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 AC/DC - A Classic Album Under Review: Back In Black
by Cary Christopher
Here’s the question. At what point do you find yourself liking an album so
much that you want to spend two hours of your life watching a documentary of
people talking about that album?
More specifically, at what point do you find yourself liking an album so much
that you want to spend two hours of your life watching a documentary of people
talking about that album, only one of which was even remotely connected with
its production?
Ask yourself this question before picking up AC/DC A Classic Album
Under Review: Back in Black. After you’ve asked yourself that question,
if you still decide to pick it up, stop yourself and ask the question again.
After you’ve done that three times, if the answer is still yes, then you
deserve your fate.
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 Blue Collar Comedy Tour - One For The Road
by Cary Christopher
Here’s the deal. I’m southern and I’m very proud of where I came from. I don’t have a rebel flag anywhere in my house. I don’t listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd religiously (although I do own all the albums… they’re good… you should own them too). I don’t have anyone in my family tree who ever owned a slave.
I’m telling you all of this so you’ll understand why I fucking HATE Jeff Foxworthy and more than that, I would like to kick Larry The Cable Guy in the nuts repeatedly… for days… with only short breaks to sleep and regain my strength so that I may resume the kicking.
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 Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Collectors Edition
by Cary Christopher
Why is it that I cannot stay awake to the end of this movie?
Seriously, that’s a question I’ve asked myself all seven times I’ve seen this film. That’s right, I even dozed off during the theatrical run in 1992. It happened right about the point that Hopkins and company board the train to Transylvania. My brother shook me awake to tell me the credits were rolling.
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 The Bugaloos - The Complete Series
by Cary Christopher
The brain is a marvelous, wonderful thing. Essentially, it works as a
super-efficient filter. It takes in stimuli from thousands of sources every
second, sorts them, puts the important ones where you can deal with them and
somehow manages to deal with the rest behind the scenes in such a way that they
don’t overwhelm you. If it didn’t do that, we would all be curled up in fetal
positions, gibbering like idiots with drool puddled around our heads.
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 The Call of Cthulhu: The Celebrated Story by H.P. Lovecraft
by Cary Christopher
“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu
waits dreaming.”
If you know where that line comes from and what it means, you should
be very, very excited about this film.
For those of you who don’t know, The Call of Cthulhu is
a masterful story of cosmic horror originally written by H.P. Lovecraft
in August/September of 1926. Lovecraft wrote a ton of short stories,
many of which made their way into the pulp magazine Weird Tales. It
was that magazine that finally published the story in their February
1928 edition, and its influence on the horror genre cannot be denied.
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 Charro
by Cary Christopher
Much has been said about Elvis Presley’s
film career and how notoriously spotty it is.
Much of that has
to do with Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker who famously steered
Elvis away from serious roles and wanted to continue to present
the rock and roll icon in screwball comedies and light-hearted fare.
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 College Football’s Greatest Games: Notre Dame Fighting Irish Collector's Edition
by Cary Christopher
Ahhh… college football. How I love it. Having gone to a major university in the
heart of football country, I truly have a warm place in my heart for college
football. Hearing ESPN’s Game Day theme at the end of August brings a tear to my
eye and makes me all warm inside. Every fall brings renewed hope that this could
be the year my team makes it to the National Championship.
Then, usually around mid-October, I resign myself to the fact that they ’ll
be lucky to make it to a bowl game.
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 The
Creature From The Black Lagoon - The Legacy Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 27, 2006
On an expedition in the Amazon, scientists uncover
what appear to be the remains of a missing link between fish
and man. Soon a new expedition is launched in an effort to
find out if a living specimen can be located and captured,
but the expedition encounters more than it bargained for.
Entering a habitat known as The Black Lagoon, where legend
has it no one has successfully returned from, the scientists
find what they are looking for but the creature has plans
of its own, involving a beautiful young female scientist.
Julie Adams and Richard Carlson star in this Universal classic.
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 Danger Mouse – The Final Seasons
by Cary Christopher
The following conversation actually took place. I was at work. I called
home to see how my wife, Karen, was doing.
Karen: Hey, you got a package today
from DIMP. Do you want me to open it and see what it is?
Cary: Sure.
Karen: It’s Danger Mouse – The
Final Seasons.
Cary: Fuck.
You see, Danger Mouse was something I
completely missed. I remember sometime back in high school a friend tried to
show me a couple of episodes on video tape but I just wasn’t into it. It was
1986 and I was much more concerned with getting laid.
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 The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats
by Cary Christopher
Dick Cavett’s interview style is something of a divisive subject among those who
discuss, or are mildly interested, in these sorts of things. Basically, it comes
down to two camps: The first believes that he is a genius because, by letting
his subjects talk, he ultimately gets them to reveal more of themselves in a
more natural and interesting way than most interviewers. The second believes
he’s horrible because he doesn’t rein in his interview subjects and lets them
ramble on and on with mixed results.
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 Demetri Martin - Person
by Cary Christopher
Demetri Martin is a very funny guy. The thing about him is, he's not funny in that annoying Jerry Seinfeld 'Ever-wonder-what-happens-to-the-other-sock?' way. He's also not funny in the Ron White 'I'm-sarcastic-and-much-cooler-than-you are' way either. He doesn't use his insecurities as comedic fodder and he also doesn't work blue. Occasionally he'll let an F-bomb fly but his restraint makes the use of it all the more humorous.
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 Donnie Brasco - Extended Cut
by Cary Christopher
Johnny Depp is my favorite actor, hands down. This is not something that happened right away. I didn’t switch on 21 Jump Street and marvel at his range. No, I had pretty much taken in Johnny Depp movies like popcorn and just thought of him the way most folks think of Matt Damon. He was good but not brilliant.
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 Double Indemnity (Special Edition)
by Cary Christopher
What can I possibly write about Double Indemnity that hasn’t
been written already? For the two of you who read this and haven’t seen the
film, it is far and away the best example of film noir ever shot, and arguably
one of the greatest films ever made. Double Indemnity combined
a taut, dark story with outstanding acting and direction in a truly original
way.
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 Dracula - The Legacy Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 23, 2006
Inspired by the novel by
Bram Stoker, this is the story of Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi),
a 500-year-old vampire who moves from his castle in Transylvania
to England in search of better hunting grounds. With the help
of Renfield (Dwight Frye), he acquires a new residence near
a mental asylum and begins preying on local women. Only Professor
Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) knows how to stop the vampire
and he must convince his comrades to take up the cause before
Dracula can make the lovely Mina (Helen Chandler) his next
bride. Directed by Tod Browning and shot by Karl Freund, this
movie established Bela Lugosi as a household name and is considered
a true horror classic.
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 Drawn Together - Season Two Uncensored
by Cary Christopher
Unlike many of the folks who post in our forums,
I'm not a fan of reality shows. I've never gotten into them except for
a few very notable exceptions. In fact, I've only ever followed three: Joe Millionaire, Joe Millionaire
2 and Rock of Love with Bret Michaels.
In looking at those choices closely, the latest trend data on
my viewing habits would indicate that I love to watch shows about gold
digging bitches and clueless fuckheads. I'm not going to deny it. When
it comes to reality shows, if it's not funny I don't care to watch it.
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 Drive In Double: Assassination in Rome / Espionage in Tangiers
by Cary Christopher
Ah… the Drive-In Double Feature. We’ve
gone over this territory many times before here at DIMP, so
I won’t
go back into my love of that particular American institution.
However, I will say that the last time we talked about it, I
was not having a particularly good time watching the DVD I was
reviewing. Dark
Sky Films has released multiple DVDs now that feature the "Drive-In
Double Feature" format, meaning that the DVD starts up with some
vintage ads for the concession stand and some previews of coming
attractions and then the first movie starts. Then there's an intermission
and the second feature starts. It
is exactly what you would expect to see if you were actually
sitting in your car at the drive-in sometime between 1955 and
1975. .
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 The Faculty
by Cary Christopher
The following is a true story and I can name witnesses. The year was 1985. I
was starting my senior year of high school in a town I’d lived in just under
eight months. I had two friends and they had both graduated the year before.
In short, I was lost.
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 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Criterion Collection
by Cary Christopher
I know when most of you think “summer/vacation movie” you think of family
classics like National
Lampoon’s Vacation or Meatballs. I’m happy for you. You
make up the foundation of our society. Feel free to enjoy living your lives
safely and securely in your house/apartment, curling up with your cat and/or
small pet rodent, while remembering your lost innocence.
Me, I’m the jaded, cynical type. I went to camp once a long time ago. I’ve
seen things since that would make my former counselors cringe. That’s why
there’s only one summer vacation movie for me: Terry Gilliam’s Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas.
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 Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 24, 2006
Based on the book by Mary Shelley and the play
adaptation by Peggy Webling, James Whale's film tells the
story of Henry Frankenstein, a scientist obsessed with finding
the key to creating life. He assembles a body from parts of
corpses and reanimates it using electricity. Repulsed by his
creation, he rejects the monster. It roams the countryside,
creating a wave of terror. Released the same year as Tod Browning's Dracula, Frankenstein made Boris
Karloff a star and became the launching pad for a number of
sequels.
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 Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster
by Cary Christopher
If there is anything in this world which I mourn the death of more
than that of the drive-in movie, I'm hard pressed to think of what it is. Yes, I know that dates me pretty well, but
seriously, straight to DVD productions just don't have the same cheap flair that
some of the worst of the drive-in movies had. As late as the early 1980's, the town I grew up in still had a two screen
drive-in theater that committed one screen to showing 1940's and 1950's cheapo
horror flicks on Saturday nights.
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