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Essential viewing this month
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 | | July summer sizzlers
A trip to the gynaecologist for Selma Blair brings whole new meaning to the term 'empty inside'
May's blossoming shorts
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Previous picks
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 | | Some eggstra-special Easter treats
A rabbit brings new meaning to the term 'bunny boiler', while Aardman Animation provide something very different from their usual fare
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 | | Sun, sand and shorts
We travel to the Sundance festival, where a number of films have been made available to view online
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 | | Cyber cinema's Christmas special
All those environmentally-unfriendly Christmas activities are melting the North Pole and sending Santa into abject misery
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 | | December's winter warmers
An uncomfortable family reunion and a nightmare amongst the mannequins should send a seasonal chill up your spine
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 | | October's creepiest crawlies
What's scarier: girlfriends after your life-blood or a lifetime 'commitment'? And beware Draino-loving dolls and alien slugs with the munchies
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 | | Six for September
Does Bill Murray fall asleep after a glass of warm milk? And do armed robbers have affairs? Plus, the show which is Friends for the MySpace generation
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 | | August's hot and sweaty moments
Willem Dafoe just can't stop the music, while Pib and Pog find something highly unsavoury in Daddy's Study
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 | | June's not-so-summery sizzlers
Christopher Guest's noirish 80s debut, Will Ferrell's moody toddler landlord and helping Paris Hilton with her sartorial decisions (in prison, naturally)
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 | | Some fruity May treats
Arty food porn, teenage spin the bottle games and a black comedy about a man who keeps finding his mum in the Readers' Wives
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 | | April's stunners
Hotels with unlimited rooms, animated bunnies with a dark twist and some seaside hanky panky round out this month's web film favourites
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 | | Fresh shoots for March
Celebrate the arrival of spring with a bunch of zingy shorts on Britney's makeover, Cocoon-style rejuvenation and going to hell in a trailer
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 | | Webby Valentine's Day
Get your hunk of online lurve with the best in small-screen brief encounters.
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 | | January's men of the month
Tattoos, toilets, teenage angst and thongs: this month's pick brings the male psyche into focus.
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 | | December's Christmas capers
A mobster threatens to top Santa, rosy-cheeked kids sing a satirical festive ode to the year and Captain Capitalism takes on evil Karl Marx Claus.
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 | | November's festival favourites
Documentaries, dramas, animations: all manner of award-winners in this months roundup of the best short films on the web
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 | | October's party political films
A new Westminster spin machine, a clown for congress, and US foreign policy couched in Stalinist graphics in this month's pick of short films on the web.
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 | | September's classy shorts
Pushy parents, academia by advertising and a surreal slice of tender drama, cherrypicked to send you back to school with a spring in your step.
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 | | Summer's weird and wonderful web shorts
Escape from the heatwave by chewing on a Czech surrealist's happy human meal, shopping for unorthodox household appliances and having a kandy-kolored brain-bath in poetry.
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 | | June's hottest Brit shorts
Diamond geezers, angry kids, going to the dogs and - no escaping it - Rooney and the World Cup in our patriotic picks for June.
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 | | May's mighty footie flicks
From Billy Elliot in boots to Alan Hansen's eyebrow pinball via Premier League Pong, we have the best shorts with which to warm up for the kick-off.
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 | | Springtime goodies
Homicidal bunnies, chicktionary, matzah-munching rabbis and other egg-cellent ways to keep yourself occupied over and beyond the Easter holidays.
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 | | March magic
This month: two Oscar shorts, a man who thinks he's a horse, a happy meal with a biblical makeover and a good deal of undressing ...
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 | | February's Valentine visions
Love, love, love ... from office flirtations, creepy crushes to one man's loyal devotion to a concert pianist, the mood is heart-shaped this month and it's on a computer screen near you.
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 | | January's winter wonders
Culture shocks, nerdy calamity and some sticky moments for your viewing pleasure on those dark winter days.
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 | | Christmas crackers
Have yourself a merry little Xmas with the game that'll give you knuckles to crack Brazil nuts on to other perfectly crass antidotes to the season of sweetness and light.
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 | | Have an explosive November
This month's selection is charged with twists from the uncomfortable to the bittersweet, but the Odyssey in 15 seconds is a lovable flash of nonsense amid the more explosive cyber picks.
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 | | Oodles for October
Sex, from the legal to the fruity variety, features in our pick of the web flicks, along with an un-Tardised David Tennant.
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 | | Fall for these season-end sparklers
Hungover husbands and upset wives, yet more Martin Freeman and how to aid AI research while cyber-slacking in the last of our summer cyber selections.
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 | | Disaster response
Haris Uzeirbegovic's quick-draw reaction to the attacks on London takes centre stage in our look at the month's best short films on the web.
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 | | June's summer sizzlers
Oops Britney's animated antics have us in stitches, plus we try to keep a pet student alive and indulge in a spot of pre-prandial perversion, in this month's web picks.
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 | | May's money shots
Survive the election with our selection of cyber gems, featuring a sailboat-sinking psycho, a bizarre bird bloodbath and, mercifully, fanatics of the Force.
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 | | April bloomers
We discover a hapless and lovable Martin Freeman before he was famous, disaster-prone Yoda before he was a Jedi and the unsung Blackstronauts, in this month's cyber selection.
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 | | March's spring selection
This month Venice Beach gets the Blair Witch treatment, we discover Michael Jackson's lost interview and fall for 'shpants' while dodging egg-firing chickens.
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 | | February's fluffy favourites
We get a little hot under the collar in time for Valentine's with Kimura Takashi's sexed-up bug citizens and spend a few idle minutes with Valentine-oroids.
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 | | January's woolly warmers
From the sublime Sheep Thief - a painterly short from Asif Kapadia set in Rajasthan - to the barely believable, start the year on the right note.
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The best of 2004
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 | | December's Christmas treats
From blind dates with elves to a snowman's alien abduction and from Dickens with a modern twist to the plain twisted, we pick the best of the net's festive films.
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 | | Election fever
So Bush won - but you can still laugh at him here. Plus, reality TV dating with Satan, and how to break all 10 commandments before breakfast. If it all gets too much, that is.
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 | | July's cool pics
As summer hots up, chill with some spinetingling shorts: industrial creeps, Homebase horror and tot-in-tutu terror.
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 | | It's June - time for shorts
James Gandolfini wakes up drunk, Dubya inspects his men and a net nerd gives his guide to lovin' on the web.
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 | | Darling buds of May
Marionette magic, teen dreams, sink estate angst, informercial insanity and squirrel squashing to get you merry in May.
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 | | Easter treats
Yes, it's Easter, and that means eerie shorts featuring the good shepherd. But it's also spring, when a young webmoviegoer's thoughts lightly turn ...
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 | | March demos
Kate Stables' short film showcase brings spring gladness: a Paul Bettany mini-classic, and a DIY Bruce Lee video montage.
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 | | Heartwarming shorts for February
A boy with a snow-globe heart, classic Hollywood meets origami, girl-on-girl good times and, erm, feeding time at the croc enclosure.
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 | | New year - higher resolution
January's top picks; from the Sundance online festival, a new high definition service from Atom Films, and Westworld for the Doom generation.
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The best of 2003
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