IMMP

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

IMMP episodes

June 13, 2023 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!
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38 min
June 12, 2023120: 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 JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.
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Links:
Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film) - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP - Ray Harryhausen Month
Previously on IMMP: The Prisoner
Previously on IMMP: HOMESTARRUNNER.COM (The Millennial Strikes Back)
Previously on IMMP: THE AVENGERS (British secret agents, not Marvel superheroes)
Orpheus - Wikipedia
Penteconter - Wikipedia
E3 Sony 2006 / Giant Enemy Crab | Know Your Meme
Sampo - Wikipedia
The Day the Earth Froze (1959) - MST3K Central - Mystery Science Discourse 3000
Mythos a book by Stephen Fry (affiliate link)
56 min
May 29, 2023119: 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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Links:
Previously on IMMP: Irwin Allen’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (TV Series)
Previously on IMMP: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Previously on IMMP: CONAN THE DESTROYER
Previously on IMMP - The Bixby Boys!
Fridge Logic - TV Tropes
Fridge Horror - TV Tropes
Previously on IMMP: Columbo
Previously on IMMP: John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
Innerspace - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT
Fantastic Voyage (TV series) - Wikipedia
The 11 Best Fantastic Voyage Parodies on TV - Gizmodo
Fantastic Voyage - Wikipedia
53 min
May 15, 2023118: 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 remained the same for this version, and what was very, very different.
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Links:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: Irwin Allen’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961 Movie)
Previously on IMMP: THUNDERBIRDS by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson
Previously on IMMP: James Bond in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
Crimson Tide (film) - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: VeggieTales’ JONAH with special commentary track (The Millennial Strikes Back)
Previously on IMMP: Gerry Anderson’s UFO
50 min
May 01, 2023117: 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 BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
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Links:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Wikipedia
Irwin Allen - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Previously on IMMP: Harryhausen Month: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Previously on IMMP: Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE
Previously on IMMP: ICE STATION ZEBRA
Previously on IMMP: LOST IN SPACE - The Original Series
Van Allen radiation belt - Wikipedia
Kuiper Belt – NASA Solar System Exploration
57 min
April 17, 2023116: 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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Links:
The Sting - Wikipedia
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Wikipedia
William Goldman - Wikipedia
George Roy Hill - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Leverage (American TV series) - Wikipedia
The Sting II - Wikipedia
Now You See Me (film) - Wikipedia
David S. Ward - Wikipedia
41 min
April 03, 2023115: 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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Links:
The Natural (film) - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: LOGAN’S RUN
Previously on IMMP: POKÉMON 3: THE MOVIE (The Millennial Strikes Back)
IMMP Patreon Bonus: THE GREEN KNIGHT (Something New To Watch) | Patreon
Previously on IMMP: KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
Fisher King - Wikipedia
1 hr 1 min
March 20, 2023114: 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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Links:
The Sword and the Sorcerer - Wikipedia
Lee Horsley - Wikipedia
Kathleen Beller - Wikipedia
Richard Lynch - Wikipedia
Richard Moll - Wikipedia
Casa Bonita - Wikipedia
CASA BONITA
Previously on IMMP: CONAN THE BARBARIAN starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (1982)
Previously on IMMP: CONAN THE DESTROYER
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy - Wikipedia
Previously on IMMP: KRULL
Django Unchained - Wikipedia
Fractal Sword - Thiiirdperson | TikTok
59 min
March 06, 2023113: 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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Links:
Time Bandits - Wikipedia
Terry Gilliam - Wikipedia
David Rappaport - Wikipedia
It's a Solid... It's a Liquid... It's Oobleck! - Scientific American
Polaroid SX-70 | Camerapedia | Fandom
Previously on IMMP: THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Time Bandits Map by Magnoli Props
1 hr
February 20, 2023112: 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 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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Links:
The Great Houdini (film) - Wikipedia
Harry Houdini - Wikipedia
Paul Michael Glaser - Wikipedia
Sally Struthers - Wikipedia
Ruth Gordon - Wikipedia
Vivian Vance - Wikipedia
Bess Houdini - Wikipedia
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero a book by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
Starsky & Hutch - Wikipedia
All in the Family - Wikipedia
Bill Bixby - Wikipedia
IMMP - The Bixby Boys
Previously on IMMP: DR. STRANGE (1978)
Metamorphosis (illusion) - Wikipedia
Patreon Bonus: THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD | The Inter-Millennium Media Project on Patreon
Houdini & Doyle (TV Series) - Wikipedia
Harry Houdini - IMDb
Under the Pyramids - Wikipedia
47 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…