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In the year 1968, Stanley Kubrick offered a vision of what life would be like in the year 2001. And that vision was "very bright, very glossy, very high tech, very trippy." This week the IMMP addresses 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY .

From our Patreon bonus feed: We followed our recent reading of the novel DUNE with a special Something New To Watch show about the Denis Villeneuve movie. Hope you enjoy!

Mystery and romance with some "will they or won't they?" tension. There was a lot of that in 80s TV. Where did it start? Some would say right here, with Pierce Bronson and Stephanie Zimbalist starring in REMINGTON STEELE .

There are so many James Bond movies to choose from, so we decided to start with the first one Matthew saw in a theater: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME starring Roger Moore as James Bond 007.

Continuing the Spooky Castle theme begun with DRACULA, the podcast looks at a unique, surreal French film that is simultaneousy weird, creepy and romantic. It's Jean Cocteau's 1946 film LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Beauty and the Beast).

He had style, he had game, and he was starting a new life in England. Well, except for the "life" part. IMMP's Halloween 2021 kicks off with the first of the legendary Universal monster movies: DRACULA starring Bela Lugosi.

Ten thousand years in the future, as a galactic empire is wracked by conflict over control of the most precious resource in the universe, grownups and teenagers still fail to understand one another. Yes, there's more to it. Find out just how much as Ian and Matthew discuss Frank Herbert's science fiction masterpiece, DUNE .

This 1977 movie gave us mysterious visitations, government cover-ups, a sense of wonder, and the template for 1980s Spielberg. Ian and Matthew talk about CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND .

Science fairs are fun. Wouldn't they be more fun with working nuclear weapons? John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon and John Mahoney find out in 1986's THE MANHATTAN PROJECT .

Following up on Wargames, Ian and Matthew talk about a 1970 movie in which a scientist creates a supercomputer to protect mankind from nuclear war -- and succeeds! Sounds happy, doesn't it? It's not. It's COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT.

DON'T TAKE THE MEN OUT OF THE PODCAST LOOP. Instead listen to Ian and Matthew talk about 1983's WARGAMES starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin.

POKÉMON 3: THE MOVIE . Or POKÉMON THE MOVIE 3 . Or SPELL OF THE UNOWN: ENTEI . Or... listen, this movie has a lot of titles. But we’re here to find out what it meant to Ian, and why. And does it still hold up?

Harryhausen Month continues with a look at two of his more concrete sci fi movies: EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS and 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH .

June is Ray Harryhausen Month! Ian and Matthew celebrate Ray Harryhausen's 101st birthday with a look at two of his earliest movies: THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA.

H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror gets a 70s-hippie-sex-magic take in this Roger Corman-produced version of THE DUNWICH HORROR .

Matthew has shown Ian Bill Murray in Stripes . And Bill Murray in Ghostbusters . And now, Bill Murray in ... an adaptation of a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It's finally time for Ian to learn his Dad's complicated relationship with The Razor's Edge.

Matthew was enthralled by the film when it premiered in 1984, but Ian has never known a world without GHOSTBUSTERS and the sprawling franchise it launched. How will this affect the spirit in which they view the original movie?

Some say love is destined to transcend the bounds of time. How about a movie? What will Ian think of Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer in the 1980 time travel romance SOMEWHERE IN TIME ?

Andy Griffith has played a lot of roles, but to Matthew he'll always be Harry Broderick, the junk man with dreams of the moon in 1979's SALVAGE 1 .

Last episode, Matthew introduced Ian to the album STOP MAKING SENSE by Talking Heads. Now it's time to complete the picture with full the concert film.

A groundbreaking album from the groundbreaking movie by a groundbreaking band. With so much broken ground, will Matthew have a place to stand as he introduces this to Ian?

Long before Wandavision gave us its take on a magical being trying to make a home in the American suburbs, viewers were entertained by Wanda and Vision's forebears, Darrin and Samantha Stevens of Bewitched . In this episode of the IMMP Matthew introduces Ian to the show, and Ian powers through his allergy to sitcoms long enough to dive way too deeply into its magic system, where he finds dark nugg...

Matthew and Ian discuss the original 1986 movie that assured us There Can Be Only One .

This TV movie from 1978 introduces Dr. Stephen Strange, a psychiatrist (?!) who learns he has a destiny in a magical war for the fate of humanity. Marvel did some peculiar things back in the 70s.

In the 1970s, the early days of the big-budget movie blockbuster, a lot of hopes and dollars went into this movie version of SUPERMAN directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve.