Matthew Porter
Co-Host of IMMP
Matthew Porter is a writer, speaker, coffee enthusiast and destroyer of keyboards.
Matthew Porter has hosted 178 Episodes.
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146: MAD MAX (1979)
June 10th, 2024 | 52 mins 57 secs
70s, action, drama, movie
The IMMP 2024 Summer Road Trip starts off on the deadly highways of Australia with George Miller and Byron Kennedy's original MAD MAX from 1979.
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145: PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
May 27th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
60s, adventure, movie, scifi
Back In 1968, Charlton Heston played a misanthropic space commander who journeyed to a world free of human bureaucrats....but not free of bureaucracy! It's PLANET OF THE APES.
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144: ALIEN (1979)
May 13th, 2024 | 53 mins 39 secs
70s, horror, movie, scifi
Back in 1979 Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon and an intrepid crew encountered a terrifying unknown entity and influenced decades of science fiction cinema.
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143: EARTH II (1971 TV movie)
April 29th, 2024 | 57 mins 42 secs
70s, drama, movie, scifi, tv
Way back in 1971, when the Apollo program was still cool, a TV pilot imagined a techno-utopia in orbit. Governed by D&D. It's EARTH II.
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142: John Carpenter’s THE FOG (1980)
April 15th, 2024 | 59 mins 1 sec
80s, horror, john carpenter, movie
The IMMP rolls into another John Carpenter movie with 1980's THE FOG.
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141: NIMOY'S PREVIOUS FRONTIER
April 1st, 2024 | 55 mins 19 secs
60s, action, adventure, scifi, tv
It's finally time for the IMMP to talk about the TV series Leonard Nimoy was in years before IN SEARCH OF...
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140: IN SEARCH OF… Hosted by Leonard Nimoy
March 18th, 2024 | 49 mins 46 secs
70s, documentary, paranormal, tv
In 1977, Leonard Nimoy brought a cornucopia of weirdness to curious young minds: IN SEARCH OF...
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139: David Lynch’s DUNE (1984)
March 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 3 mins
80s, movie, scifi
In 1984, while studio execs panicked and audiences scratched their heads, Universal Pictures released David Lynch’s trippy, epic adaptation of DUNE.
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138: Bette Davis in NOW, VOYAGER
February 19th, 2024 | 55 mins 58 secs
40s, drama, movie, romance
Melodrama month continues with 1942's NOW, VOYAGER. Bette Davis and Paul Henreid star in a saga of metal health, personal transformation, and really, really bad parenting.
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137: MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1935)
February 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 secs
30s, drama, movie, philosophy, romance
Before THE CELESTINE PROPHECY...before THE SECRET...before female characters had agency?...there was...the 1935 film MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION.
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136: ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING
January 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
80s, adventure, comedy, movie
An epic American quest of danger and self-discovery through the mythic land of Chicago. The IMMP looks at 1987's ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING
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135: MYST
January 8th, 2024 | 59 mins
90s, game, millennial strikes back
Ian takes over podcast and reaches into the world of computer games for a discussion of one of the most formative media properties of his life: MYST.