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For the IMMP's 150th episode, we revel in what may be Ian and Matthew's shared favorite movie: John Carpenter's incomparable BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA .

Ian takes over to teach Matthew how to play MAGIC: THE GATHERING , to talk about how what the classic Collectible Card Came means to him, and to discuss how it opens up new ways to tell and appreciate stories. For a recording of the live stream where Ian and Matthew play Magic and open some card packs, see the IMMProject YouTube channel! (Links in show notes may include affiliate links which help...

Upcoming live stream! On July 10 at 10 PM Eastern / 8 PM Mountain, Ian will teach Matthew to play MAGIC: THE GATHERING live on YouTube. Join us here: https://youtube.com/live/HinZiYo-QYA?feature=share

The 2024 Summer Road Trip continues through post-apocalypse Australia...without highways? And mainly without cars? It's a strange parable of civilizations and the stories they tell themselves. It's MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME .

The IMMP Summer Road Trip continues with the story of a heroic gyro copter pilot. And some guy named Max. It's THE ROAD WARRIOR.

The IMMP 2024 Summer Road Trip starts off on the deadly highways of Australia with George Miller and Byron Kennedy's original MAD MAX from 1979. Ian and Matthew talk about heroes, antiheroes, mythology, and a romcom prequel "Rockatansky & Jess."

Back In 1968, Charlton Heston played a misanthropic space commander who journeyed to a world free of human bureaucrats....but not free of bureaucracy! It's PLANET OF THE APES .

Back in 1979 Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon and an intrepid crew encountered a terrifying unknown entity and influenced decades of science fiction cinema. And Matthew became a seventh grade hero for seeing it on opening night.

Way back in 1971, when the Apollo program was still cool, a TV pilot imagined a techno-utopia in orbit. Governed by D&D. It's EARTH II .

It's almost Founder's Day at Antonio Bay, so the IMMP celebrates by rolling into John Carpenter's 1980 movie THE FOG .

Now that we've talked about Leonard Nimoy as host of IN SEARCH OF... , it's finally time for the IMMP to discuss the dramatic action-adventure series whose ensemble included Leonard Nimoy, years earlier. It premiered in 1966, and while it had fans from the very start it exploded in popularity in the years that followed. It came back in the 1980s with a revival series, and also gave rise to a long-...

In the 1970s, kids interested in paranormal weirdness received an amazing new cornucopia of ...well, lots of stuff. It was IN SEARCH OF ... hosted by Leonard Nimoy.

Is the Weirding Module code for Transcendental Meditation? Was Kyle MacLachlan way too old to portray Paul Atreides? Did the Guild Navigator really need that guy with the shop vac? Ian and Matthew discuss these questions and more after a trip to the Alamo Drafthouse to see David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's DUNE .

Melodrama month continues with 1942's NOW, VOYAGER . Bette Davis and Paul Henreid star in a saga of metal health, personal transformation, and really, really bad parenting.

Before THE CELESTINE PROPHECY...before THE SECRET...before female characters had agency?...there was...John M. Stahl's 1935 film MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.

An epic American quest of danger and self-discovery through the mythic land of Chicago. The IMMP looks at 1987's ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING .

Ian takes over podcast and reaches into the world of computer games for a discussion of one of the most formative media properties of his life: MYST .

Christmas 2023 at the IMMP wraps up with one of the weirdest of all Rankin/Bass Christmas specials: THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS . Listen for tales of elemental magic with the Miser Brothers, the terrible power of Mother Nature, and speculation about the abyssal Lovecraftian horrors that lurk in Santa Claus' dreams.

The IMMP Rankin Bass Christmas continues with the sprawling Santa Claus fanfic SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN . Which leads in turn to talk of Adventure Time, creepy 70s musical numbers, and a Game of Thrones for Sombertown.

We kick off the holiday season at the IMMP with a Rankin/Bass Christmas classic: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER . And some detours into human (and elf) dignity, identity, the biology and diet of Abominable Snow Monsters, and psychotherapy for toys.

It's a little early for New Year's, but never too early for an Irwin Allen disaster movie like 1972's THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE .

One final Halloween treat for 2023. This is a discussion from the Patron feed, and from the Drafthouse Diary video series, about the 1931 Spanish version of DRACULA starring Carlos Villarías and Lupita Tovar.

Ian and Matthew close out Halloween 2023 with another Universal monster movie: the psychological mystery of THE WOLF MAN . But they can't help themselves from also arguing some more about THE INVISIBLE MAN, and whether any Universal monster movies really have a hero at all. Except for Van Helsing in DRACULA. Professor Van Helsing remains awesome.

At long last, Ian and Matthew have seen a mysterious, legendary part of the Sid and Marty Krofft universe: THE LOST ISLAND . It’s a mash-up of Lidsville, Land of the Lost, H.R. Pufnstuff, and more, and appeared as a segment of the Krofft Superstar Hour hosted by the Bay City Rollers!

Halloween season 2023 continues at the IMMP as Ian and Matthew watched (well, sort of watched?) Claude Rains in Universal's 1933 THE INVISIBLE MAN . WARNING: Includes a very nerdy digression about hidden movement boardgames.