette: We're with the Band [Ifilm]

May 11, 2005

I Love The 30s

ILOVETHE30s.JPGIf VH1 had in fact been around in the 30s, we imagine this show would have been fairly popular the first 400 times it aired that week, but perhaps not as much as Babe Ruth's Top 100 Things Hookers Won't Do Cheaply, which had name appeal.

I Love The 30s Episode 1: Lindberg Baby Kidnapping
It has a Negro in it!

Via the messy eaters of You Can't Make It Up

May 10, 2005

Starbucking your way to the middle

starbucks234234.JPGStarbucking is a documentary currently in production detailing the so far 8 year trek of a guy named Winter, a man dedicated to visiting every Starbucks in the world.

We find this interesting for two reasons: one, we ourselves are on exactly the opposite quest, and two, Starbucks opens up roughly one outlet a day... which means if Winter takes longer than 24 hours to get to an outlet, his workload doubles. Not that you can actually go 24 hours without encountering one, but he could get a cramp or something. Seems like an interesting way to live.

Starbucking site and trailers

Winter's blog Starbucks Everywhere.

May 9, 2005

Last Days Trailer

LASTDAYS32.JPGGus Van Zant's film Last Days speculates on Kurt Cobain's final hours before he sought the ultimate in sinus relief. Seems hard to win with a film like this-- if you're fan of Nirvana it'll probably seem needless and commoditizing, if you're not a fan of Nirvana it'll seem like Michael Pitt mumbling about for two hours in a goofy outfit, fucked out of his brains. Nevertheless, the advance word had been positive, and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon pops up in it.

Last Days Trailer [mk2.com]

The Touch

THETOUCH423.JPGThe Touch by frequent soundtrack contributor Stan Bush has the distinction of being in both Transformers the movie and Boogie Nights. We can't help you with the Dirk Diggler rendition, but if you'd like to see a mid 80s rock video with a giant CG Optimus Prime, then you're all set with this link:

The Touch [seibertron]
video download
stills gallery

Trailers

Hermione.JPGThe trailers for two new Harry Potter movies come around over the weekend, Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire (we look forward to the gay porn version of that title) and Harry Potter, The Kids In The Other Franchises Are Starting To Shave... or Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe. Either title is fine.

If you're in a hurry and not into downloading these trailers, we'll cut the chase for you: Hermione is cuter than ever, but still a movie or two away from being old enough to fill the jailbait gap left by the Olsen Twins, who are now, somehow, 42 and 54.

May 6, 2005

The Red-headed League presents The Bat-man! in Robin's Big Date!

ROBINsBIGdate.JPGThis short is hands down the funniest thing we've seen in many a moon... we'll let it speak for itself, save for the fact that it stars Sam Rockwell, Zaphod Beeblebrox himself, as Batman.

Robin's Big Date! [Redheaded League]

Pink Five

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So "Pink Five" is a Star Wars fan film in which a valley girl takes over the role of Luke Skywalker. It is as funny as it sounds, and it won the "George Lucas Selects" award in the 2003 Star Wars Fan Film Awards.. a trophy which looks like a small gold virgin, we think.
Anyway, it was so popular that it spawned an inevitable sequel, Pink Five Strikes Back, which won the Audience Choice Award in that year's Fan Film Awards. Such popularity has lead to the closing of the trilogy with Return of Pink Five, which is still in production. We were turned on to by Pink Five by the Culture Pup comic strip, which is good place to start; read it, then watch the two shorts, and the trailer for big number three.

·CulturePulp 027: Raging Fanboy Vader!
·Pink Five [atom Films]
·Pink Five Strikes Back [atom Films]
·Return of Pink Five Totally Random Production Diary [Blogspot] and the Return of Pink Five trailer [MSN]

May 5, 2005

On the Sunny Side of the Street

On the Sunny Side of the Street.JPG2003 CG Animated short On the Sunny Side of the Street is German animation house Soulcage's homage to Charlie Chaplain, emulating the look and feel of comedies from the 20s, and the jittery technology they rode in on. The short is funny, and look is very effective; the forced low-techiness of the style pulls the viewer in with a "less is more" approach.

On the Sunny Side of the Street [Soulcage]
Via Drawn

May 3, 2005

One Lucky Fan

ONELUCKYFAN.JPGA short film in which a Paris Hilton-esque socialite is revealed to be the architect of her own loopy attempts at notoriety, and who will go as far as she needs to for that misguided fame. What a silly concept! It'd probably sell a lot of books if certain Dakota Fanning jokes are allowed to stay in, which they won't be.

The Tinkerbel, er, One Lucky Fan [atom films] With thanks to Peter.

We'd rather a bottle in front of us

TRANSORBITAL423.JPGWatch a trailer for A Hole In One, a somewhat playful movie centered around the development of the transorbital lobotomy (for a full, wrenching description of transorbital lobotomies catch this episode [Real format] of PRI's To The Best of Our Knowledge), with broader themes of American paranoia, and more importantly, Meat Loaf.

"It would be so beautiful to have a lobotomy in America right now."

A Hole In One

Gym Class

FINGERBANG.JPGWith 10 fingers on every student, tension mounts and things get hairy real fast in gym class one fateful day in this funny short from comedy unit Olde English.

Gym Class [Olde English]

MILF Hotline

MILF43243.JPGThe MILF Hotline. She's alone. She's Russian. She's plural.
Ready to drop doesn't necessarily mean ready to stop. Ahhhhh, yeah.

MILF Hotline [Goodiebag TV]



May 2, 2005

Mobile Movie Theater

ockfish3r232.JPGAtom Films is now offering small movies like Rockfish for the Sony PSP.

Mobile Movie Theater [atom films]

A Hero Falls

darthvader.JPGA Hero Falls is one of 16 music videos from the Episode III score, which are included a 70-minute DVD that accompanies the soundtrack release.

A Hero Falls [starwars.com]

April 29, 2005

The Headshot

HEADSHOT.JPGA short film in which the tortures of life and the resulting internal monologues make their way onto camera, allowing one a sneak peek at the naked human condition. Or something. The purchase of Chinese babies is considered.

The Headshot [Chelseaperetti.com]

For our NYC readers, see Chelsea Peretti, the ever-so-humble lead singer in Headshot, live tonight in the bi-monthly comedy show This'N'More, at the The Gene Frankel Theater.

April 28, 2005

The day the dotted lines ran red

Panique453535.JPGAnimation site ZZZ Mutations has some clever short clips. Marcio Ambrosio's stop motion short Panique la cit! being our favorite at the moment.




Racist Brick

rbrick234.JPGA pretty funny short in which hate speech makes an unfortunate pit stop. One of the many fine comedy shorts from Adam and Dave.

Racist Brick
Adam and Dave movies



Wrong Number Phone Message

rong Number Phone Message.JPGAnimator Bruce Alcock gives images to an unfortunate voicemail.
"A crazed old man living in the Pacific Northwest woods leaves a vitriolic message on the wrong machine. In stop motion animation and the medium of junk, doilies, lumber, leaves, berries, and plaid, the film pictures who he is and how he lives."

Wrong Number Phone Message [Global Mechanic.com] Seen @ boing boing

April 27, 2005

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

LEAUGE234.JPGA trailer for the upcomming film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse which opens up in the UK in june. Very much a cult thing here in The States, which enjoyed perhaps a full three weeks or so on Comedy Central, the League of Gentlemen thankfully remains a hit over the pond, and the upcomming film in which the residents of Royston Vasey cross over into our own universe seems appropriately odd.

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse [uip.co.uk/]With thanks to Mimi

Undo

Undo234.JPGPolish animator Marcin Wasko's debut animated film Undo, in which a man in strange library tries to change fate by ripping out a page of his existence.

Marcin Wasko's Undo [lila.platige]

April 26, 2005

"Groovy."

inyASH.JPGFan made nerd films at their kill-goofy best: highly indestructible Connor MacLeod from Highlander meets extremely tenacious Ash from The Evil Dead. Plasticine ensues.

DEBIL DEAD [AICN]

Serenity Trailer today at Apple

firfly2342.JPGThe first trailer for Serenity, the movie version of the dead before its time Fox "space western" show/DVD zombie Firefly hits the Apple trailer site today at 4pm, EST. The trailer will also be on the big screen this Friday, likely with The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

The film versions of well-liked yet somehow non-viable Fox television hiccups Greg The Bunny, Futurerama, Arrested Development and Wonderfalls not in the works, ever. Because Fox fucking hates you peasants and detests you for insisting on trying to watch their pretty network with your dirty eyes. Thinking about it, our irritation goes all the way back to VR.5. We wish Tom DeLay would let Fox Television handle his living will.

Serenity trailer [apple]

April 25, 2005

Tinky Winky, The Last Of The Teletubbies

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It's hard to run, we guess, when you've got a television monitor logged in your belly and a weight problem. An odd little CG animation which seems to deal with what must the last lingering vestiges of the Teletubbies backlash.

Tinky Winky, The Last Of The Teletubbies [Kontraband]

Uni-tards

supermanoutfit234.JPGA consensus seems to have formed on the new Supersuit: too dark, the symbol is too small, and overall needlessly fussed with since the 1978 version. The magic that is Adobe allows those with a preference to dream out loud.

For the most part we're content to let a movie actually happen first before having a problem with it, however if we had to nit-pick, we can't help but notice that the Man Of Steel is seriously lacking in a way that no one else is pointing out, and so our retouching efforts go something like this. Now, we see this running towards us in a dark alley, we're dropping the car stereo and trucking like the Doo-Dah Man, post haste.

April 21, 2005

Manakin Moonwalk

MANAKIN.JPGWatch a quick hilarious Flash of a small South America bird that twitches so fast it sort of defies gravity. It moonwalks and does a sideways slide thing like James Brown does on one foot.

Manakin Moonwalk [National Geographic]

April 20, 2005

Star Wars Revelations

REVE23423423424.JPGWe'd avoided this independently produced fan film because, well, it's a fan film and it's 47 minutes long. The CGI effects are amazing however, and in some places capture the feel of the hardware in the original films better than the current batch of render-happy images pumped out of Lucasfilm. No one is winning an Oscar for the acting, but it's hard not to be very impressed with the Star Wars-y feel of some of these scenes. There is a trailer to whet your interest.

Star Wars Revelations [Panic Struck Productions]

April 11, 2005

Dukes of Hazzard trailer review

dukes342.JPGAin't It Cool News takes a sneak peek at trailer for the upcoming Dukes of Hazzard movie. Moriarty seems to like it, we're not so enthusiastic. The real question, will the Duke Boys still manage to peel out the General Lee's tires on loose dirt, remains unanswered.

Dukes of Hazzard [Ain't It Cool News]

April 8, 2005

Elsewhere

ELSEWHERE.JPGBrian Drysdale's 1998 short in which a young Belfast boy believes himself to reincarnated from a man killed by his own father. The plot sort of dares you to stick with it, but it's entertaining enough to justify having to pay attention to something somewhat deep for 13 minutes, and it's one of the better takes on reincarnation we've seen.

Elsewhere [ZeD]

April 6, 2005

The Final Scene In Se7en Performed By Stuffed Animals

WHATSINTHEBOX.JPG"Seven Redux." Teh funny. Here.
(with thanks to Nik)

April 5, 2005

Prey Alone

PREYALONE.JPG"Special Agent Darris Cain is on the hunt for an elusive fugitive. His only leads are a reluctant witness held in a military prison and the words prey alone written in a notebook."
Prey Alone is a stunningly good homemade (literally homemade, as in on PCs) action short, in which all of the sets are digital. Watch the film and read about the creation process in a three part interview posted at the creator's website. A crash course in modern DYI filmmaking. Hollywood is frickn' doomed.

Adland: Building Sin City from scratch

SINCITY.JPGOver at Adland, regular contributor Dabitch has an interesting and quick-reading interview with key personnel from California based computer design house CafFX, responsible for the stunning black-and-white comic book ultra noir look of the environments in Sin City.

Adland: Building Sin City from scratch

Also, if you missed it the first time, watch the amazing Sin City tie-in short Rats, which features the same style as the movie.

April 4, 2005

2003:The Short Film

2003.JPG"2003 is the real life documentary account of a bored Australian multimedia designer living in Scotland who suddenly found himself touring with a pseudo-famous band throughout Europe and the States."
A man and his camera manage to stuff an entire year of globe trotting, picking up on dames and gonzo partying into 2 and a half minutes in a dizzying whirlwind of film


2003: The Short Film
[Filmwatcher]

Bring Me the head of Charlie Brown

HEADOFCHUCKB.JPGBring Me the head of Charlie Brown is a late 80s student film from Simpsons director Jim Reardon, in which The Great Pumpkin puts a hit out on first real Emo kid, Charile Brown, pitting Peanut against Peanut. An amusing riff on the Peanuts animated specials of the 60s.

Bring Me the head of Charlie Brown [Animehell] With thanks to Jane

New Star Wars Episode III television spots

Darthep31.JPGThree new television commercials for Revenge Of The Sith hit the terrestrial airwaves over the weekend. The first, "Teaser" is an edited down version of, surprisingly, the teaser trailer."Dark Side Unleashed" and "Tragedy" feature new footage from the movie... which if we see any more of at this point it will ruin our being horribly disappointed in the theater next month.

New Episode III television spots [The Force.net]

April 1, 2005

From Darkness

aquisition.JPGFrom Darkness : Nora Twomey's great animated short that is "an imaginative and lyrical retelling of an Inuit legend about a lonely fisherman who drifts into haunted waters."
Feels like Samurai Jack for grown-ups. Very smoothly done with a gritty watercolor look.

From Darkness [ZeD]

March 30, 2005

Screwed

CULTMOVIE.JPGWe're not entirely sure what is going on in this trailer, or what is going on in Screwed, the movie it is advertising, but we can tell you two things: it's a cult movie, and it's got cult people in it. On that we're absolutely certain. And not just regular cult people either, but the absolute most culty of the cult peoples.
Perhaps we can learn together - here is an interview with director Teruo Ishii, who is, and we're certain about this because the trailer was very clear on the matter, a cult figure.

Trialer for Teruo Ishii's Screwed [beq.co.jp]
Seen @ mfisn

The Old Negro Space Program

NSL34.JPG"The Shocking-But-False Story of America's Blackstronauts." In the late 50s, the Blackstronauts of NASSA landed on the moon a full three years before NASA managed to get there... of course, this has been covered up by the white media "Black blackout."

Andy Bobrow's great spoof/mockumentry/ goof on those windy Ken Burns PBS documentaries which reminds us favorably of the Negro Baseball League routine Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest would do on SNL in the early 80s. The Old Negro Space Program won the Best Film Award at the 2004 First Sundays Film Festival.

Available in multiple formats.
The Old Negro Space Program

Hunter

HUNTER.JPGYuval Nathan's fabulous 2002 CG short in which the circle of life does a loop-de-loop. Very funny, and very quick. Lightly not safe for work due to the presence of a huge proto-human wang, however it is strictly a bit of non-sexual scenery, and hence no more offensive than, say, Tony Blair's.

Hunter [Pocket Movies]

March 29, 2005

The 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Awards

EP3232.jpgThe finalists for the previously mentioned Star Wars fan film awards at Atom Films are up and ready for voting. The gamut runs wide this year, from visionary (Walk in a Bamboo Bush, which is possibly the most creative take we've ever seen on the franchise: an animation in which the more famous scenes are recreated in Japanese silk prints)-- to the silly like Wayne Barnes' Anakin Dynamite ... which is exactly what it sounds like. All of the finalists manage to find interesting takes on the concept of Star Wars, all are worth checking out.

The 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Awards [atom films]

Mantis

mantis4.JPGA droid having trouble building his ideal companion from scratch attempts to recycle the remains of one found in the garbage.
Frankenstein, Oedipus Rex, that nature special where the spiders hatch and eat the mother spider... all things the lead character might have read or watched before attempting to create life in this award-winning short from CG animator Grzegorz Jonkajtys.

Mantis [iFilm]

March 28, 2005

Drink

DRINK.JPG"Here's a tip. If you find a strange bottle of green liquid -- don't drink it. Unless, you want to go on a sky-high, skin-shedding, identity-expanding head trip."

Pat Smith's Animation Drink is fun, and it reminds us of early Bill Plympton... and that one time we learned how much like fruit juice antifreeze tastes like.

Drink [atom films]

Pingwin

pingwin.JPGPolish artist Wojtek Wawszczyk's wistful CG animatied short in which a penguin dreams of flight. The look of the film manages to make the viewer feel like they've entered an oil panting. Textured and impressive.

Pingwin [ZeD]

March 25, 2005

Truth In Advertising : Hilarious Depiction Of Obligated Veracity

truthinadvertising.JPGA clip from Tim Hamilton's short Truth In Advertising, in which the obvious is stated nakedly to comedic effect by office workers. Fan(s) of Tim Hamilton's millisecond- lived show The Downer Channel will recognize a few faces.

Truth In Advertising : 1. The Briefing [atomic.omegafusion.net]

Cobra Island Rave with He-Man and Lion-O

he-mangleem.JPGGringo J's animated spoof in which the cartoon boys with the suspicious amounts of pectoral development get down on a fantasy studio 54-ish island of sin. The joke is kinda one note, the real fun is spotting just about every western cartoon character from the 80s and 90s pop up in the background at some point.

Cobra Island Rave with He-Man and Lion-O [iFilm]

And: The He-Man mini comics that were included with the original figures. [he-man.org]

Geist

geist.JPGGeist is filmmaker Mark Hemmings' attempt to recreate the look and feel of silent era films. In it, a mysterious man shows up at a death bed and attempts to ply the old superstition of a soul being captured when a photo is taken. The technique used to create Geist is as interesting as the film; 1500 individual photographs were taken, then treated individually to look like the output from early film cameras, and then finally strung together to make an animation.

Geist [ZeD]

March 24, 2005

How To Kiss

plymtonkiss.JPGThe classic Bill Plympton animated short, How To Kiss is "adapted from a full-page gag cartoon Plympton illustrated for National Lampoon's Valentine's Day issue. 'It's kind of a takeoff on the series where Goofy teaches you how to ski or whatever and everything goes wrong.'"

How To Kiss [atomfilms]

Bub: Freelance Hitman

BUBhitman.JPGA stylish and hilarious animated short from the mighty Anton Bogaty.

Bub: Freelance Hitman [toonedin] Via Drawn!

March 23, 2005

The Commuter

The Commuter.JPGMartin Pickles' surrealist film in which an office employee shaves his face off every morning in order to blend in with the other faceless masses on their way to work.

The Commuter [gmfilm]

Ah Pook Is Here

AHPOOK.JPG"In the scattered remains of a burnt out cosmos, the last god, 'AH POOK' debates with his alter ego the trembling balance between life and death."
Director Philip Hunt skillfully blends William S. Burroughs' cranky take on mankind's little quirks with playful music and even more playful visualizations of higher being Ah Pook and his crumbling little world in this remarkable bit of animation.

Ah Pook Is Here [zed]

"When I become Death, Death is the seed from which I grow."

March 22, 2005

A Bitter Film by Don Hertzfeldt

bitterdon.JPGAh, L'Amour, the 1995 never-intended-to-be-publicly-seen first effort from animator Don Hertzfeldt, in which stick figures lay out some of the pitfalls of trying to find a mate. About as bare bones as an student animation can get, featuring flip book style animation a soundtrack credited by Dan with a guitar and a boom box. Despite technical short comings, Ah, L'Amour holds up very well by being completely relatable. Unfortunately.


Ah, L'Amour [gorillamask] With thanks to Vidiot

What is this thing you humans call "beats"?

robotheart.JPGWe link to a pair of androids looking to broaden their stiff mechanical horizons.

First, a couple of robots try to be more like alive by rocking out as their fleshy masters tend to do in the Robot Rock video from Daft Punk's Human After All album.

And then to somber Flash animation Tin Man, in which an android briefly tries on a human heart for size. [Newgrounds]

We recommend loud speakers for both clips. With thanks to Adrian.

March 21, 2005

The Money and Iodine

iodine.JPGA pair of pretty head-bending short films from evidently one man operation Everyday Okay. We'd describe it as perhaps "gritty ambient"... the music and the film share a grainy sort of "from the tag sale at the end of the world" feel. It reminds us of Nine Inch Nails in their quieter instrumental moments, without the heavy Bowie-isms.

The Money and Iodine [Everyday Okay]
Seen @ tween

Stumble Then Rise On Some Awkward Morning

Awkward Morning.JPGKurtis Hough's mildly eerie monochromatic 6 minute hallucination of the journey from life to death where cg images that aren't quite familiar circle past, allowing the viewer the disjointed feeling of discovering something new yet familiar. Features music by Silver Mt. Zion, an off-shoot of semi-popular drift rock band Godspeed you black emperor! It is a 77mb Quick Time Movie, however the site makes it easy to save it all to disk before viewing it.

Stumble Then Rise On Some Awkward Morning [KH Studios]

Bill Simmons' Sports Guy

sportsguy.JPGTomorrow the second twelve episode series of ESPN Magazine's animated short Sports Guy starts up, creation of former Jimmy Kimmel Live writer and cult-unto-himself sports scribe Bill Simmons. The first 12 episodes are still all available on ESPN Magazine's Page 2 site. The humor and style of the Sports Guy shorts make them worthwhile viewing regardless of your level of enthusiasm for the sports culture they lampoon.

Sports Guy's World [ESPN Magazine called Page 2]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Final Chapter

clones312.JPGThe beginning of the end of the Clone Wars airs tonight on Cartoon Network. Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars cartoon "micro-series" bridges the gaps between the last movie and the upcoming one. Each season consists of about an hour of material diced up into 4 minute episodes. If you're without the Cartoon Network you can catch the most recent episode the following day at the network's website. While there you can also catch up on what happened in the first season

The Clone Wars [Cartoon Network]

March 18, 2005

Hot Shot

Hot Shot432.JPGA stop motion animation in which an elderly gunslinger tries his shaky ol' killn' hands at the show business. Michael Cash's contribution to the "Aztec Shorts", the one minute long solo projects completed after Chicken Run by seven of Aardman's young talents at the Aztec West studios.


Hot Shot
[atom films]

Defective

DEFECTIVE.JPGThe low end of personal robotics. Rani Naamani's smooth cg toon getting it done with only two stooges.

Defective [3dallen] Seen @ Milk and Cookies

Other CG toons on Screenhead :
·The Snowman
·The Alien Video Song
·The Hell Of Etiquette
·AEsops Council of Mice

March 17, 2005

A Peek into Pixar

pixar243.JPGMoriarty from Ain't It Cool News heads out to Pixar, and files a picture-laden report on what it's like in there.
It's ridiculous, is what it's like. Somewhere between a Pottery Barn, Skywalker Ranch and the room where Q hands out stuff to James. Not hard to believe such fun material cranks out of such a place.

THE INCREDIBLES At Pixar [Ain't It Cool News]

Also,

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More at OGI graphics.

Moving Along

Moving Along.JPGThe Planets Moving Along gets a dark and award-winning animated visualization from Patrick Smith and Blend Films.
If that leaves you wanting more, check out other Patrick Smith shorts Handshake, Drink, and Delivery. That's Pat's Delivery, not Till Nowaks Delivery, a whole other ball of wax.

Patrick Smith is also the creator of the Zoloft Dot character, "which he conceived under the influence of alcohol, a known depressant."

Threepeat

ep3.jpgThe Star Wars Episode III Teaser trailer.
Yes, we know you've seen it by now, but we feel obligated to link to it just in case someone hasn't. [starwars]

Of course, we still prefer the goofy one.
Episode III : Lost Hope

March 16, 2005

There is no goon

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Awake Your Consciousness - One of the better animated shorts we've seen for a bit. with thanks to Numlok

The AOL age, The Yellow Umbrella, and STFU

AOLage.JPGThe AOL age. Years from now, archeologists will find this, pause, sniffle, shake their heads, then stop digging and start shoveling the dirt back into the hole.
[gprime]


Also, The Yellow Umbrella, Victor Robert and Rodney Hom's pretty great animated short student film from 2001 [ifilm]


And- The beard does not makes you Jesus.

You gots a reeel purdy mouth

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She reminds us of our mother too, which is what makes the erection so problematic. Well, that and imagining Jimmy Kimmel on top of her, an image akin to those fat French guys stuffed into those tiny bikini briefs they wear to the beach. No, that's not how it should be. Gah.

Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, a SXSW '05 Film Trailer
With thanks to Kirby

March 15, 2005

Delivery

delivery.JPGTill Nowak's smooth stop-motion style /digital blend animated short.
It may blow your fucking mind, but you weren't really using it much anymore, were you.

Delivery

First look at Superman Returns.

SUPERMAN.JPGLooks like the spaceship from the 1978 movie, which would seem to confirm the rumor we've heard that this is a sequel rather than a "re-imagining" of the first one.

Unless this is footage we just don't remember from the first film, or an outtake or something, however it seems legit to us.

Escape is not his plan

baglady.JPGMilk and Cookies has interesting footage of the Red Bull One on One Breakdance Competition.

We think this would have made a neat Nine Inch Nails video at one point.

Finally, The Doors game. We're linking to this strictly because people asked about it, we're frankly a little sick of these "click around for clues" escape games, but as these go, this one is nicely drawn, we guess.

The Fashion of the Christ and Bitey of Brackenwood

fashionofthechrist.JPGYet another trailer for yet another movie that is not.
"Jesus Fabulous" should be an official fashion term, if it isn't already. "That pack on line for the Dave Matthews Band tickets is Jesus Fabulous in their Birks... let us beatith them unto a coma with these bricks."

The Fashion of the Christ [College Downtime]


Also, Bitey of Brackenwood
Aussie Adam Phillips' animated short. [Atom films]

Madge Weinstein cooks

LESBEANS.JPGThis short is painfully funny, and we'd recommend Oscars for these folks, except we have a pretty good idea of where they'd end up.

Les Beans [iMovieTheater74]

Corey Comedy

jobinterview.JPGCorey Comedy is a strange humor site- tiny films with stuff that either works on a level we don't get right away- and it might, seeing as we like it- or it's simply crap, and we're idiots. Either way, we're amused.

March 14, 2005

Geraldine

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The horrors of puberty are the breeding ground for Arthur De Pins' really well done and charming animated short, and we recommend it highly, despite the fact of it being all in some sort of made-up dead pidgin language that we don't speak.

Geraldine [arthurdepins.com]


Check out all of Arthur De Pins' site really, not that we'll have to tell you once you've been.

YoGah

yogah2.JPGElightenment, like ruin, has many paths.
YoGah [Goodiebag TV]

SXSW BitTorrents. Lots of material in these. iPod it, and then wander about looking sort of confused, pointing at things in the comfort of your own home.

Batman : New Times

batmannewtimes.JPGFilmmaker training ground DAVE school presents a Lego interpretation of the Batman animated series with Batman : New Times. Features voice work from Mark Hamil, Adam West, Dick Van Dyke, and Courtney Thorn-Smith

Batman : New Times [daveschool.com] Seen @ cartoon brew


Other fine Lego flicks :
·Batman: Revenge

·Who made who? How a Lego Brick is made.

·Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock

·Star Wars Episode 3 -ish

March 11, 2005

Take it, you yellow ball of sunshine

pikahump.JPGWe don't know why we find this short clip as amusing as we do, but there you go. If you like dogs, you'll think this is cute. If you hate Pikachu, you'll think this is great. If want Pikachu yourself, you'll probably upset the orderly with your jealous wails when he brings you your pill.

A video by Michael Colton starring Punchie and Pikachu [Modern Humorist]
Features music by N.E.R.D, speakers are your friend with this one.

The Lee Evans Trio

leegoesapefarts.JPGProbably best known in America as the fake cripple from There's Something About Mary, Lee goes completely ape farts for a physical shtick here, and it's fun to watch.

The Lee Evans Trio [Mucho Sucko]

Hotdogs give me strength to fight off daddy

WONDER.JPGSicko children's show spoof/ puppet fest/variety show Wonder Shozen kicks off on MTV2 tomorrow. You can watch previews at the MTV2 site. You'll need Windows Media 9 as that seems to be what they're pushing over there, it's the only format offered.

Wonder Shozen

March 10, 2005

Trailer for Todd Solondz's Palindromes

paletwe23.JPG"Thirteen year old Aviva is determined to have a baby, much to the chagrin of her two well-adjusted parents. So Aviva runs away to find a father for her child."
Yup. So, the Todd Solondz- Jerry Bruckheimer "Aliens meets Spinal Tap" project we read a script for on the internet was just a rumor? Silly us.
Todd Solondz - Palindromes [ifilm]

Campus MovieFest / Arcade Fire

AF324.JPGThe winning films from the four recent Campus MovieFest competitions are indexed and watchable online at the Campus MovieFest site. There's a lot here to get though, with many interesting moments. With thanks to Emily
In QuickTime.

Not related, but feels related : the new Arcade Fire video "Rebellion (Lies)" premieres on MTV online today.

Hello, nice people

fuzzyevil.JPGWe've been avoiding the fakes and bootlegs of the Episode III trailer that'll premiere on The OC tonight because they frankly suck out loud- more irritation than titillation. We appreciate the offers, but unless anyone has one that isn't the usual squint-fest that is half Peruvian, we'll just wait the 5 hours.

If you absolutely can't hang on, this Flash version of one of the clearer bootlegs is your best bet, but at this point we might simply suggest a girlfriend.

March 9, 2005

Loveseats

chairstoop.JPGShort clip from Eat PES which offers an explanation as to where those mysterious holes in chairs that just appear sometimes come from.

Roof Sex [Eat PES] With thanks to Numlok

Previous PES on Screenhead : Moth

7:35 de la maana

GOODMORNINGSUNSHINE.JPGNacho Vigalondo's 2003 Oscar-nominated short which we saw for the first time this morning. We love this. Also, if actress Marta Belenguer needs a car or a white baby or a slave or anything, we're right there for her.

7:35 de la maana [735am]

March 8, 2005

Disaster! The Movie

DOOMEDCRUE.JPGDisaster! The Movie is an upcoming stop-motion style Armageddon spoof (Spoof. It's like making fun of William Hung) which features a tie-in with Heavy Metal septagenarians Mtley Cre, who make an appearance in the film. In fact, a special Disaster! The Movie clip with the band appears on their Red White & Cre Tour 2005, and so will promotional clips of the movie... we think the marketing wonks call this "synergy", as in "Hey I just paid ticketmaster $60 for a fucking commercial! Synergy!"

You can watch these claymations at the film's site, and at the band's site.

If the animation style and humor strikes you as familiar, director Roy Wood worked on Celebrity Death Match and some of those claymation goofs on Mad TV.

Also with the Mtley Cre is this older Camp Chaos Flash video for the song "Hell On High Heels"

Back to the Estate

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Honky Sausages
- 12 four minute installments of the odd BBC mini-comedy featuring a low rent family with the occasional impressive afro. We found ourselve doing the Zelig thing with the slang for a little. Then we were beat about the face and neck and we snapped out of it.
[iFilm]

After that, check out The Dildo Song.

March 7, 2005

EZ Spurt

EZSPURT.JPGDogs love the favor of hot white chedder!

Something tells us this clip is the end result of a horrible real life story involving an old gym sock and a new puppy.

EZ Spurt [Goodie Bag]

Vanity Fair: Outtakes

VFAIRO23.JPGA streaming video of the recent Vanity Fair cover shoot in the Bahamas.
Yes, it's little more than an ad for Vanity Fair-- however that little is a gaggle of hot Slavic dames barely wearing the latest in wetwear. Natalia Vodianova, Carmen Kass, Karolina Kurkova, Euguenia Volodina, Hana Soukupova, Marija Vujovic, Natasha Poly, Valentina Zelyaeva, and Inguna Butane, to put a fine point on it.

You're welcome.

Vanity Fair: Outtakes

March 4, 2005

Losers of the Year

TOILETMOVIE.JPGVarious Toilet online luminaries populate a fake documentar on the lives of 8 young men who dare to find their way up Dixie Mountains... the porn star who seeks the record of the Worlds' Largest Sexual Gangbang in recorded history.

This is just the trailer we're linking to here, which we usually only point to when the movie is a blockbuster, but we find it sufficently amusing to stand on its own.

Losers of the Year

More Toilet people expain the various glories of life here :
SHOOTIN' THE SHIT with STANLEY HULKOWSKI

Turkish Star Wars

This is, surprisingly, a Turkish version of Star Wars. We came here to goof on this thing, until we saw noticed just how much one of the characters bears more than a passing resemblance to bad guy henchman General Grievous from the upcoming sequel.

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We always thought he was a Joan Rivers nod up until now. Perhaps George is a fan.

Turkish Star Wars [iFilm]

Here's hoping someone will post Turkish Exorcist and Turkish Superman sometime soon.

March 3, 2005

Escape from Tatooine

Escape from Tatooine.JPGDavid Tomaszewski's crisply edited tongue-in-cheek 2004 Star Wars Fan Film winner which sneaks in references to various genre flicks. Quick and pretty funny.

Escape from Tatooine [atomfilms]

found on the Atom Films reminder page that you've only got a few days left to enter in the 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Awards... though chances are pretty good if you're into that sort of thing you know that already.

March 2, 2005

Cinequest Film Festival

polpot432.JPGSan Jose inde film Festival extravaganza Cinequest 15 kicks off today, Cinequest's web presence Cinequest Online offers downloads of enough trailers and short films to entertain a small planet. To view the content they require a login, however as sign ups go it is entirely painless-- just give an email, they don't go through the password conformation nonsense, and the voluminous content is well worth it. The only other caveat is that content seems to be offered in windows media format only.

If we may be so bold, we recommend Talmage Cooley's Pol Pot's Birthday for a good laugh.

Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit.JPGFirst, get a behind the scenes trailer for the upcomming Wallace and Gromit big screen movie Curse of the Wererabbit at the Dreamworks site.

Then, go on to witness Wallace's severe bending of football rules in the 2002 short Soccamatic on the BBC site.

In QuickTime.

March 1, 2005

A funnier pair of shorts than even those you find wedged on a fat German tourist at Disney World

REALLIFE.JPGReal Life vs. The Internet
Halo characters help you understand the basics.
"I voted for Nader! I hate everyone!"
Real Life vs. The Internet [G Prime] (.wmv)

And, Computer Boy- a homebrewed Matrix spoof. Better than most.
Computer Boy [ifilm] via MoFi (QuickTime)

February 28, 2005

Man to Man to Sbemail

strongbadopera.JPGWe're forced to agree with channel101's assessment of Man to Man- "This is one of those pilots that you can't describe without spoiling, so we'll just say it's entertaining and be done with it."

Man to Man [channel101]

Also, we never link to Homestarrunner-- seems sort of like linking to Google or cheap beer by this stage in its popularity, but we particularly enjoyed Strongbad's Sbemail.

Sbemail [homestarrunner] with thanks to Nick

Chris Landreths Ryan wins Oscar for Best Short Animated Film

RYAN-42365.JPGIn the short film category at the Oscars, Chris Landreths Ryan was the big winner.
Ryan is a biography short of Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, (himself Oscar nominated for Walking), now reduced to panhandling by drug addiction. In Ryan the interviewees are rendered in 3D ruins, a clever, emotionally resonant effect. The National Film Board of Canada has made the film available for viewing.

Ryan [National Film Board of Canada]

It rubs the lotion on its twin

everythingbutlove.JPGLove is everywhere, everywhere you look.
Well, not here. Love is everywhere else.

Rationally we know it's not possible for an email to smell funky, but we could swear the tip-off mail from Everything But Love creator Nikolaus Maackhad a whiff of, well, missing hitchhikers about it.

Everything But Love [archive.org] In QuickTime.

February 25, 2005

"The Fred Durst Sex Tape You Never Wanted"

DURSTNOWHYNO.JPG A leaked sex tape featuring Fred Durst, which is being presented as part of the Paris Hilton Sidekick thing. This title implies there might have been a Fred Durst Sex Tape which we did want... which thinking it over, we guess there was, but Tinkerbell is probably too small a dog.

Why is it always these c-listers we absolutely don't want to see fucking who we see fucking? Can no one get a video camera and some ecstasy near Alison Hannigan?

The Fred Durst Sex Tape You Never Wanted
[Gawker]

I Love Vaginas

dreamstuff.JPG-and who could blame them. Some kids get down to basics.
I Love Vaginas [Channel101] (sorta NSFW, keep the volume reasonable)


Also, a pretty fantastic collection of early 50s Vanguard-style Jazz covers. We'll take any one of these over some photoshopped douchebag giving us the bedroom eyeball any day.

10inRec index [Gokudo]

February 24, 2005

Attention people without cable, meth freaks, and other short film enthusiasts :

guarddog243.JPGBeginning midnight tonight (EST, we assume), for one full day, Salon will host five of this year's Oscar-nominated short animated films. This includes :
·Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog,"
·Ashvin Kumar's "Little Terrorist"
·Nacho Vigalondo's "7:35 in the Morning (7:35 de la Manana)."
·Blur's "Gopher Broke"
·Chris Landreth's "Ryan."

Bite-sized blockbusters (Click it after midnight Thursday, and all day Friday) [Salon]

Hello again

Hello-334.JPGWe linked to an extended trailer yesterday, mistakenly thinking we were side-stepping a Real Player format of the entre short animated film "Hello." Reader Steve now points us to the full film at Strange Attractors, which includes a synopsis for those fresh to it : "Charlie, a man with a portable cassette player for a head, is in love with hi-tech Emerald. At the mercy of his tape collection, Charlie continually bungles his attempts to ask her out. Only Hero Wasabi, a wise old gramophone head, can help him. In a digital world, can analogue find true love."

Jonathon Nix's Hello [Strange Attractors] (Real Format, but worth it) With thanks to Steve

Also available at a slick-looking Japanese site, which we can't read. Could be donkey porn going on in there, we're not looking.


And- The Young Man's Book Of Amusement : "A vast selection of interesting (& some highly ill-advised) experiments & pastimes from the 19th Century."
Originally published in 1854. The class action suit is still mounting.

The Young Man's Book Of Amusement [Lateral Science] seen @ RealityCarnival.Com

Cats and regrets

tmiat.JPGThis Flash cartoon.... upsets the holy crap out of us.
Piruleta [sonika/aedea.net]

This The Redneck Manifesto video, however, chills us right back down again.
We Still Got It (And You Want It) (But You Can't Have It) [Trust Me I'm A Thief]

Speakers are recomended for both.

February 23, 2005

Hello

Hello-334.JPGJonathan Nix's award winning ink /cg animated short features a romance among the audio formats.
We assume the 8 track is off doing horribly degrading porn somewhere with a Betamax.

Hello [studionix]

Bender films

benderfilms.JPGBender films' masthead makes it look like another collection of wacky comedy shorts, but the content is not what you'd expect... it's an interesting collection of small clips that remind us of old blues records-- quick, simple little statements of mood that flick past agreeably. We'd highlight one, but even on a dial up it's quicker to just go investigate them all for yourself.

Bender films

February 22, 2005

PooP

Poop.JPGHere's your big chance to see adoption reality show "Who's Your Daddy?" leftover T.J. Myers in Andrew Cappelletti's Poop.

No it's not scat porn... not this week... it's a short film from this guy. If for some reason you enjoy an attractive woman in a skimpy business suit with a bared arse, then you should watch it, but we can't imagine what your deal is.

PooP [Atom Films]

Also, if you want to ruin Star Wars Episode 3 with spoiler photos, here is your one stop shop.