IMMP

By Matthew Porter and Ian PorterComedy TV & Film Society & Culture

IMMP episodes

November 02208: ROLLERBALL (1975)
November is Sports Month at the IMMP! We kick the month off with a sport from the future, as seen in the bygone year of 1975. Set in a hard-to-imagine dystopia where society is controlled by massive corporation the populace is placated with a dramatic blood sport. Welcome to ROLLERBALL, starrting James Caan and John Houseman.
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Links:
Rollerball (1975 film) - Wikipedia
James Caan - Wikipedia
John Houseman - Wikipedia
Norman Jewison - Wikipedia
Douglas Slocombe - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: MST3K and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Rules of The Game: Rollerball | SPEED RALLY
How To Play Whack-Bat | Fantastic Mr. Fox - YouTube
Previously on IMMP: John Carpenter’s THE FOG (1980)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) - IMDb
Rollerball (1975) - watch on YouTube
Torment Nexus | Know Your Meme
54 min
October 19 207: THE SHINING (1980)
In 1980, genius filmmaker Stanley Kubrick released an adaptation of genius horror novelist Stephen King's THE SHINING. The movies were never the same again.
Willl Ian be the same after Matthew has had him watch this movie?
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1 hr 3 min
October 05206: SALEM'S LOT (1979)
It's Halloween season once again at the IMMP!
This year Matthew ushers Ian into the world of Stephen King, begining with the 1979 TV version of King's vampire chiller SALEM'S LOT.
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Previously on IMMP: POLTERGEIST (1982)
Watch Dark Shadows Streaming Online | Tubi Free TV
Watch Starsky & Hutch Streaming Online | Tubi Free TV
Previously on IMMP: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Previously on IMMP: DIE HARD
Previously on IMMP: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH
Previously on IMMP: DRACULA (1931, starring Bela Lugosi)
Previously on IMMP: Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON
NOSFERATU (1922) (Drafthouse Diary Movie Vlog) - YouTube
Previously on IMMP: SALEM'S LOT (1979)
The Shining, Lost in Adaptation ~ The Dom - YouTube
Navi (The Legend of Zelda) - Wikipedia
Watch Room 237 (2012) - Free Movies | Tubi
Previously on IMMP: THE LOVE BOAT
Doctor Sleep (2019 film) - Wikipedia
Doktor Sleepless - Wikipedia
1 hr 10 min
September 21205: FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO
It's Producer's Prerogative Month at the IMMP, where Matthew and Ian discuss films chosen by the podcast's producer - also known as Mrs. Darling Wife.
This week Ian and Matthew discuss a classic World War II thriller -- directed and co-written by Billy Wilder -- that was a favorite of Ian's grandfather. It's Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, and Erich von Stroheim in FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO from 1943.
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Links:
Five Graves to Cairo - Wikipedia
Billy Wilder | Biography, Movies, Awards, & Facts | Britannica
Prime Video: The Night Manager, Season 1
Key Largo (film) - Wikipedia
1 hr 1 min
September 07204: ISLAND OF TERROR (1969)
This September at the IMMP Podcast is Producer's Prerogative Month, in which Ian and Matthew discuss movies recommended by our indespensible podcast producer.
First up: Isolated townfolk and stalwart scientists battle a bone-chilling menace in the 1969 British sci-fi thriller ISLAND OF TERROR. (aka "Squishy Cows")
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Links:
Watch Island of Terror (1966) - Free Movies | Tubi
Previously on IMMP: Bette Davis in NOW, VOYAGER
Previously on IMMP: MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1935)
Previously on IMMP: DRACULA (1931, starring Bela Lugosi)
Previously on IMMP: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH
Previously on IMMP: THE THIN MAN
Umamusume: Pretty Derby Official Website | Cygames
Previously on IMMP: FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Previously on IMMP: THE GUNS OF NAVARONE and FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE
1 hr
August 24203: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH
Science, hidden mysteries, and good old ancient curses are no match for the paragon of British science, Bernard Quatermass. Jim Porter joins Ian and Matthew once again to talk about FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH, aka Quatermass and the Pit, from 1967.
Special Guest: Jim Porter.
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Links:
Quatermass and the Pit (film) - Wikipedia
Quatermass: The sci-fi series that terrified a generation - BBC
Previously on IMMP: BUCKAROO BANZAI
Previously on IMMP: GHOSTBUSTERS
1 hr 4 min
August 11202: ERNIE KOVACS
This week Ian and Matthew talk about a pioneer in television, both in comedy and beyond. Someone who would have been at home on TikTok six decades before it was invented. The unique creator ERNIE KOVACS.
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Links:
Ernie Kovacs - Official Site
Bell, Book and Candle - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: HOMESTARRUNNER.COM (The Millennial Strikes Back)
YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!) - YouTube
53 min
July 27201: DESK SET
Way back in 1957, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starred in a romantic comedy about a quaint old-fashioned problem: a big corporation threatening to replace human researchers and writers with an artificial intelligence. This episide, Matthew and Ian talk about DESK SET.
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Links:
Desk Set - Wikipedia
Spencer Tracy - Wikipedia
Katharine Hepburn - Wikipedia
IBM Watson
Apple just made your app obsolete? You've been 'Sherlocked'
The Song of Hiawatha
— By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.
Ant-Man and The Wasp – “Luis Storytelling” Movie Clip [HD] - YouTube
— You know what? I'm Luis!
Previously on IMMP: FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
Previously on IMMP: PAJAMA SAM from Humongous Entertainment
Previously on IMMP - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
53 min
July 13200: SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS - plus MST3K
The IMMP's special 200th episode brings Christmas in July! Ian and Matthew talk about the peculiar holiday science fiction movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, that Matthew remembers from his childhood. And they also talk about Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the MST3K treatment of that same movie, which is how it became a part of Ian's world.
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Links:
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - Wikipedia
About Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Mystery Science Theater 3000
Previously on IMMP: SPEED RACER - Live at NDK
Previously on IMMP: FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
Previously on IMMP: THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
John Carter of Mars - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: THE GREAT RACE (1965)
Previously on IMMP: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
MST3K 321: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - YouTube
— Full MST3K episode!
(13) MST3K 424: Manos The Hands of Fate (FULL MOVIE) - YouTube
Joel Hodgson - Saturday Night Live - YouTube
Guest Performance - Joel Hodgson - Saturday Night Live - YouTube
Pia Zadora - Wikipedia
Patrick Swayze | Biography, Movies, Dirty Dancing, Death, & Facts | Britannica
Road House (1989 film) - Wikipedia
Red One (film) - Wikipedia
1 hr 11 min
June 29199: JAWS
Fourth of July is coming! Ian and Matthew try to keep the beaches open as they discuss Steven Spielberg's classic monster movie from 1975.
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Links:
Jaws (film) - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: THE PINK PANTHER "TRILOGY"
Previously on IMMP: 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT starring Roy Scheider
Previously on IMMP: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
USS Indianapolis | Sinking, Shark Attack, Wreck, Survivors, Captain, & Facts | Britannica
Shark - The Gang Beasts Wiki
Previously on IMMP: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE
1 hr 8 min

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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…