Lee is joined by fellow podcasters Matt and Vaughn to cover Arthur Marks' "Bucktown" (1975), starring Fred Williamson, Thalmus Rasulala, and Pam Grier. Is this a hidden Blaxploitation gem? Also, the co-hosts get to play a new trivia game: BEYOND BELIEF: MOVIE FACT OR FICTION, and everyone talks about what they watched as of late.

"Bucktown" IMDB 

Check out Matt at Movie Melt. 

Check out Vaughn at Motion Picture Massacre. 

Featured Music: "Main Theme" & "End Theme" by Johnny Pate.

Lee tries to start off 2025 on a positive note with a playlist from everyone's favourite Italian brother duo, Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. If you're counting, this is the fourth time Lee has done a show covering the work of the prolific brothers (search the archives on Podbean for parts 1-3), be it under their names, Oliver Onions, or some of the lesser known pseudonyms they've used over the decades. In many cases, this list features instrumental versions of songs Lee has used in previous episodes, and Lee does much less talking than in previous installments of this series. This makes for an easier episode to put together for Lee, and more music for you the listener. It's like you won a new shiny red dune buggy!

--Across the Fields & Dune Buggy (Instrumental) from "Watch Out, We're Mad!" (1974)

Opening and closing music: Theme from Slaughter from "Slaughter" by Billy Preston, and Too Risky a Day for a Regatta from "Tentacles" by Stelvio Cipriani.

Lee and guest host Matt Anderson leave no stone unturned as they talk about the oddball 1950s sci-fi/disaster film "The Monolith Monsters" (1957), directed by John Sherwood. How can rocks that grow be all that scary? Does the film manage to sell that idea? The hosts talk a lot about how effective this low budget film is, and the people behind it, including the influence of genre king Jack Arnold. A lot of ground is covered in this one. The hosts also talk about what they've watched as of late. Be thankful Papa was a rolling stone and not an alien one, and come take a listen as to why that is!

"The Monolith Monsters" IMDB 

Check out Matt at:

The Mighty Peculiar 

The Bloodybits Horror Show 

On Bluesky 

Featured Music: "Main Title" from The Monolith Monsters by Irving Gertz & "I'll Turn to Stone" by The Supremes.

Lee is joined this week by friends and previous guests Wick and Robby to cover the overlooked gem "The Matador" (2005), directed by Richard Shepard, and starring a post-Bond Pierce Brosnan, who is doing his best to shake off that Bond type-casting. The hosts do a fairly deep dive into a surprising character piece, that feels like it was marketed as a crazy Guy Ritchie-type crime/spy film. The hosts also cover what they've watched recently.

"The Matador" IMDB

Check out Wick's artwork on his Instagram.

Featured Music: "Town Called Malice" by The Jam & "1, 2, 3, 4" by TITAN.

Lee and Daniel are joined by friends and past guests Nick and Greg to talk about Russell Mulcahy's "Highlander" (1986), starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. Bad accents; excellent visuals; confusing lore; Michael Ironside with a mullet; and a legacy of a franchise with fantastic highs and bottom of the barrel lows are things that are talked about, along with a ton of other asides, including the soundtrack and dead media formats zoomers might not know about. The hosts also talk about what they've been watching as of late. There can be only one podcast about Highlander. Actually, that's not true, but at least this is one of them.

"Highlander" IMDB 

Daniel's other show, I Don't Speak German 

Daniel on Bluesky 

Nick's YouTube 

Featured Music: "Victor Kruger" by Michael Kamen & "Princes of the Universe" by Queen.

2024 has come and gone. Lee and Leah are together for the first TMBDOS! of 2025 to talk about their best and worst first-time watches during the past year. Lee also has some honourable mentions to get through as well. Of note, this episode was recorded during a live stream, so there's some brief moments where the hosts are interacting with the chat as well. It made for a long but fun show!

Lee's Honourable Mentions:

6. "Strange Darling" (2023)

Leah's Best-of:

10. "Safe" (2012)

Lee's Best-of:

10. "Love Lies Bleeding" (2024)

Leah's Worst-of:

9. "The Misfits" (2021)

Lee's Worst-of:

9. "The Sea Serpent" (1985)

Featured Music:

Excerpts from "Gonna Fly Now" by Bill Conti; "Tell Me Something Good" by Chaka Khan & Rufus; & "You're the Best" by Joe Esposito.

"The Silent Screen" & "At the Movies" by Hot Butter, and "In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" by Zager & Evans.

Lee finally broke down and did the obvious for the Christmas season, and built a playlist featuring movies set during the Christmas season. This time out they all happen to be from movies in the 1980s, and mostly Christmas horror. Of course, due to the release schedule of this podcast, it's a few days late. Ho, ho, ho.

--Suite from "Christmas Evil" (1980) --Don Christenson, Joel Harris, & Julia Heywood

Opening and closing music: Theme from Slaughter from "Slaughter" by Billy Preston, and Too Risky a Day for a Regatta from "Tentacles" by Stelvio Cipriani.

It's the Christmas episode of TMBDOS! (which HAS NOT DIED!) where Lee and Lady Leah talk about a film they've been watching every December together for a few years now, "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992); of course adapting the famous Charles Dickens story, and directed by Brian Henson. Things brought up include the underlying sadness and darkness in this kids/family film; how good of an adaptation this is; the performance of Michael Caine as Scrooge; as well as the wonderful music and production design. The hosts also talk about what they've watched as of late; and hey, we mention the fact that TMBDOS! is now ten years old!

"The Muppet Christmas Carol" IMDB 

Featured Music: "Overture" by Miles Goodman & Paul Williams; "Marley & Marley" & "Scrooge" by Paul Williams.

The year is almost done, and Lee has some early stocking-stuffers for your in the form of short reviews of recent watches, as well as an update on the state of the podcast.

Featured Music: "Just Chili" by Dave and the One-Ways & "Neon Slime" by Wings Hauser.

Lee comes back this month with a collection of odds and ends for the playlist, reflective of what he's been watching the last two months. Mostly it's music from his 31 Days of Horror watching, but there's a few non-horror selections from November.

--My Own Robot from "The Swamp of the Ravens" (1974) --Joaquín Torres

Opening and closing music: Theme from Slaughter from "Slaughter" by Billy Preston, and Too Risky a Day for a Regatta from "Tentacles" by Stelvio Cipriani.