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
065: GHOSTBUSTERS
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 th…
064: SOMEWHERE IN TIME starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
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 …
063: Andy Griffith in SALVAGE 1
Andy Griffith has played a lot of roles, but to Matthew he'll always be Harry Broderick, the junk man with dreams of the moon in 1979's SALVAGE 1.
Links:
062: STOP MAKING SENSE - the film by Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads
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.
Links:
061: STOP MAKING SENSE - the album by Talking Heads
A groundbreaking album from the groundbreaking movie by a groundbreaking band. With so much broken ground, will Matthew have a place to stand as he introduces this to Ian?
Links:
060: BEWITCHED
Long before Wandavision gave us its take on a magical being trying to make a home in the American suburbs, viewers were entertained by Wanda and Vision's forebears, Darrin and Samantha Stevens of Bew…
059: HIGHLANDER
Matthew and Ian discuss the original 1986 movie that assured us There Can Be Only One.
Links:
058: DR. STRANGE (1978)
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.
057: SUPERMAN (1978)
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.
Bonus Show - FROZEN HOLMES
Why do people keep wanting to freeze Sherlock Holmes? Or more to the point, why do people want to thaw him out in the future — his future, or ours?
Ian and Matthew explore this in their discussion of…
056: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
Our Holmes for the Holidays series concludes with what for some is the canonical screen adaptation of the character: the 1984 - 1994 Grenada TV series starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.
055: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
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.
054: A STUDY IN SCARLET by Arthur Conan Doyle
It's the most wonderful time of the year. A time of magic, wonder, and the foiling of crime through incisive deduction. IMMP presents HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
For our first episode we start at the b…
053: Disney’s TRON: LEGACY
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.
…
052: Disney’s TRON
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…
051: THE NIGHT THAT PANICKED AMERICA
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.
…
050: KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
It ran for two TV movies and one series season, but it launched a thousand other monster-for-the-week TV shows. It's the 1970s Darren McGavin classic Kolchack: The Night Stalker.
Links:
049: CLOAK & DAGGER
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.
Links:
048: LAND OF THE LOST
Take the creators of Lidsville and H.R. Pufnstuf, add a pool of creative 1970s science fiction writers, and mix with rubber lizard-man suits and stop motion dinosaurs. The results are probably not wh…
047: DONNIE DARKO (The Millennial Strikes Back)
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.