Special skill set

This pseudo-parody of Rain Man gets a 9 for Concept and a 6 for Execution. No wonder so many people pronounce it ASS-berger’s syndrome:

Sexual Genius comes from Philadelphia’s Minor Prophets, a group of filmmaking friends who have an 8 PAGE HISTORY of themselves (check it out at their website).

Work yourself to death

The corporate assassin is usually figured to be someone like Gordon Gecko - all ambition and no conscience. Well, this corporate assassin has no conscience either, but he’s driven by something other than ambition:

The Corporate Assassin is hired to clean the filth that is content with taking advantage of their surroundings. Such as stealing from [...]

Tragic cup of joe

The story of a man and his coffee mug - it works as a buddy comedy, a love story, and a tragedy. Tell your coffee mug how much you love it when you get home tonight - after all, without that little round guy, how could you drink coffee?

Coffee Mug is from Berkeley-based Taco [...]

Old maid

When does a woman who lives alone go from young and adventurous to old and pitiable? This is the question at the center of Door Number Two, which follows a young woman, just out of college, as she moves into a new apartment and meets the neighbors. Phyllis Somerville gives an excellent performance in the [...]

Taking the midnight tran

There will be two responses to this short: if you dig trannies, you won’t understand what the big deal is; if you don’t dig trannies, you’ll find it pretty funny. In brief, a Notting Hill man finds that his new object of desire has, well, more to offer than he originally thought.

My Name is [...]

Communication problem

Bluetooth headsets have probably reduced car and walking accidents, but they’ve also led to quite a bit of confusion, a decline in general aesthetics, and apparently, some bad dates:

Conversation director and producer Julie Stevens recently released a documentary, Life After Tomorrow, about her experiences as a child star in the musical Annie. Read all [...]

Creative ways to avoid corporal punishment

Not to be confused with the Clint Eastwood/John Malkovich Presidential assassination potboiler In the Line of Fire, Line of Fire spins a sad yarn about mental and physical abuse at a parochial school. This movie will make you happy you didn’t go to Catholic school, and if you did, it will make you happy that [...]

Same old (great) tune

From Merriam-Webster:
trope: 1b: a common or overused theme or device
Used in a sentence: The peppy, fresh-faced youth who encourages the jaded but brilliant master to come out of retirement in the interest of a noble cause is a trope of popular cinema, seen in movies from Happy Gilmore to Star Wars.
The above evidence acknowledged, [...]

Shrinking family

Before HBO’s Big Love, polygamy didn’t receive a lot of entertainment attention. That’s too bad: is there an outsider lifestyle more inherently melodramatic and fascinating than plural marriage? Director John Whitney’s film A Family Matter provides a glimpse of a wife on the way out of a polygamous setup, and the person who begs her [...]

Science fiction project

The little girl in The Spider Experiment has a red-cheeked crush on a budding biology whiz, so she fabricates a science project about spider vomit to grab the brainy boy’s attention. I can’t speak for anyone else, but if a girl in 4th grade studied spider vomit to impress me, I would have immediately declared [...]