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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.

This year’s Halloween theme at the Inter-Millennium Media Project surveys more of the Universal movie monster landscape, starting with Boris Karloff in 1932’s THE MUMMY , a tale of love, death, magic, and dangerous jewelry.

Come visit the live television industry of 1954 through the lens of a movie from the 1980s: MY FAVORITE YEAR directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Mark Lin-Baker and Peter O'Toole. Truly a movie for fans of movies!

Recorded live at Nan Desu Kan 2023 in Colorado, this special episode takes on STAR BLAZERS -- the Americanized version of Leiji Matsumoto's SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO , and the object of Matthew's first anime fan geek-outs with his middle school friends, way back in the 1970s. Video version will be on the IMMP YouTube channel soon!

Our 2023 Summer Road Trip season wraps up with a beloved car movie out of Swinging England of 1969: THE ITALIAN JOB !

The IMMP Summer Road Trip continues with a 1977 classic about an intrepid truck driver ( Jerry Reed ), with his buddy ( Burt Reynolds ) and his buddy's sudden new girlfriend ( Sally Field ) hauling bootleg beer one step ahead of the law ( Jackie Gleason ). It's SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT !

Summer is time for road trips. And for the IMMP that starts with the odd, stylish 1976 action comedy THE GUMBALL RALLY .

This week Ian takes over to show Matthew the 2003 direct-to-DVD movie BIONICLE: THE MASK OF LIGHT , which turns into a discussion of all things related to Lego's BIONICLE, a saga that extended beyond the toy line it was created to support.

The IMMP's final Harryhausen Month comes to a close with the final film of Ray Harryhausen's career: the 1981 epic of Greek mythology CLASH OF THE TITANS .

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!

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 .

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 .

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.

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 .

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 .

Just in time for baseball season, Matthew introduced Ian to his favorite baseball movie of all time: THE NATURAL starring Robert Redford.

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 .

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 .