12th Doctor Peter Capaldi’s Oscar winning adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphisis

I’ve talked to many people, mostly American and Canadian, who are nervous about Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who. They seem worried because they don’t know who he is (not that they knew who David Tennant or Matt Smith were either). If they know anything at all about Capaldi they know him as this guy or…

Short film looks at what might happen if men and women’s societal roles were reversed.

This film comes with both a NSFW warning and a trigger warning. Until yesterday I had never seen Eleonoré Pourriat’s short film Majorité Opprimée (Oppressed Majority). It takes an unflinching look at what society might look like if roles were reversed. What might life be like if men were expected to act like women and…

Watch Wes Anderson’s Short ‘Castello Cavalcanti’

Wes Anderson’s short film Castello Cavalcanti in advance of his forthcoming feature The Grand Budapest Hotel. According to Film Book the synopsis goes “race car driver Jed Cavalcanti…suffers a mishap during the Motle Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises…in Italy in September 1955.” Castello Cavalcanti stars Jason…

Paul Reubens Stars In a Short Film About Murder and Digital Immortality

What if you could serve as a witness to your own murder? Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman) stars in the Final Moments of Karl Brant, a short murder mystery complicated by virtual immortality. Via Tubefilter: “I’m excited about the idea of copying memories into code,” said director M.F. Wilson. “Imagine for a second that,…

Help Kickstart a Film About A Camp That Makes Straight People Gay

Religion has always been good at capitalizing on guilt. In one of the newer rackets, religion first makes people feel guilty about being born gay, and then sends them to a camp which they claim will help to make them straight again. If they are successful, they send gay people into the world prepared to…

Guillermo del Toro Introduces What Might Be The Scariest YouTube Short Ever

Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) introduces the short film MAMA which he liked enough to create a feature film based on it (coming in January). This may be as suspenseful and scary as it is possible for a 4 minute YouTube video to be. Via Topless Robot

Guillermo del Toro Introduces What Might Be The Scariest YouTube Short Ever

Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) introduces the short film MAMA which he liked enough to create a feature film based on it (coming in January). This may be as suspenseful and scary as it is possible for a 4 minute YouTube video to be. Via Topless Robot

Tax the Rich : An Animated Fairy Tale, narrated by Ed Asner

The introduction written by director Fred Glass: “Tax the rich: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with animation by Mike Konopacki. Written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. An 8 minute video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic…