Sundance announces short film slate: Beastie Boys sequels, Tim and Eric doing it, and sexting Julia Stiles

Unlike its in-competition and non-competition slates, it’s much more difficult to pass premature judgment on Sundance’s list of short films—given that most short films come from unknowns and have only a brief, often-nebulous premise—but hey, let’s give it a shot anyway. (The full list is here.)

Actually, we don’t even have to try that hard this year, which is always nice: Several of the highlights feature people you’ve heard of doing things easily summarized. For example, there’s recent Dexter co-star Julia Stiles in Neil LaBute’s “Sexting,” in which a waylaid text message leads a woman to meet her boyfriend’s wife. (And if the text message is anything like the ones on Dexter, it will be in giant letters and center-justified, like a Jeopardy clue.) Then there’s actress Lake Bell going the Orson Welles route, writing, directing, and starring in “Worst Enemy,” about a “female misanthrope” who gets stuck in a full-body girdle, which happened to Orson Welles all the time.