They Must Be Destroyed On Sight!
2021-12
Episodes
Friday Dec 24, 2021
TMBDOS! Intermission #37: ”The Astounding She-Monster” (1957).
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Lee & Paul are back together to cover the Z-grade sci-fi film "The Astounding She-Monster" (1957), directed by Ronald V. Ashcroft. This semi-forgotten, low-budget shlock about a sexy radioactive space alien has some interesting aspects to it, including the possibility of the titular star, Shirley Kilpatrick, faking her death to make a better film career for herself as Shirley Stoler! Don't touch this podcast, just listen to it at a safe distance!
The Astounding She-Monster IMDB
Featured Music: "Radioactive Mama" by Sheldon Allman & "My Girl is Like Uramium" by The Radium Cats.
Monday Dec 20, 2021
TMBDOS! Episode 247: ”Sneakers” (1992).
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
This week Daniel returns (!) to join Lee as they welcome friend and fellow podcaster Bo Ransdell, in order to have a quite meaty conversation about Phil Alden Robinson's "Sneakers" (1992), starring Robert Redford & Ben Kingsley. Things covered: old school hacking talk, and what the film gets right and wrong about it; the wonderful ensemble cast elevating the material; the politics behind the film; the comparisons to the 1970s paranoid thrillers this film draws from; the still-unmade tv series, and if that would even be a good idea to do, especially today. Also, Bo gets to play The Movie God Game, and Lee and Bo talk about what they've watched lately. Listen to this one by planting a bug, spying with a camera, or patching into a satellite. We don't care how you listen, just that you do!
"Sneakers" IMDB
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Featured Music: "The Girl from Ipanema" by Charlie Byrd & "Main Title" by James Horner.
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
TMBDOS! Intermission #36: ”The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” (1953).
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
In this latest Intermission episode Lee and Leah are back together to talk about one of the first (if not the actual first) atomic monster films from the 1950s, "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), directed by Eugène Lourié. Much of the conversation revolves around the fantastic Ray Harryhausen special effects work and if the rest of the movie manages to live up to that. How is this both not based on a Ray Bradbury story, but kind of is at the same time? What the hell is Lee Van Cleef doing here? Why does Leah's cat keep butting in on the recording? All this and more. Listen before the Rhedosaurus destroys the podcast like it was some lighthouse or a diving bell!
"The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" IMDB.
Featured Music: "Main Title" & "Monster Does Manhatten" by David Buttolph.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Blood on the Tracks Episode 50: Music from Recent Watches.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
In this episode Lee takes a slightly different route. This time out it's a playlist pulled from the soundtrack and scores of recent watches by Lee over the last few months.
--Windsor Concerto from "The Whip and the Body" (1963) --Carlo Rustichelli--Main Theme from "Kill, Baby... Kill!" (1966) --Carlo Rustichelli--Bank Robbery & Last of the Independents from "Charley Varrick" (1973) --Lalo Schifrin--Underwater from "Female Trouble" (1974) --The Frogmen--Main Theme from "Female Trouble" (1974) --Divine & Bob Harvey--The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 from "Cisco Pike" (1971) --Kris Kristofferson--Combat Drop & Ripley's Rescue from "Aliens" (1986) --James Horner--Here in the Darkness from "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama" (1988) --Greg Stone--All Out of Bubblegum & Wake Up from "They Live" (1988) --John Carpenter & Alan Howarth--The Breakup Song from "Let Me In" (2010) --The Greg Kihn Band--So Busted from "The Suicide Squad" (2021) --Culture Abuse
Opening and closing music: Magic and Ecstasy from "Exorcist II: The Heretic" by Ennio Morricone, and The Shadow of the Killer from "Death Rage" by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis.