IMMP
Matthew Porter and his son Ian Porter explore movies, TV, books and music from Matthew's youth, way back in the 20th Century. What stands the test of time? What doesn’t? And what's still worth binging in the new millennium?
Son learns what made Dad ... whatever he is today. And Dad learns what Son thinks of all this.
(Music by Jason Aro / Pond5)
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 188
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
122: Lego BIONICLE (The Millennial Strikes Back)
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 …
121: CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981)
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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Bonus Show: DUNGEONS & DUNGEONS & DRAGONS & DRAGONS
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!
120: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)
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 JA…
119: FANTASTIC VOYAGE
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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118: Irwin Allen’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (TV Series)
Three years after the Seaview saved the world in the 1961 movie VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, she sailed into a very different world as the star of a hit TV series. Ian and Matthew discuss what re…
117: Irwin Allen’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961 Movie)
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 BOT…
116: THE STING
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
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
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
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
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 wa…
111: Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE
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
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
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 196…
108: CONAN THE DESTROYER
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…
107: CONAN THE BARBARIAN starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (1982)
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)
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…
105: THE HOBBIT (Rankin/Bass, 1977)
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
For Halloween 2022, our Frankenstein theme wraps up with one of the stranger, and most beloved, takes on classic monster tropes: the 1960s TV sitcom THE MUNSTERS.
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