Unruly vegetables, dumb bureaucrats and mutant man-eating plants

Sometimes bureaucracy gets so out of hand that the sight of an unruly plant is enough to shut down the brains of minor functionaries in search of awards and advancement for being overzealous in a lobotomised kind of way.

Movie Night: The Cathedral

I'm not going to attempt to describe this for fear of spoilers. It's a pastiche of SF horror ideas, and visually very rich. Six and a half minutes from Tomek Baginski.

The new breed of villain

The villains in James Bond and Indiana Jones stories share similar traits: they want power or wealth. Those are rapidly becoming 'old-skool'. The new breed of villain has simplified things. His or her coda is summed up in one easy word: 'destroy'.

Movie Night: Plurality

Here's a short dystopian scifi move. The ultimate network uses DNA as its basis. Everything is controlled. Everyone is known. What could possibly go wrong? 15 minutes from Dennis Liu.

Movie Night: Oceansize

Here's something fairly grim featuring what looks like a cross between Cthulhu and black oil. Have fun. About 8 minutes from Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazières and Fabien Thareau.

Speed bumps, borders, Angolans and Namibians

We could solve all the nationality issues with a couple of speed bumps, especially in front of my house, so I could go out in the mornings and amuse myself by watching the boy racer become one with the birds, and the pilots at the airport, as his turbo-charged bike launches him into the air.

Movie Night: Doll Face

Here's a twist on a twist. Seven minutes of fun with stalking and knives from Colin Campbell.

The benefit of spiders

Taking the spider's point of view, if they are capable of thinking about anything other that eating, breeding and running away in terror from the havoc of feather dusters, and deadly cats and humans, life must be quite tough, and the struggle for survival must be extremely desperate.