Escape Hatch (formerly Dune Pod)

It’s the return of NY Times Bestselling author Dave Itzkoff! He’s firmly established his Escape Hatch beat as gritty New York City movies from the 70s and 80s, so this week he leaves the subway behind for the candlelit drawing rooms of 18th-century Europe, as we FINALLY tackle Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 masterpiece, Barry Lyndon. Plus: the Paramount–Warner Bros. megamerger, Digger’s disastrous opening weekend, and the Lanterns finale.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:14:34)
• Barry Lyndon Roundtable (00:26:25)
• Your Letters (01:20:28)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

After 6 years, we finally have the Voltron style crossover we’ve always dreamed of: Dune Pod x Gom Jabbar! We’re joined by their co-host and producer, Abu Zafar! He’s also the super producer of our beloved sister pod X-Ray Vision. We keep Hot Nolan Summer going with Christopher’s under-rated 2017 war epic, Dunkirk!

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:10:08)
• Dunkirk Roundtable (00:21:44)
• Your Letters (01:03:36)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

Jason drops a bombshell announcement on the podcast! Plus: we talk romantic three-ways with Grok and then keep the romance theme going with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s 3rd outing together, 2010’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. We’re joined by Chief Instigator of Bad Movies, co-host of the X-Ray Vision podcast, Rosie Knight!

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:17:22)
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Roundtable (00:36:20)
• Your Letters (01:19:57)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

It's the return of two of our favorite Lucasfilm friends — ILM's Lorelei David and Lucasfilm Animation's Nico Anastassiou! The SUMMER OF JASON continues with Joel Schumacher's 1987 dark and sexy vampire classic, The Lost Boys.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:23:38)
• The Lost Boys Roundtable (00:26:18)
• Your Letters (01:21:27)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

2 years ago we tried to do Iron Giant, and Haitch crashed his car. This week we tried again, but were blocked by a guest’s shooting schedules. The universe is trying to hold us back, but the SUMMER OF JASON persists, as we pivot to the hilarious and fantastically fun 2023 adventure movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:16:36)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Roundtable (00:26:29)
• Your Letters (01:07:40)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

It’s the return of our scream queen, Senior Editor at FANGORIA and author of First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium, Meredith Borders! The SUMMER OF JASON continues (whereby Jason learns that even I don’t actually get to pick the movies) as we finally cover David Cronenberg's 1986 absolutely disgusting and goopy, body-horror classic, The Fly.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:11:09)
• The Fly Roundtable (00:21:55)
• Your Letters (01:16:01)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

It’s Shark Week on Escape Hatch as we welcome back the director of Sharksploitation, producer of Jodorowsky's Dune, co-host of Best Movies Never Made, Stephen Scarlata. He last joined us with @dale_a for Jaws, and this time we cover ‘the #2 most important shark movie of all time”, LL Cool J’s Deep Blue Sea. Haitch gets rekt for his take.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:11:16)
• Deep Blue Sea Roundtable (00:25:35)
• Your Letters (01:19:01)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

We’re back from our late summer vacation and we're joined by the CEO of Particle News, Sara Beykpour. We catch up on the last 2 weeks with updates on the Democratic Civil War, dispatches from the AI wilds, and why these insufferable tech bros won’t stop being so insufferable. Then, the SUMMER OF JASON continues with Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero epic, The Dark Knight.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:26:06)
• The Dark Knight Roundtable (00:37:57)
• Your Letters (01:25:50)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

Look, when you’re discussing one of most beloved films in the history of cinema, you want to make sure you have your bases covered. So we turned to the man who literally wrote the book (Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), film journalist and author Max Evry.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:19:16)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Roundtable (00:29:38)
• Your Letters (01:37:38)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

The SUMMER OF JASON continues as we finally cover the Coen Brothers' 1991 Hollywood writer’s block nightmare starring John Turturo and John Goodman, Barton Fink. Joining us is the showrunner of Veep, writer/director (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, White House Plumbers) and co-host of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Dave Mandel. We discuss San Diego ComicCon's biggest highlights, DNC missteps, and this fantastic film.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Hatch News (00:23:48)
• Barton Fink Roundtable (00:38:11)
• Your Letters (01:25:22)

Notes and Links

• Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
• Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
• Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!.
• See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
• Escape Hatch’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
• Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
• Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok.
• Music by Scott Fritz and Who’z the Boss Music.
• Cover art by ctcher.
• Edited and produced by Haitch.
• Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.