Short of the Week is now rockin' it like 2009! Visit our new Facebook page and click the "like" button to get our curated short film selections right in your news feed. As an added enticement to follow us, we're adding a new category of post which will be FB-exclusive—SotW Recycled—where once a week we'll dip into our now over 3-year back catalog of reviews and recommend a past favorite you might not have seen.

Short of the Week was just hit by the round of malware attacks affecting many innocent Wordpress blogs over the last couple weeks. Fortunately, Google caught the infection early and prevented the attack from doing more harm.

It's fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow from the online magazine Slate via is DoubleX blog, where contributor Sasha Watson explores the trend of fashion advertising films.

Philips and RSA are at it again for the 6th film in their Parallel Lines series. This one is set to be shot and screened in 3D and released this Fall.