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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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.