IMMP

113: TIME BANDITS

March 6th, 2023 | 59 mins 21 secs

80s, fantasy, movie

In 1981 Terry Gilliam’s third feature film took us beyond space and time through cracks in the universe. A strange and silly universe. The week Ian and Matthew talk about TIME BANDITS.

112: THE GREAT HOUDINI(S) Starring Paul Michael Glaser

February 20th, 2023 | 46 mins 40 secs

70s, biopic, drama, movie, tv

In the early 1900s, Harry Houdini became the world's greatest entertainer by escaping every type of captivity. In the mid 1970s, ten-year-old Matthew was captivated by THE GREAT HOUDINIS, starring Paul Michael Glaser of Starsky and Hutch fame. How will Ian escape this TV biopic?

111: Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE

February 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins

2000s, action, adventure, animation, disney, kids, millennial strikes back

Ian takes over the podcast to lead a discussion of an action-adventure tale that had a deep impact on his young movie-loving mind: Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE.

110: H.P. Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

January 23rd, 2023 | 58 mins 24 secs

30s, adventure, book, horror, scifi

Following their arctic visit to Ice Station Zebra, Ian and Matthew continue their icy endeavors with a journey to the Antarctic to explore H.P Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.

109: ICE STATION ZEBRA

January 9th, 2023 | 50 mins 33 secs

60s, action, drama, movie, thriller

As we deal with the icy winds of January, we ask ourselves: what if we take these icy winds and add Cold War nuclear tensions? And a cool nuclear submarine? Join Ian and Matthew for a talk about 1968's ICE STATION ZEBRA.

108: CONAN THE DESTROYER

December 26th, 2022 | 1 hr 20 mins

80s, action, adventure, fantasy, holiday, movie

Christmas with Conan continues! Right on the tail of 1982's CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Raffaella De Laurentiis produced 1984's CONAN THE DESTROYER. New villain. New sidekicks. New director. New tone. Same Conan?

107: CONAN THE BARBARIAN starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (1982)

December 12th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins

80s, action, fantasy, holiday, movie

Happy Hyborian Holidays! Our December theme is Christmas with Conan, starting with 1982's CONAN THE BARBARIAN starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

106: Ralph Bakshi’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)

November 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min

70s, animation, fantasy, movie, tolkien

More than two decades before Peter Jackson made the world believe that New Zealand is Middle Earth, animator Ralph Bakshi gave us an ambitious and deeply weird adaptation of Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

105: THE HOBBIT (Rankin/Bass, 1977)

November 14th, 2022 | 44 mins 12 secs

70s, animation, kids, musical, tolkien, tv

Tricksey hobbitses! In this episode Ian and Matthew discuss Matthew's junior high Tolkien obsession, and specifically the 1977 Rankin Bass animated version of THE HOBBIT.

104: THE MUNSTERS

October 31st, 2022 | 1 hr 2 mins

60s, comedy, tv

For Halloween 2022, our Frankenstein theme wraps up with the 1964 TV hit THE MUNSTERS.

103: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder

October 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins

70s, comedy, halloween, horror, movie

After the 1931 Universal Adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN -- 43 years after -- Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder revisited the material with ... a parody? A sequel? Both? Something more? Ian and Matthew try to figure it out as they talk about YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

102: FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

October 3rd, 2022 | 54 mins 34 secs

30s, halloween, horror, movie, scifi

The IMMP kicks off Halloween season 2022 with another Universal horror classic.

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