

Thor celebrates Christmas in Asgard, Santa adds Walter PPK to the bad boy list and the creators take a skewed look at The Gift of the Magi. Plus who needs Rudolph when Santa has Comet?





Thor celebrates Christmas in Asgard, Santa adds Walter PPK to the bad boy list and the creators take a skewed look at The Gift of the Magi. Plus who needs Rudolph when Santa has Comet?
2009-12-06
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0.0A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.
4.3Farrah, new to LA, goes on the mobile styling app Get Glam, to find new clients. When she arrives at an appointment, she finds a house of girls pre-gaming for a party and maybe a new crew of friends.
6.2An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit plastic toy blocks.
0.0PJ spends a sleepless night getting roped into a sniper revenge plot.
7.0Edward Everett Horton is scheduled to go on a date with Duane Thompson. She, being only 25, is a schoolgirl at Aileen Manning's girl's school. Horton becomes trapped in the school, trying to avoid headmistress and cops.
0.0An egocentric professional mourner reaps the consequences of his ambition.
7.3After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.
0.0Mindblowing. Literally. Acclaimed Italian photographer Alessandro Bavari turns to filmmaking with this short, surreal tour in and around the cranial cavity.
10.0In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.
0.0When her relationship sours, Claire turns to the fictional world of her romance novels to ease the pain. But as the lines between fiction and reality blur, she is swept away in an adventure on the high seas.
5.0Perihelion is a sort of animated tone poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end.
5.0The Dean and Board of Flunk Well College are arguing with its football coach, Bergen, about the team's star player, Charlie McCarthy, who is the only reason the team is a winning one, but who isn't doing well academically and could be pulled from the team if his grades and behavior don't improve. In other words, Charlie is a dummy in more ways than one. Beyond other problems Coach Bergen has with Charlie concerning the coach's girlfriend Joan, Coach Bergen has to get Charlie prepared to pass an exam administered by the Dean. Instead of cheating like he usually does, Charlie has his own way of dealing with the exam.
10.0Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
6.0Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.