Water Week
by Cary Christopher
August 6, 2007

It's big. It's blue (or green if you're in the UK). It's wet. It's inspired wonder and curiosity in mankind ever since we've encountered it. It's got nothing to do with Paris, Britney or Lohan, even though admittedly all those clues do point to any one of the three.

It's the ocean people! Get with the program!

Ever since we first put our feet in it and felt the pull of the undertow, we've speculated on what's out there. We've marvelled at its power, its beauty and its menace. Nowhere has that wonder and speculation taken shape more prominently than in the movies. Be it classics like Moby Dick and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or more modern fare like Into The Blue and White Squall, audiences and movie lovers the world over have seen their wildest dreams and worst nightmares about the ocean played out on the big screen.

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Crushes Evil: Welcome To Superhero Week!
April 30 , 2007

The superhero. Bright. Colorful. Powerful. And most of all, noble.

More than any other creation of the 20th Century, the superhero puts the myths and legends of ancient days in a modern context, showing us sights that would do the storytellers of ancient Greece proud; gods clashing in the skies to the wonder and awe of mere mortals. Men and women who fight, and die, in an endless struggle against evil; beings more powerful than we can fathom deciding our fate in the alleyways and galaxies of the imagination. The superhero speaks to something inside us; an eternal void begging to be filled; an intangible need for things larger than ourselves. Their titanic adventures and mythic tales are a modern reflection of the ancient morality plays so important to human civilization. More than anything else, this is what draws us to the superhero.

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DIMPmas 2006
December 2006

You know, when the editorial staff here at first announced a theme week, everyone snapped up the titles like Black Christmas and Christmas Evil. Why? Well, because that’s in our comfort zone, that’s why. We are a jaded, cynical bunch here. No one trolls through DIMP looking for a review of Miracle on 34th Street. They come here looking for the dark side of Christmas.

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Doctor Who Week
November 2006

Here at , we love groovy British TV shows made in the 1960s. From The Thunderbirds to Secret Agent to The Avengers to The Prisoner, we just can’t get enough, and when it comes to quirky UK psychedelia, no show is quirkier or more mind-bending than Doctor Who. The long running series, ostensibly intended for children but enjoyed by people of all ages, features an ever changing cast of supporting characters flinging themselves through time and space inside a blue police phone booth (the TARDIS) piloted by a grandfatherly philosopher/scientist known only as the Doctor. As a “Time Lord,” the Doctor is charged with setting wrong to right in the universe, and in the process, faces off against a wide range of imaginative foes, including sea monsters, abominable snow men, robots, mutants, and the omnipresent Daleks – high tech trash cans on wheels.

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' Universal Horror Week
October 2006

Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. There are no more iconic characters in the history of horror on film than Universal's stable of monsters. The simple mention of any of these names immediately brings to mind a recognizable image. Dracula with his cape and high collar; Frankenstein with bolts in his neck and huge, lumbering frame; The Mummy with bandaged head and creepy, piercing eyes. the list goes on. These characters are such a vital thread in our cultural fabric that it's almost impossible to imagine a world without them.

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Goes Back to School! 2005
September 2006

Tits. Teachers. Tunes. Goofing off and cutting school and getting laid and making friends and on and on and on and on.

There’s a reason why films about high school – entering it, leaving it, surviving it – are a genre of their own, and a genre that just won’t die. It’s because we’ve all been through it. School, that is. We can relate. It’s a time when we start down the road towards becoming the adults we’ll be, when some of our deepest friendships are formed, and when any day could become a memory to last a lifetime.

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Goes On Vacation
July 2006

Is there any time more dreadful than the summer, with its heat and sun and tans and people demanding that you go outdoors and get into water and stuff? I’m shuddering with complex feelings of self-loathing and fear just thinking about it as I type this. I mean, beaches. Beaches filled with people. People from New York. People from New York with too-tight shorts and gold chains tangled in their chest hair. Talking. Loudly. On cell phones. While swimming in the ocean.

Someone hold me.

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Goes To War!
June - July 2006

War is hell. That is, except when presented on the silver screen, where war can be almost anything – dramatic, moving, artistic, harrowing, entertaining, enlightening, and just about any other “ing” you can think of. Perhaps no other genre in film has a longer, richer and more varied history than the war film. From the earliest days of cinema and at every stage of its development, the war film has been a mainstay, always popular, and often pushing the envelope of greatness.

With the skies over North America set to light up next week with colorful and bombastic explosions, we here at thought there could be no better time to pull our camo from the closet and charge into battle.

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Celebrates Blockbusters! 2005
May 2006

Who doesn't love a good blockbuster? Hell, who doesn't love a bad blockbuster? Here at , we're utter fiends for all things big, loud, gaudy and tasteless. Sure, we love our auteurs and indies, but the names Stephen Spielberg, James Cameron, George Lucas and Michael Bay are just as hailed around here. Blockbusters, most especially that special breed of them, the Summer Blockbuster, are a big, big deal. They are also big, big fun. Sometimes big dumb fun, sometimes big smart fun, but always BIG. That's why we spent a week celebrating the glorious fun of the summer blockbuster. Grab your Star Wars action figures and join us for this wild ride.

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Other Cinema Week!
January 2006

The Other Cinema Digital label provides an alternative platform for the distribution of extraordinary film works. We celebrate peculiar visions and offbeat sensibilities, drawn from the contemporary underground as well as the archives. Be it auteur, exploitation, or industrial, OCD delivers a decidedly different audio-visual experience -- ingenious, comic, critical... dangerous.

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A Crazed Christmas: 2005 At
December 2005

Ho, ho, freakin' ho. You've never seen Christmas done like this before - and that's a promise. Santa doesn't get any more twisted than the St. Nicks we put a spotlight on. Holiday films don't get any more undeniably bizarre. And trips down memory lane with joyful classics by Rankin & Bass don't get any more bitter, cynical and jaded. Santa Claus conquering Martians and Spanish-speaking, child molesting Kris Kringles? That can only mean one thing. It's Christmas at .

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Sex, Saws & Stumps: DIMP's Horror Marathon 2005
October 2005

When comes the month of October, cast open are the doors of darkness, and flowing go the rivers of blood. Gore, blood, and gore! wades through quivering piles of corpses and stagnant pools of fetid rot, and for what? To bring you the most offbeat series of horror features this side of the grave. From masters of the craft like Clive Barker to rising stars like Dante Tomaselli, from horror for kids to horror sequels, from blood-soaked conventions through the eyes of a novice to through the eyes of an ardent fan, in this special series from 2005 brings you to hell and back.

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