A Conversation With Director Shawn Papazian
October 6 , 2008

As part of the promotion for Warner Bros./Raw Feed’s Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back, the direct-to-video sequel to the successful direct-to-video Rest Stop, I was privy to an exclusive conversation with director Shawn Papazian, a man whose last name I did not dare to try to pronounce. It was a brief affair that ended bitterly--no, wait, it wasn’t… that was someone else, sorry.

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Yo Vinnie, Get The Bat: A Chat With Mike Marino
December 5, 2007

Mike Marino (official website) has paid some dues. He's toured comedy clubs across the country and beyond, laying down his Jersey-centric brand of humor. He's performed in dozens and dozens of skits on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Next year, he'll be seen in a mob movie, Pizza With Bullets, featuring Vincent Pastore (Sopranos, GoodFellas), Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather) and others. Ask him, and he'll tell you things are looking up for "New Jersey's Bad Boy of Comedy."

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Staying Inside The Lines With Ian Sokoliwski
by Eric San Juan
July 10, 2007

Few are the major characters that artist Ian Sokoliwski has not had his hands on.

Figuratively speaking, of course. 

During his time with Digital Chameleon, he worked with some of the biggest characters in comics, including just about every major character at Marvel and DC. He is a credited colorist (or as he would say, colourist) on Dark Horse Comics' stellar Conan the Barbarian reprints. He has worked on an assortment of independent books, including Shadowflame, Kolchak: the Frankenstein Agenda, Grimm Fairy Tales, and Ripperman: Fair Warning, is a credited inker on the forthcoming Lotus by Zeroes2Heroes, and is the top-to-bottom creator - writing, art, inks, colors - of creator-owned comics BattleWitch and Selig: The Second Coming. He also colors the commissioned artwork of legends like Bob Layton and Paul Smith and creates and sells his own vivid, imaginative art. But don't take our word for it, just look at his homepage to see what he brings to the artistic table.

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Interview With Eddie Schmidt
by Cary Christopher
January 26 , 2007

Less than a week ago, I had the good fortune to get hold of a screener for the DVD This Film Is Not Yet Rated.  It’s a documentary by Director Kirby Dick and Producer Eddie Schmidt that looks at the extremely secretive process of getting a film rated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).  Call me ignorant (I’d appreciate you using the forums instead of yelling at me on the street), but I was amazed and disturbed by just how shadowy the process was.  It hit me very hard as a writer that this was a process that actually manipulates freedom of speech and expression through economic pressure.  Like the filmmakers themselves, I walked away outraged that no one was paying attention to this. 

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Talks To Artie Lange
by Larry Phillips
September 14, 2006

The one move that has really set Lange’s star ablaze brighter than ever before has been his permanent place as a member of The Howard Stern Show. Once nationally syndicated in radio markets all over the US, The Howard Stern Show is now on Sirius Satellite Radio broadcasting to the entirety of the United States and Canada.

Lange is currently out promoting his upcoming film Artie Lange’s Beer League, in which he stars, co-wrote and produced.

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Miss Conduct Rolls Hard:
The Interview
by Karen Martwick & Chris Hughes
June 21, 2006

was fortunate to have the opportunity to talk with Miss Conduct about the ins and outs, and ups and downs of modern roller derby. Don’t let her hardcore image fool you: Miss Conduct is an articulate, intelligent and expressive advocate of the sport, a gifted athlete and an individual with many and varied interested outside of the rink too. But don’t take our word for it; see for youself...

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Talks To Dave Foley
by Eric San Juan
May 30, 2006

Honed on stage and brought to life through the inventive antics of a comedy troupe who refused to see sketch comedy as formula, The Kids In The Hall hit TV sets in 1988 and quickly built a robust following enamored with their quirky, often surreal sense of humor. The five core Kids more often than not played virtually every role on screen, both male and female, while tackling characters and subjects seemingly spit out of a blender of the bizarre. The result was a show that ran until 1994, and which still boasts legions of devoted fans.

With season 4 of The Kids In The Hall hitting stores today, managed to catch up with Dave Foley, one of the most recognizable Kids who later went on to continued comedy fame in the central role of the hit sitcom NewsRadio.

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Talks Parrots
by Eric San Juan
January 12, 2006

In Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, mankind’s feathered friends decide they no longer want to be friends, turning their avian wrath on anything with two arms and two legs. What follows is an increasingly apocalyptic scenario that leaves a small coastal town in ruin and a family paralyzed with fear and torment.

That’s not what happens in Judy Irving’s The Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill. In Irving’s charming nature documentary, the birds, free though they may be, are our friends. More specifically, they are Mark Bittner’s friends, wild parrots with personalities as varied as yours and mine, and lives with just as many ups and downs.

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Inside The Mind Of Dante Tomaselli
by Eric San Juan
November 3, 2005

When attended the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in September, we knew we'd be seeing some great names of the genre. What we didn't expect was to discover a compelling new (to us) director right in our backyard. Dante Tomaselli, director of two low-budget horror films, Desecration and Horror, showed off footage from his soon-to-be-released by Anchor Bay film Satan's Playground -- and we were instant fans.

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INTERVIEW: Lou Taylor Pucci
by Larry Phillips

Welcome to the very first interview, and boy do we start off with a doozey!  It is only appropriate that a website that is about to hit it big in 2005 has a chat with an actor who is about to hit it HUGE this year as well.  DIMP was thrilled to chat with Lou Taylor Pucci who is having, and will have, a year that very few actors will ever get to experience.

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