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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Unable to decide on a single Pink Panther movie from the classic series starring Peter Sellers, Ian and Matthew watched three of them -- or, four movies between them both. It will make more sense when you listen.

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Of all the Humongous Entertainment "Junior Adventures" from the 1990s, there's one series that made a special impression on Ian — and on his parents. In this episode Ian and Matthew talk about PAJAMA SAM.

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Ian leads Matthew through a discussion of some of the best, weirdest, and most subversive kids computer games from the 1990s: the Humongous Entertainment lineup including Freddi Fish, Spyfox, and Backyard Baseball.

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Set a course for adventure, as the IMMP boards the iconic 1970s network titan THE LOVE BOAT.

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We Kept Watching! Ian and Matthew return to Leonard Nimoy and the 1970s investigation show In Search of…, to explore the episodes involving ships and all things nautical. The Titanic, The Bermuda Triangle, and more!

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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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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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In the 1970s a lot of American TV viewers were introduced to Buddhism and martial arts by an unlikely Western series: KUNG FU.

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Jennifer Ogden-Porter (wife of Ian Porter!) joins the IMMP once again, this time to introduce Ian and Matthew to mysteries heretofore unknown to them: The Disney Channel's LIZZIE McGUIRE starring Hilary Duff.

We learn how Lizzie taught Jen how to be a middle school girl — and how those lessons may reach beyond early-2000s TV.

Special Guest: Jennifer Ogden-Porter.

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Our tribute to Leslie Nielsen concludes with the TV series that asked the question -- can the ZAZ comedy style work on television?

Freeze! It's *POLICE SQUAD! *(In Color)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You may know them as SCIENCE NINJA TEAM GATCHAMAN. But middle-schoolers in the 1970s knew them as G-Force from BATTLE OF THE PLANETS!

In this special episode of the Inter-Millennium Media Project podcast, recorded live at Colorado's Nan Desu Kan anime convention, Matthew and Ian discuss the classic anime, its Americanized release in the USA, and how it appealed to a generation of fans.

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A bonus from the IMMP Patreon feed! In this special compaion show to Episode 173 about THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8th DIMENSION, Matthew and Ian explore an amazingly detailed documentary about the making of that weird classic.

It's 2016's INTO THE 8th DIMENSION!

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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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RETURN TO THE PAST NOW! Specifically, return with us to 2003 for a Millennial Strikes Back episode about the French animated kids' sci fi cartoon CODE LYOKO.

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The IMMP takes a break from movies and TV to dip back into music, as Matthew introduces Ian to the dark but poppy science fiction of ELO's 1976 album A NEW WORLD RECORD.

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This week Ian and Matthew talk about a 1980s TV drama about Americans working to survive a fascist takeover.

There are aliens involved, so of course this is entirely science fiction. It's V, the original miniseries from 1983.

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This week Ian and Matthew dive into a cult movie from an alternate universe they really want to visit: THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8th DIMENSION.

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Ian and Matthew finally discuss one of Matthew's favorite novels. Conspiracies, secret histories, and an important question: Was the anti-D&D panic of the 1980s kinda sorta right in a weird way?

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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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Not necessarily a "fun" film this time, but an interesting one to talk about. Matthew and Ian discuss the influential 1971 Clint Eastwood movie about a violent cop versus the rules.

Does the existence of Dirty Harry imply the existence of Clean Harry?

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