IMMP - Episodes Tagged with “Movie”

193: THE KARATE KID

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0600

Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio star in a sports movie -- but much more than a sports movie -- from the magical year of 1984.

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192: Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0600

Part James Bond thriller, part sports movie, and turbocharged with Bruce Lee's amazing martial arts talent. Ian and Matthew discuss the 1973 martial arts spy thriller that was to have been Bruce Lee's entry into Hollywood stardom: ENTER THE DRAGON

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188: AIRPLANE!

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0700

The IMMP celebration of Leslie Nielsen continues with one of the greatest career pivots in Hollywood history. The shift that launched ten thousand jokes (per movie), and brought the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker era of comedy into the mainstream

It's 1980's AIRPLANE!

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187: FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0700

2026 at the IMMP kicks off with a celebration of the stalwart, always watchable Leslie Nielsen as we approach the 100th anniversary of his birth. And what better place to start than his role as Commander Adams of the United Planets in the classic and influential science fiction take on Shakespear's The Tempest: FORBIDDEN PLANET.

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186: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0700

The IMMP 2025 Holiday Road Trip continues with a tale of danger, intrigue, espionage, violence, regime change, and romance ... in the form of a movie for children.

A kid's movie from the mind of Ian Fleming.

It's the beloved Dick Van Dyke (Happy 100th Birthday, sir!) in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.

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185: THE GREAT RACE (1965)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0700

It's time for the IMMP Holiday Road Trip! We begin with a drive from New York to Paris, as we follow Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood in Blake Edwards' THE GREAT RACE.

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184: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0700

Navaronevember continues! This episode Ian and Matthew discuss the long-delayed sequel to The Guns of Navarone, featuring our favorite characters from the original, played by brand new actors ... plus two significant new American characters. It's 1978's FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE.

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183: THE GUNS OF NAVARONE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0700

November kicks off with a first for the IMMP Podcast: A World War II movie!

In this 1961 classic, Gregory Peck and David Niven brave hostile terrain, German patrols and so, so many cigarettes to destroy THE GUNS OF NAVARONE

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182: POLTERGEIST (1982)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 05:00:00 -0600

Halloween Season 2025 continues with a Spielberg classic, directed by Tobe Hooper, of a suburban family strugging against an evil tree, a hungry closet, and a truly terrible choice of neighborhood. It's 1982's POLTERGEIST.

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181: THE UNINVITED (1944)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:00:00 -0600

To kick off Halloween season 2025, Matthew and Ian talk about the classic ghost story THE UNINVITED, starring Ray Milland, Gail Russell and Ruth Hussey.

Along the way the discussion ventures into haunted families, finding the right tone in a horror movie, and a surprising connection between this 1944 film and THE MARTIAN.

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180: John Cusack in BETTER OFF DEAD

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:00:00 -0600

Back to School month continues at the IMMP, as Ian and Matthew discuss the dark, surreal, and just plain weird Savage Steve Holland comedy BETTER OFF DEAD from 1985, starring John Cusak and Curtis Armstrong.

The 80s were a weird time.

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179: Val Kilmer in REAL GENIUS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:00:00 -0600

It's Back to School time at the IMMP, so Ian and Matthew check in with the gang at Pacific Tech for the 1985 cool-science college comedy REAL GENIUS.

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177: Danny Kaye in THE COURT JESTER (1955)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:00:00 -0600

He lusts for a laugh! HA!

Special guest(and Matthew's brother/Ian's uncle) Jim Porter returns to the podcast to discuss the 1955 Danny Kaye medieval comedy Technicolor epic THE COURT JESTER.

And Matthew nerds out about VistaVision.

Special Guest: Jim Porter.

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171: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood in CITY HEAT

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 26 May 2025 05:00:00 -0600

In 1984 Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds share the screen in a ... a thing. Comedy? Mystery? Drama? Violent action movie? Whatever it is, it's called CITY HEAT.

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169: HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0600

After learning the ropes in Sergio Leone's Italian Westerns, Clint Eastwood took the reins to direct the 1973 film HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER.

Not an easy movie to watch, but it makes for an intersting conversation.

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168: A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0600

In 1964, the dream team of actor Clint Eastwood, director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone changed westerns forever, with A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS.

And Akira Kurosawa had something to say about that.

Join Ian and Matthew for a discussion of the movie and its impact on decades of moviemaking.

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167: ZARDOZ

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:45:00 -0600

In 1974, John Boorman created a trippy, futuristic ... thing, full of broad social commentary (as well as sex, violence and very, very odd wardrobe choices). And Sean Connery starred, in an effort to break free of the James Bond persona.

Did they succeed? Can Ian and Matthew make any sense of this? Listen to find out.

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166: James Bond in DR. NO

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0600

Matthew and Ian return to the strange land of 1962 for a discussion of the very first James Bond movie, DR. NO. Along the way they take a few detours, including a pitch for a SPIDER-BOND crossover series.

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164: FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1991)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0700

Weddings bells ring at the Inter-Millennium Media Project! To celebrate the upcoming nuptials, Ian and Matthew welcome Ian's bride-to-be* Jennifer Ogden to discuss the 1991 remake of FATHER OF THE BRIDE starring Steve Martin and Diane Keaton.

*By the time you hear this, they will be husband and wife!

Special Guest: Jennifer Ogden-Porter.

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Previously on IMMP: ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING

163: THE IN-LAWS (1979)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0700

As wedding bells approach at the IMMP headquarters, Ian and Matthew discuss the 1979 action comedy THE IN LAWS starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.

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160: DIE HARD

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -0700

For Christmas week, Ian and Matthew discuss a holiday classic from 1988 - Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman in John McTiernan's DIE HARD.

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159: Irwin Allen's THE TOWERING INFERNO

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -0700

Christmas is a time for parties, bright lights and surprises. So this year the IMMP kicks off our holiday theme with 1974's THE TOWERING INFERNO from disaster master Irwin Allen.

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158: THE BIG CLOCK (1948)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -0700

After our prior episode about No Way Out, a 1987 adaptation of the novel The Big Clock, this time we talk about the original 1948 adaptation of The Big Clock called... THE BIG CLOCK.

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157: NO WAY OUT (1987)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -0700

From the heyday of the techno thriller, we've got a very 80s movie with Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, and lots of political and criminal intrigue. It's NO WAY OUT.

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156: Disney's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 05:00:00 -0600

In 1983, Walt Disney Productions released an interesting experiment: A children's horror movie set in an old-timey American town menaced by an evil carnival, with a screenplay adapted by Ray Bradbury himself from his classic novel. Doesn't sound very Disney, does it? It's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.

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154: ALIENS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0600

In 1986 James Cameron brought us another look at the creature from Ridley Scott's 1979 classic ALIEN. Plus some Space Marines. Plus a Space Yuppie. Plus an extra "S". It's ALIENS!

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153: John Carpenter's STARMAN

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0600

In 1984, John Carpenter brought to earth a movie than blended road trip, romance, sci fi, and just a touch of Stockholm Syndrome. It's Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges in STARMAN.

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151: JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0600

Before UFO, before SPACE:1999, Sylvia and Gerry Anderson went to the far side of the sun for a movie known to most of the world as DOPPELGANGER.

For this special episode of the IMMP Podcast, Ian and Matthew are joined by Jim Porter. (He's Matthew's brother, and he's Ians uncle!)

Special Guest: Jim Porter.

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150: John Carpenter's BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0600

For the IMMP's 150th episode, we revel in what may be Ian and Matthew's shared favorite movie: John Carpenter's incomparable BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.

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148: MAX MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0600

The 2024 Summer Road Trip continues through post-apocalypse Australia...without highways? And mainly without cars?

It's a strange parable of civilizations and the stories they tell themselves. It's MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME.

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147: MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:00:00 -0600

The IMMP Summer Road Trip continues with the story of a heroic gyro copter pilot. And some guy named Max. It's THE ROAD WARRIOR.

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146: MAD MAX (1979)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 05:00:00 -0600

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. Ian and Matthew talk about heroes, antiheroes, mythology, and a romcom prequel "Rockatansky & Jess."

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145: PLANET OF THE APES (1968)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 27 May 2024 05:00:00 -0600

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)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 13 May 2024 05:00:00 -0600

Back in 1979 Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon and an intrepid crew encountered a terrifying unknown entity and influenced decades of science fiction cinema. And Matthew became a seventh grade hero for seeing it on opening night.

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143: EARTH II (1971 TV movie)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0600

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)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0600

It's almost Founder's Day at Antonio Bay, so the IMMP celebrates by rolling into John Carpenter's 1980 movie THE FOG.

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139: David Lynch’s DUNE (1984)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0700

Is the Weirding Module code for Transcendental Meditation? Was Kyle MacLachlan way too old to portray Paul Atreides? Did the Guild Navigator really need that guy with the shop vac? Ian and Matthew discuss these questions and more after a trip to the Alamo Drafthouse to see David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's DUNE.

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138: Bette Davis in NOW, VOYAGER

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0700

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)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0700

Before THE CELESTINE PROPHECY...before THE SECRET...before female characters had agency?...there was...John M. Stahl's 1935 film MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.

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136: ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0700

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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131: Irwin Allen’s THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:00:00 -0700

It's a little early for New Year's, but never too early for an Irwin Allen disaster movie like 1972's THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.

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Bonus: DRACULA (Spanish language 1931)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:00:00 -0600

One final Halloween treat for 2023. This is a discussion from the Patron feed, and from the Drafthouse Diary video series, about the 1931 Spanish version of DRACULA starring Carlos Villarías and Lupita Tovar.

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130: THE WOLF MAN starring Lon Chaney Jr. (1941)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Ian and Matthew close out Halloween 2023 with another Universal monster movie: the psychological mystery of THE WOLF MAN. But they can't help themselves from also arguing some more about THE INVISIBLE MAN, and whether any Universal monster movies really have a hero at all.

Except for Van Helsing in DRACULA. Professor Van Helsing remains awesome.

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129: THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Halloween season 2023 continues at the IMMP as Ian and Matthew watched (well, sort of watched?) Claude Rains in Universal's 1933 THE INVISIBLE MAN.
WARNING: Includes a very nerdy digression about hidden movement boardgames.

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128: THE MUMMY (1932)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0600

This year’s Halloween theme at the Inter-Millennium Media Project surveys more of the Universal movie monster landscape, starting with Boris Karloff in 1932’s THE MUMMY, a tale of love, death, magic, and dangerous jewelry.

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127: MY FAVORITE YEAR

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Come visit the live television industry of 1954 through the lens of a movie from the 1980s: MY FAVORITE YEAR directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Mark Lin-Baker and Peter O'Toole. Truly a movie for fans of movies!

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125: THE ITALIAN JOB (1969)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Our 2023 Summer Road Trip season wraps up with a beloved car movie out of Swinging England of 1969: THE ITALIAN JOB!

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124: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0600

The IMMP Summer Road Trip continues with a 1977 classic about an intrepid truck driver (Jerry Reed), with his buddy (Burt Reynolds) and his buddy's sudden new girlfriend (Sally Field) hauling bootleg beer one step ahead of the law (Jackie Gleason). It's SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT!

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123: THE GUMBALL RALLY

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Summer is time for road trips. And for the IMMP that starts with the odd, stylish 1976 action comedy THE GUMBALL RALLY.

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122: Lego BIONICLE (The Millennial Strikes Back)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0600

This week Ian takes over to show Matthew the 2003 direct-to-DVD movie BIONICLE: THE MASK OF LIGHT, which turns into a discussion of all things related to Lego's BIONICLE, a saga that extended beyond the toy line it was created to support.

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121: CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0600

The IMMP's final Harryhausen Month comes to a close with the final film of Ray Harryhausen's career: the 1981 epic of Greek mythology CLASH OF THE TITANS.

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Clash of the Titans (1981 film) - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP - Ray Harryhausen movies
Previously on IMMP: FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
Previously on IMMP: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)
Orson Welles Quote on happy endings | Quote Catalog — Orson Welles said, “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
Previously on IMMP: John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
Previously on IMMP: RAY HARRYHAUSEN Part 2 — Includes 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957)
Mythos a book by Stephen Fry (affiliate link)

Bonus Show: DUNGEONS & DUNGEONS & DRAGONS & DRAGONS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:00:00 -0600

A bonus show from the Patreon feed: Of course Ian and Matthew had to see the 2023 DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie. But what about the first one, from 2000?

They watched both!

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120: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0600

It's June, and at the IMMP that means Ray Harryhausen Month! This year, as we near the end of Harryhausen's filmography, we enter the realm of swords, sandals and Olympian gods with the 1963 epic JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.

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119: FANTASTIC VOYAGE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 29 May 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea featured a very big submarine. This episode features a very tiny submarine, traveling inside the human body on a FANTASTIC VOYAGE.

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117: Irwin Allen’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961 Movie)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 01 May 2023 05:00:00 -0600

In 1961 sci fi and disaster master Irwin Allen loaded Walter Pidgeon, Robert Sterling, Barbara Eden, Frankie Avalon and Peter Lorre into the submarine Seaview to save the world on a VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.

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116: THE STING

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Psst. Hey. Yeah, you. You look like a smart guy. Can I interest you in what might be the best grift movie of all time? It's Robert Redford and Paul Newman in 1973's THE STING.

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115: THE NATURAL starring Robert Redford

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Just in time for baseball season, Matthew introduced Ian to his favorite baseball movie of all time: THE NATURAL starring Robert Redford.

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114: THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0600

In ancient times of high adventure -- 1982 -- there was a sword. And there was a sorcerer. And their tale was told in a movie with the imaginative title THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER.

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113: TIME BANDITS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0700

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

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0700

In the early 1900s, Harry Houdini became the world's greatest entertainer by executing seemingly impossible escapes from every imaginable type of captivity.

In the mid 1970s, ten-year-old Matthew was captivated by THE GREAT HOUDINIS, a biopic starring Paul Michael Glaser of Starsky and Hutch fame.

How will Ian escape this TV movie?

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109: ICE STATION ZEBRA

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 05:00:00 -0700

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

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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.

Or the first half, at least.

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103: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0600

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)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0600

As Halloween approaches once again, we return to the Universal Pictures monster movie canon to talk about the 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN.

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099: LOGAN’S RUN

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0600

For late August 2022, Matthew chose to show Ian the 70s sci-fi feature LOGAN'S RUN.

For reasons that will become clear.

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098: Mike Nichols’ THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0600

The poster does its best to give the game away: "UNWITTINGLY, HE TRAINED A DOLPHIN TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."

It doesn't bother to mention that he also taught the dolphin to talk.

Ian and Matthew discuss the 1973 marine biology techno thriller (!?) THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN.

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097: Bill Murray in MEATBALLS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0600

It's the height of the summer, and for many that means memories of summer camp. Or summer camp movies like MEATBALLS from Bill Murray, Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis.

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096: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0600

From the depths of space comes a message of peace...or else. Matthew and Ian discuss the 1951 movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.

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095: Harryhausen Month: SINBAD

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0600

The IMMP sets sail with Captain Sinbad! Three different Sinbads, as a matter of fact:

THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1958)

THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973)

and

SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977)

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094: Harryhausen Month: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0600

Giant bees! Giant Chickens! GIANT ENEMY CRAB! Ray Harryhausen takes on Jules Verne in the 1961 adventure MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.

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093: FIRST MEN IN THE MOON

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 30 May 2022 05:00:00 -0600

Our H.G. Wells month wraps up with the 1964 movie FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.

Space cops. Victorian slapstick. Thrilling conflict with a non-human menace. How many movies did they fit into this movie?

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092: THE TIME MACHINE (1960)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 16 May 2022 05:00:00 -0600

H.G. Wells month continues (continued? will continue?) with George Pal's 1960 version of The Time Machine.

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Bonus Show: THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Fri, 13 May 2022 12:00:00 -0600

A bonus show from our special Patreon feed: Something New to Watch!

Ian and Matthew went out to see the movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Nicholas Cage and Pedro Pascal.

That was…an experience. And Matthew feels targeted.

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091: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 02 May 2022 05:00:00 -0600

In 1898 H.G. Wells imagined a war between the people of Earth advanced invaders from Mars. Since then storytellers have re-envisioned this conflict for their own times. One of these was George Pal, whose 1953 movie became a generation's iconic depiction of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. How does that mid-century version hold up seventy years later?

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089: John Boorman’s EXCALIBUR

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -0600

Knights in shining armor. A mythic sword conferring the power to unite a kingdom. A manic mage. Ian and Matthew talk about John Boorman’s Arthurian epic EXCALIBUR.

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086: THE JEWEL OF THE NILE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0700

1984's ROMANCING THE STONE was a hit that surprised even its own studio. So what could they do but make a sequel to release the very next year?

Ian and Matthew find out whether 1985's THE JEWEL OF THE NILE lives up to the original.

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085: ROMANCING THE STONE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0700

Valentine's Day is almost here! And what's more romantic than murder, theft, kidnapping, crocodiles, and movie stars in the jungle?

Ian and Matthew find out as they discuss the 1984 feature ROMANCING THE STONE.

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084: John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:00:00 -0700

In 1981 John Carpenter and Kurt Russell showed us how bad things could be in 1997: the USA, Russia, and China at war, while the United States Police Force maintains Manhattan Island as one big prison.

How does this all play in 2022? Ian and Matthew discuss ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK!

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083: Sonic or Harvey? CHOOSE YOUR SASSY ANIMAL FRIEND

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:00:00 -0700

Ian and Matthew were not able to record a show this week, so we dug into the Patreon archives to assemble a special episode.

Sonic the Hedgehog from the 2020 movie, or Harvey the giant invisible rabbit from the classic Jimmy Stewart movie: Choose your sassy animal companion!

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081: 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT starring Roy Scheider

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 05:00:00 -0700

The IMMP Holiday In Space continues!

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: THE YEAR ME MAKE CONTACT.

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080: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:00:00 -0700

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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Previously on IMMP: Frank Herbert’s DUNE

078: James Bond in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0600

There are so many James Bond movies to choose from, so we decided to start with the first one Matthew saw in a theater: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME starring Roger Moore as James Bond 007.

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077: Jean Cocteau’s LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Beauty and the Beast, 1946)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Continuing the Spooky Castle theme begun with DRACULA, the podcast looks at a unique, surreal French film that is simultaneousy weird, creepy and romantic. It's Jean Cocteau's 1946 film LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Beauty and the Beast).

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Beauty and the Beast (1946 film) - Wikipedia
Jean Cocteau - Wikipedia
Josette Day - Wikipedia
Jean Marais - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: DRACULA (1931, starring Bela Lugosi)
Brows Held High and Some Jerk with a Camera's Beauty and the Beast Crossover! - YouTube
Previously on IMMP: THE ADDAMS FAMILY from 1964 TV
Suns in alchemy - Wikipedia — A green lion consuming the sun is a common alchemical image and is seen in texts such as the Rosarium philosophorum. The symbol is a metaphor for aqua regia (the green lion) consuming matter (the sun), gold.
Enkidu - Wikipedia — wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.
Tower of Hanoi - Wikipedia
Luis Buñuel - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: SUPERMAN (1978)

076: DRACULA (1931, starring Bela Lugosi)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 05:00:00 -0600

He had style, he had game, and he was starting a new life in England.

Well, except for the "life" part.

IMMP's Halloween 2021 kicks off with the first of the legendary Universal monster movies: DRACULA starring Bela Lugosi.

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074: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:00:00 -0600

This 1977 movie gave us mysterious visitations, government cover-ups, a sense of wonder, and the template for 1980s Spielberg. Ian and Matthew talk about CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.

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073: THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Science fairs are fun. Wouldn't they be more fun with working nuclear weapons?

John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon and John Mahoney find out in 1986's THE MANHATTAN PROJECT.

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072: COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Following up on Wargames, Ian and Matthew talk about a 1970 movie in which a scientist creates a supercomputer to protect mankind from nuclear war -- and succeeds!

Sounds happy, doesn't it?

It's not.

It's COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT.

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071: WARGAMES

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0600

DON'T TAKE THE MEN OUT OF THE PODCAST LOOP. Instead listen to Ian and Matthew talk about 1983's WARGAMES starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin.

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070: POKÉMON 3: THE MOVIE (The Millennial Strikes Back)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0600

POKÉMON 3: THE MOVIE. Or POKÉMON THE MOVIE 3. Or SPELL OF THE UNOWN: ENTEI. Or... listen, this movie has a lot of titles. But we’re here to find out what it meant to Ian, and why. And does it still hold up?

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068: RAY HARRYHAUSEN Part 1

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0600

June is Ray Harryhausen Month! Ian and Matthew celebrate Ray Harryhausen's 101st birthday with a look at two of his earliest movies: THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA.

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067: Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee in THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 31 May 2021 05:00:00 -0600

H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror gets a 70s-hippie-sex-magic take in this Roger Corman-produced version of THE DUNWICH HORROR.

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066: Bill Murray in THE RAZOR’S EDGE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 17 May 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Matthew has shown Ian Bill Murray in Stripes. And Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. And now, Bill Murray in ... an adaptation of a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

It's finally time for Ian to learn his Dad's complicated relationship with The Razor's Edge.

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065: GHOSTBUSTERS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 03 May 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Matthew was enthralled by the film when it premiered in 1984, but Ian has never known a world without GHOSTBUSTERS and the sprawling franchise it launched. How will this affect the spirit in which they view the original movie?

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064: SOMEWHERE IN TIME starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Some say love is destined to transcend the bounds of time. How about a movie? What will Ian think of Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer in the 1980 time travel romance SOMEWHERE IN TIME?

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062: STOP MAKING SENSE - the film by Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Last episode, Matthew introduced Ian to the album STOP MAKING SENSE by Talking Heads. Now it's time to complete the picture with full the concert film.

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Previously on IMMP: STOP MAKING SENSE - the album by Talking Heads
Stop Making Sense (the film) - Wikipedia
Jonathan Demme - Wikipedia
Bernie Worrell - Wikipedia
Speaking in tongues (Glossolalia) - Wikipedia
Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album) - Wikipedia
R.E.M. - Wikipedia
Automatic for the People - Wikipedia
Monster (R.E.M. album) - Wikipedia
The Last Emperor - Wikipedia — How could Matthew have forgotten Byrne’s work on this Oscar-winning film score?
Stop Making Sense (Amazon)

059: HIGHLANDER

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Matthew and Ian discuss the original 1986 movie that assured us There Can Be Only One.

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058: DR. STRANGE (1978)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0700

This TV movie from 1978 introduces Dr. Stephen Strange, a psychiatrist (?!) who learns he has a destiny in a magical war for the fate of humanity.

Marvel did some peculiar things back in the 70s.

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057: SUPERMAN (1978)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0700

In the 1970s, the early days of the big-budget movie blockbuster, a lot of hopes and dollars went into this movie version of SUPERMAN directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve.

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055: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0700

The IMMP Holmes for the Holidays series continues with the most famous 20th century adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's characters: the 1939 film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

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053: Disney’s TRON: LEGACY

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0700

Twenty-eight years after Disney released TRON, we finally got a sequel: TRON: LEGACY. Which gave Ian a TRON movie for his own generation, and gave the IMMP this new Millennial Strikes Back episode.

As usual, there are spoilers ahead.

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052: Disney’s TRON

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0700

That’s TRON. He fights for the users.

In 1982, Disney took us to the world inside a computer to combine an epic fantasy quest with ground-breaking visuals.

Yeah, this is pretty much coded to attach itself to Matthew and Ian's DNA.

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051: THE NIGHT THAT PANICKED AMERICA

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:00:00 -0600

In 1897 H.G. Wells wrote the novel War of the Worlds.

In 1938 Orson Welles created a radio drama based on the novel, and sent Americans into a panic when they believed it was a real news broadcast.

In 1975 the ABC Television Network produced a TV movie dramatizing the making of the radio broadcast and the public reaction to it.

In 2020, Ian and Matthew offer this podcast about the 1975 TV movie.

Layers upon layers.

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049: CLOAK & DAGGER

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 05:00:00 -0600

It's a Hitchcock-style spy thriller with kidnapping, murder, gunfights and explosions.

And, um, it's a "family" movie?

It's the strange 1984 gem CLOAK & DAGGER.

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047: DONNIE DARKO (The Millennial Strikes Back)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:00:00 -0600

A special Millennial Strikes Back episode. Ian talks with his dad Matthew about Donnie Darko, how the movie affects him, and the story of how he first watched it.

We don't doubt your commitment.

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045: WKW - SPACE: 1999, PROJECT U.F.O. and THE THIN MAN

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:00:00 -0600

What do Project U.F.O., Space: 1999, and The Thin Man have in common? After talking about them on the podcast, Matthew and Ian kept watching. This episode of the IMMP dives into the later seasons and movies of all three series.

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044: THE THIN MAN

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:00:00 -0600

Dashiell Hammett's writing helped define the American mystery genre. And in their adaptation of his novel The Thin Man, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and director W. S. Van Dyke showed us how smart and funny an American mystery film could be. Shake up a fresh cocktail, sharpen your wits, and join Ian and Matthew for a discussion of this glorious movie.

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043: Disney’s THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:00:00 -0600

Unregulated biomedical testing on humans, performance enhancing substance use in collegiate athletics -- that's what the heroes are up to in the Disney comedy romp The Strongest Man in the World starring Kurt Russell as Medfield College man Dexter Riley.

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042: KRULL

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 05:00:00 -0600

As from the depths of space comes the Black Fortress, so from the early 1980s comes the weird, colorful fantasy film called KRULL.

Podcast contains SPOLIERS for this 1983 movie.

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041: Disney’s NOW YOU SEE HIM NOW YOU DON’T

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:00:00 -0600

Retun with us to Disney's Medfield College Cinematic Universe, where science student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) has created an invibility formula.

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039: THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 04 May 2020 05:00:00 -0600

Starting from the vantage of the 1981 BCC TV show, Ian and Matthew discuss Douglas Adams' sprawling multimedia masterwork The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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038: MAZES AND MONSTERS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 05:00:00 -0600

In Rona Jaffe's MAZES AND MONSTERS we get an 80s TV movie take on Dungeons and Dragons and how it can sever a young person's ties to reality. Make a saving throw or take 4d8 sensationalism damage.

Warning, SPOILERS!

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Bonus Show - HACKERS

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:00:00 -0600

Our theme of computerized kids versus The Man does not end with the Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. In this bonus show for patrons, we talk about the 1995 movie HACKERS. We saw this thanks to a special “Hindsight is 20/20” screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, and — spoiler alert — it was a lot of fun.

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034: Disney’s THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0700

Eight long years before The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Disney introduced Medfield College, and “flubber," in THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR. It doesn't have Kurt Russell, but it does have Fred MacMurray and Nancy Olson as the most charming couple ever to violate the laws of thermodynamics.

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033: Disney’s THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0700

Before he was MacReady in THE THING, before he was Snake Plisskin in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, Kurt Russell was happy-go-lucky Medfield College man Dexter Riley in the Disney comedy The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

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032: John Carpenter’s THE THING

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0700

Continuing the theme of survival against a harsh environment and an alien menace, Ian and Matthew discuss the second feature film adaptation of the novella "Who Goes There?": John Carpenter’s 1982 sci fi/horror classic THE THING.

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Bonus Show: THUNDERBIRDS Live Action Movie (2004)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:00:00 -0700

Reposted from the IMMP Patreon feed, this special bonus episode covers the 2004 live action THUNDERBIRDS movie.

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031: THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0700

In 1951, producer Howard Hawks and director Christian Nyby drew on the current flying saucer craze and a 1938 novella to create an amazingly tight movie of survival at the North Pole: The Thing From Another World.

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027: DRAGONSLAYER

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:00:00 -0700

The 1981 movie DRAGONSLAYER may be little remembered today, but it contains lots of magic and adventure. And more gore than you might expect from a Disney production. And surprising explosions.

A lot of spoilers in this episode, so please beware.

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025: PSYCHOMANIA

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 05:00:00 -0600

English bikers, weird cults, standing stones, the undead, and very questionable folk music come together in the strangely compelling 1973 movie Psychomania.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Please note: The movie discussed in this episode of the IMMP Podcast deals with the subject of suicide, in a horror fantasy context. If you might find this subject upsetting, please consider listening to a different episode or to another fine podcast.

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023: YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:00:00 -0600

What if Sherlock Holmes and John Watson had met when they were still in school, long before Watson was a combat surgeon and Holmes was a cocaine addict? And what if Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Chris Columbus and Henry Winkler got together to make a movie about it? The surprising and often neglected Young Sherlock Holmes may be the most 80s thing ever.

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020: VeggieTales’ JONAH with special commentary track (The Millennial Strikes Back)

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 05:00:00 -0600

Religious themes explored through a combination of psychedelic vegetation and innovative, discursive storytelling style. No, Ian and Matthew didn’t watch Altered States again. For this Millennial Strikes Back episode, they watched Jonah, a VeggieTales Movie. But they watched it with the strange and incredibly funny DVD commentary track featuring the characters Larry the Cucumber and Mr. Lunt, everyone's favorite decorative gourd. The movie may be for kids, but this commentary track is not.

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019: Ken Russell’s ALTERED STATES

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 05:00:00 -0600

Screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky. Direction by Ken Russell. Ideas by throwing hippies, scientists, spiritual seekers and horror fanatics into a supercollider. This week Matthew and Ian discuss the 1980 movie ALTERED STATES.

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018: CAPRICORN ONE

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:00:00 -0600

The often neglected 1970s gem Capricorn One features secrets, conspiracies, action, and astronauts showing a kind of heroism very different from what they signed up for.

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011: Bill Murray in STRIPES

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 05:00:00 -0600

There is a special place in every man’s heart for the stupid comedies that spoke to him when he was sixteen. But do they hold up decades later? Find out as the IMMP discusses the 1981 Bill Murray/Harold Ramis/Ivan Reitman movie Stripes.

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004: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Matthew Porter and Ian Porter — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 05:00:00 -0700

IMMP leaves the TV lounge and goes to the movies, to watch the Disney adventure classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Before Red October was hunted, before K-19 made any widows, before the Beatles lived in a xanthous submersible filled with drugs, there was the greatest submarine of all. The Nautilus, from the Jules Verne novel of 1870. And there was one of the great tortured antiheroes in its Captain Nemo.

In 1954, Walt Disney Productions released a grand, spectacular feature film version of the tale, the most costly movie ever at the time it was made.

Will the film hold the same magic for Matthew as it did in the 70s when he was an eight-year-old lover of adventure stories? And what will Ian make of Peter Lorre as a good guy, or Kirk Douglas as a singing whaler?

WARNING 1: Contains spoilers for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

WARNING 2: Ian sings a fo'c's'le song.

Have question, comments? You can reach us at immpcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter @IMMPcast.

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