PEZ, the movie
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
Tired 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.
This 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.
Unflinching 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.
Dwarf Stand Tall is an odd and darkly hopeful promotional clip for multimedia collective Hobo Logistics. 
Catch 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.
Guy 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.
Sock : 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.
McLibel 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."
Remember 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.
Wild 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.
Five pleasantly quaint old radio ads for the original trilogy, in MP3 format.
An 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."
Mitchell 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.
A creepy and fantastic little number from director 
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: a short film love story, with a twist of mime. 
The recent trailer for Rize, a film by David LaChapelle.
Toothpaste 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. 
David 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."
Somehow, by which we mean willfully, we missed Bass Bumpers' Crazy Frog clip, a viral-ish sort of a thing for some pretty annoying 
Network/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.
If 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.
Starbucking 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. 
Gus 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.
The Touch by frequent soundtrack contributor 
The trailers for two new Harry Potter movies come around over the weekend, 
This 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.
2003 CG Animated short On the Sunny Side of the Street is German animation house 
A 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.
Watch 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 
With 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 
The MILF Hotline. She's alone. She's Russian. She's plural.
Atom Films is now offering small movies like 
A 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 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. 
Animation site 
A pretty funny short in which hate speech makes an unfortunate pit stop. One of the many fine comedy shorts from Adam and Dave.
Animator Bruce Alcock gives images to an unfortunate voicemail.
A 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 
Polish 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.
Fan made nerd films at their kill-goofy best: highly indestructible Connor MacLeod from Highlander meets extremely tenacious Ash from The Evil Dead. Plasticine ensues. 
The 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. 
A 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 
Watch 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.
We'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 
Ain'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.
Brian 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.
"Seven Redux." Teh funny. 
"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."
Over at 
"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."
Bring 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.
Three new television commercials for Revenge Of The Sith hit the terrestrial airwaves over the weekend. The first, "
From 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." 
We'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.
"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." 
Yuval 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. 
The finalists for the 
A droid having trouble building his ideal companion from scratch attempts to recycle the remains of one found in the garbage.
"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."
Polish artist 
A 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.
Gringo 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.
Geist 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.
The classic 
A stylish and hilarious animated short from the mighty 
"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."
Ah, L'Amour, the 1995 never-intended-to-be-publicly-seen first effort from animator 
We link to a pair of androids looking to broaden their stiff mechanical horizons.
A pair of pretty head-bending short films from evidently one man operation 
Kurtis 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 
Tomorrow 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 
The beginning of the end of the Clone Wars airs tonight on Cartoon Network. 
A 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 
The low end of personal robotics. Rani Naamani's smooth cg toon getting it done with only two stooges. 
Moriarty from Ain't It Cool News heads out to Pixar, and files a picture-laden report on what it's like in there. 
Till Nowak's smooth stop-motion style /digital blend animated short.
Milk and Cookies has 
Yet another trailer for yet another movie that is not. 
This 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.
Elightenment, like ruin, has many paths.
Filmmaker training ground 
We 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.
Probably 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.
Sicko 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 
"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."
The winning films from the four recent 
We've been avoiding the 
Short clip from Eat PES which offers an explanation as to where those mysterious holes in chairs that just appear sometimes come from.
Dogs love the favor of hot white chedder!
A streaming video of the recent Vanity Fair cover shoot in the Bahamas.
Various 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. 
David 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.
San Jose inde film Festival extravaganza 
First, get a behind the scenes trailer for the upcomming 
Real Life vs. The Internet
We'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."
In the 
Love is everywhere, everywhere you look.
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.
-and who could blame them. Some kids get down to basics.
Beginning midnight tonight (EST, we assume), for one full day, Salon will host five of this year's Oscar-nominated short animated films. This includes :
We linked to an extended trailer 
This Flash cartoon.... upsets the holy crap out of us.
Bender 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.
Here's your big chance to see adoption reality show "Who's Your Daddy?" leftover 
