It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of short films and of aspiring talent trying to get eyeballs on their work. That’s the very reason that we shine a bright spotlight on a short film every day of the work week, and it’s the same reason that we’re partnering with Playboy, Bombay Sapphire Gin and Talent House for a short film contest that will see one winner taken to Sundance 2012, handed a nice chunk of change, and featured at a private event at the festival. So how do you enter this glorious contest? It’s incredibly, ridiculously simple:

What is Movie News After Dark? This is a question that I am almost never asked, but I will answer it for you anyway. Movie News After Dark is FSR’s newest late-night secretion, a column dedicated to all of the news stories that slip past our daytime editorial staff and make it into my curiously chubby RSS ‘flagged’ box. It will (but is not guaranteed to) include relevant movie news, links to insightful commentary and other film-related shenanigans. I may also throw in a link to something TV-related here or there. It will also serve as my place of record for being both charming and sharp-witted, but most likely I will be neither of the two. I write this shit late at night, what do you expect?

This week on Caption This, we are exposing you to Fox’s comedy Miss March: Eugene (Zach Cregger) wakes up after years in coma and embarks on a road trip with his buddy Tucker (Trevor Moore) to find Eugene’s ex-girlfriend who became a Playboy centerfold.

The sporadically funny movie from Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore of ‘The Whitest Kids U’ Know’ proves the difficulty of transitioning from the world of sketch comedy to narrative filmmaking.

Kevin Carr talks breasts, diarrhea, Zach Cregger’s butt and Duck Tales inspirations with Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore of Miss March.

If there is anyone who needs to do a little bit of setting the record straight, it is Brett Ratner. Though, I would surmise that the Rat isn’t really looking to get that spotlight off of himself, as he has been one of the most talked about non-working directors of 2008.

A little birdie dropped this little video in my inbox earlier this afternoon, and as a man I feel it necessary to pass it along.

A movie about a Playboy bunny: good. A PG-13 rating: bad. Anna Faris as said Playboy bunny: good. Overblown collagen lip injections: bad. Cameos by the Girls Next Door: good. An attempt at acting by Hugh Hefner: bad.

Anna Faris is hot. And she’s in a bikini top and hot pants through much of The House Bunny. I’ll drink to that!

Neil is grumpy this week, and Kevin takes full advantage of his weakness for the show.

Despite his off-camera problems in the mid-1990s, Robert Downey Jr. has always been a truly great American actor. So why shouldn’t he move on to playing an American icon, maybe Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, perhaps?