Matthew Porter
Co-Host of IMMP
Matthew Porter is a writer, speaker, coffee enthusiast and destroyer of keyboards.
Matthew Porter has hosted 150 Episodes.
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086: THE JEWEL OF THE NILE
February 21st, 2022 | 53 mins 21 secs
80s, action, adventure, comedy, movie, romance
How do you follow up a surprise hit like 1984’s ROMANCING THE STONE? With a quick sequel, 1985’s THE JEWEL OF THE NILE.
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085: ROMANCING THE STONE
February 7th, 2022 | 46 mins 11 secs
1984, 80s, action, adventure, comedy, movie, romance
As Valentine's Day approaches, we talk about the 1984 romantic action adventure ROMANCING THE STONE.
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084: John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
January 24th, 2022 | 47 mins 57 secs
80s, action, midnight hbo film festival, movie, scifi
In the year 1981 John Carpenter and Kurt Russell showed us how bad things could be in the year 1997.
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083: Sonic or Harvey? CHOOSE YOUR SASSY ANIMAL FRIEND
January 10th, 2022 | 47 mins 12 secs
2020s, 50s, comedy, movie, video games
Sonic the Hedgehog, or Harvey the rabbit?
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082: THE STARLOST starring Keir Dullea
December 28th, 2021 | 49 mins 20 secs
70s, holiday, scifi, tv
It’s Keir Dullea versus the perils of a large spaceship with a faulty computer. No, it’s not 2001. It’s THE STARLOST.
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081: 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT starring Roy Scheider
December 13th, 2021 | 50 mins 58 secs
1984, 80s, adventure, drama, holiday, movie, scifi
Maybe 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY didn’t need a sequel. But it got one. So Ian and Matthew are back to discuss the 1984 film 2010.
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080: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
November 29th, 2021 | 58 mins 15 secs
60s, drama, holiday, movie, scifi
In the year 1968, Stanley Kubrick offered a vision of what life would be like in the year 2001. And that vision was "very bright, very glossy, very high tech, very trippy." This week the IMMP addresses 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
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Bonus Show - DUNE (2021)
November 17th, 2021 | 35 mins 27 secs
2020s, bonus, movie, scifi
From our Patreon bonus feed: We followed our recent reading of the novel DUNE with a special Something New To Watch show about the Denis Villeneuve movie. Hope you enjoy!
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079: REMINGTON STEELE
November 15th, 2021 | 50 mins 50 secs
80s, mystery, romance, tv
Mystery and romance with some "will they or won't they?" tension. There was a lot of that in 80s TV. Where did it start? Some would say right here, with Pierce Bronson and Stephanie Zimbalist starring in REMINGTON STEELE.
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078: James Bond in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
November 1st, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
70s, action, bond, movie
There are so many James Bond movies to choose from, so we decided to start with the first one Matthew saw in a theater.
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077: Jean Cocteau’s LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Beauty and the Beast, 1946)
October 18th, 2021 | 58 mins 2 secs
40s, fantasy, french, halloween, movie, romance
The IMMP’s Halloween 2021 celebration continues with a surreal take on a fairy tale.
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076: DRACULA (1931, starring Bela Lugosi)
October 4th, 2021 | 46 mins
30s, halloween, horror, movie
Halloween 2021 kicks off with the first of the legendary Universal monster movies: DRACULA.