TMBDOS! Episode 240: "The Beast of War" (1988).

Lee and Leah get lost in the vast desert that is the seemingly endless conflict in Afghanistan, as they look at a film that was requested a while back by a listener. This week it's 1988's "The Beast of War", directed by Kevin Reynolds. This bleak and unexpectedly serious tale of a Russian tank on the run from Afghani rebels, during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, contains very little to be light-hearted about. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't watch it. The hosts also talk about what they've watched recently.
"The Beast of War" IMDB 
Featured Music: An excerpt from the score by Mark Isham & "Trolleybus" by Kino.

TMBDOS! Episode 239: "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1942).

Lee and Leah return this episode with a trip back to the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series, taking a look at "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1942), directed by Roy William Neill, picked to be covered by special guest host on this episode, Matt Anderson. Much of the conversation revolves around the otherwise straight-forward plot and the changes made to Holmes after Universal picked up the series from Fox. Is 1940s spy-smasher Holmes a total betrayal to the source material, or is it a cool tweaking of the character? Is Bruce's Dr. Watson unfairly shat upon? Does the series do Dr. Moriarty justice as well? What's with the size of British pound notes? Also, Matt gets to play the Movie God Game, and the hosts all talk about what they've watched as of late in a slightly longer episode than usual.
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"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" IMDB
Featured Music: "Rule Britannia" by Thomas Augustine Arne & "Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves)" by Juventino Rosas.

Cape Sh!t Episode 15: "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (2017).

Lee, Kerry, Greg and Leah are finally back to talk more outer space super hero stuff with James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2" (2017). This lively and sometimes argumentative discussion gets into some of the deeper psychology of family dynamics, in what's otherwise a silly action film full of daffy jokes.
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2" IMDB 
Featured Music: "Fox on the Run" by Sweet.

Blood on the Tracks Episode 47: The Atomic 1950s.

The Atomic age is upon Blood on the Tracks this month as all sorts of strange radiation-born monsters are invading the perfect utopia that was the 1950s *cough-cough*. Anyway, it was a great decade to be a sci-fi and horror fan, and it was a decade that produced a lot of great film scores. Lee curates a playlist that reflects some of the best examples of this fact, in his opinion.
--Main Title from "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953) --David Buttolph--Main Title & Fury of Godzilla from "Godzilla" (1954) --Akira Ifukube--Blasted Arachnid from "Tarantula" (1955) --Henry Mancini & Herman Stein--Suite from "Beginning of the End" (1957) --Albert Glasser--Orchestral Suite 8 from "The Amazing Colossal Man" (1957) --Albert Glasser--Main Title from "Attack of the Crab Monsters" (1957) --Ronald Stein--Homura Club - Background Music #1 from "The H-Man" (1958) --Masaru Satoh--Main Titles & End Titles from "Fiend Without a Face" (1958) --Buxton Orr--Suite from "The Atomic Submarine" (1959) -- Alexander Laszlo
Opening and closing music: Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) from "Sorcerer" by Tangerine Dream, and My Name & The Departure from "Shanghai Joe" by Bruno Nicolai.