
Escape Hatch (formerly Dune Pod)
Your portal into cinematic pocket universes, fostering community far from the digital chaos. Join co-hosts Haitch and Jason as we welcome special guests and talk about their favorite movies. We love the genre films that inspired the creation of this show, but we talk about all kinds of movies. Just look at our episodes, choose your favorite movie, and dive right in!
Latest episodes

Jul 26, 2021 • 1h 19min
Labyrinth (1986)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by musician, producer, and DJ to the stars Daisy O’Dell. We discuss Jim Henson, George Lucas, Jennifer Conolly, and David Bowie’s 1986 fantasy masterpiece, Labyrinth. We cover the importance of representation, give a primer on Bowie’s career, and Daisy breaks down how this film affected a generation of young women in the 80s.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:04:47)
Roundtable Discussion (00:09:45)
Your Letters (01:11:49)
Notes and Links
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jul 22, 2021 • 59min
IMAX Dune Premiere Reaction (2021)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by co-host of the 70mm podcast, and famous artist Danny Haas. We’ve seen the first 10 minutes of Dune, another pivotal scene from the film, and behind the scenes interviews with Denis, Hans, and the whole cast of the film. We also had the opportunity to make some new friends at the San Francisco screening, and include some in line interviews with fellow dune heads. It was a great day.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Roundtable Discussion (00:01:14)
Your Letters (00:55:03)
Notes and Links
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jul 19, 2021 • 1h 31min
Time Bandits (1981)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by podcasting legend and host of Sword & Laser, Veronica Belmont. We discuss Terry Gilliam’s 1981 classic sci-fi/fantasy film, Time Bandits. We cover the struggle between seemingly all powerful beings, try to figure out what Gilliam’s problem is with wrapped plastic, and Veronica sings! Twice.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:48)
Roundtable Discussion (00:18:26)
Your Letters (01:12:35)
Notes and Links
Free IMAX Preview on Wednesday 7/21! Jason and Haitch will be at the Metreon in SF to meetup with other Duneheads, and then we’ll drop an emergency pod on Thursday.
Runtime definitely confirmed! Maybe! Johnny Sobczak had the scoop: per Denmark, 155 minutes (2 hours, 35 minutes). Read more here.
Timmy & Tilda Rock Cannes! There with Wes Anderson for The French Dispatch. They looked amazing!
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. New members this week: eli.show, Ogrover, DnHorgn, Edan Carr, Zakal, KeithJF82, MattC, Piasma TBird, and Brother Mark! Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jul 12, 2021 • 1h 14min
Good Will Hunting (1997)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by comicbook writer and artist, MikeyP. We discuss the amazing behind the scenes story of making this film, exceptional achievements in accent work, and just how much we ache over losing Robin Williams.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Roundtable Discussion (00:09:45)
Your Letters (01:12:13)
Notes and Links
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jul 5, 2021 • 1h 14min
WarGames (1983)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by 3 time superstar return guest and Managing Editor of Fangoria Magazine, Meredith Borders. We discuss Matthew Broderick’s star making performance in the hacker, Cold War thriller, WarGames. We cover the secret, hacker history of the making of WarGames, the relevance of game theory, and how much we still love Ally Sheedy.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:04:46)
Roundtable Discussion (00:06:36)
Outro (01:08:40)
Notes and Links
Read the WarGames oral history. Much of the behind the scenes details that Meredith brought us comes from investigation and identification of a great Wired magazine article from 2008.
City Acre Brewing. Meredith is one of the owner/operators of an amazing brewpub in Houston, TX.
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jun 28, 2021 • 1h 23min
Incendies (2010)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Dune Pod graphic designer and co-host the Cinenauts podcast, Ctcher. We discuss Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar nominated, breakout final Canadian feature film, Incendies. We cover the stark beauty Denis captured in the Jordanian desert, the dangers of war and sectarian violence, and how to properly respond to a potential bear attack.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:57)
Roundtable Discussion (00:11:57)
Your Letters (01:13:40)
Notes and Links
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jun 21, 2021 • 1h 25min
Heretics of Dune (1981)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by spiritual advisor, Protolexus. We discuss the penultimate book in the series, Heretics of Dune. We cover profit as a motive for creating art, a return to actual worldbuilding in the series, and what the actual fuck was going on with including literal Sex Duels in this book.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:08:26)
Roundtable Discussion (00:10:45)
Your Letters (01:14:48)
Notes and Links
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jun 14, 2021 • 1h 14min
Inherent Vice (2014)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the co-host, producer, and editor of the 70mm Podcast, Slim. We discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s bizarre paranoia noir, Inherent Vice, starring Dune (2021)’s Josh Brolin. We cover the importance of good hygeine, how the current era has us on edge, and debate appropriate drug use.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:56)
Roundtable Discussion (00:12:22)
Your Letters (01:04:09)
Notes and Links
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Jun 7, 2021 • 1h 14min
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by co-host of the 70mm Podcast SLASH famous artist, Danny Haas. We discuss the other seminal, ecological sci-fi masterpiece, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. We cover the power of art, the interconnectedness of nature, and how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:45)
Roundtable Discussion (00:10:55)
Your Letters (01:03:25)
Notes and Links
Check out Danny’s Ferris Bueler Art Print. See the work Danny did for the John Hughes Exhibit here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 31, 2021 • 1h 16min
I Love You to Death
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by cartoonist and co-host of the Film Hags podcast, Melissa Mendes. We discuss the 1990 dark comedy starring Keanu, River Phoenix, Kevin Kline, Tracy Ullman, and William Hurt, I Love You to Death. We cover monogamy in long term relationships, the appeal of true crime, and the enduring legacy of religion in our lives.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:08:38)
Roundtable Discussion (00:18:48)
Your Letters (01:05:24)
Notes and Links
Check out Mel’s webiste. On the site, you can read her comics and buy here artwork. Check it out at mmmendes.com
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’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 letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries