I survived 11 years only getting partially spoiled - but not in a way that ruined my viewing - for my first viewing of the thriller masterpiece from David Fincher, Ben Affleck, and Rosamund Pike, 2014’s Gone Girl. Joining us to discuss is the mighty co-host of the X-Ray Vision podcast, Rosie Knight.
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How can you tell we refuse to let go of Andor? Well, I found a way to include a clip of Diego Luna speaking in Spanish in this episode. Plus, we continue our Tony Gilroy journey with The Bourne Supremacy! We are blessed by the return of the Senior Editor of Engadget and co-host of The Filmcast, Devindra Hardawar.
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It’s the return of the 3rd living host of Escape Hatch, co-host of the Twin Vipers podcast, Jonesy Loves Beer. He and Jason talk for about an hour about knives and axes and then we talk about watching my first Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie, Goldeneye!
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Did you miss us? We’re back with vacation 2025 talk, including New York Meetups, Disney mayhem, the dangers of cross body bags, and adventures in home theater troubleshooting. Then we welcome Former Congressman and Lt. Governor of the great state of New York, Antonio Delgado! He joins us to tell us why he’s running for Governor of New York, and we finally cover Spike Lee’s 1989’s masterpiece, Do the Right Thing!
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Can you believe we’re still on Summer Vacation 2025 Break? WTH? To tide you over, we catch up on what we’ve been up to and what we’re excited about. Then we present a CLASSIC Dune Pod episode from our vault. We go all the way back to 2022, when Ian de Borja joined us to talk about his beloved A24 horror classic Midsommar. Do not miss this one (if you haven’t already missed it.) LOVE YOU - we’ll be back next week!!
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We kick off our Summer Vacation 2025 Break with a discussion of how our holidays are going so far, AV studio updates, what are kids are up to, and quick political recap (SPOILER: it’s not going great.) Then we present a classic episode from our vault, on the heels of its 50th Anniversary, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Joining us for this all time discussion is the co-host of the Bat and Spider podcast, dale_a and the producer of Jodorowsky’s Dune and the director of the Sharksploitation documentary, Stephen Scarlata! LOVE YOU!
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This week, Jason is out on assignment, but we welcome our very own scream queen, senior editor of Fangoria magazine, Meredith Borders! We kick off summer with the 1978 classic Hollywood musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, Grease!
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We welcome back dear friend of the pod, showrunner of Veep and co-host of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Dave Mandel. We finally cover the first sequel to match (or surpass) it’s predecessor, The Godfather Part II! PS. Riverside ate our Letters Segment. Join our Patreon to hear it in the UNCUT version of the episode!
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It’s the return of Escape Hatch projectionist Silly Oswald. We cover the highest rated movie on Letterboxd, 1962’s Japanese samurai classic, Harakiri.
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History in the making! We welcome the creator of the hit underground zine Skree, Corey and the co-host of Bat and Spider, dale_a. We FINALLY get down with the sickness that is David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
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He has returned! We welcome back the co-host of Data Over Dogma and author of The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues, Dan McClellan! Dan’s a huge comic fan and while we will come back to classic Bible movies with him in the future, today we finally tackle one of the biggest of the big in superhero cinema, 1978’s Superman.DISCLAIMER: Jason’s takes expressed during this episode are bad and do not reflect the positions of Haitch Industries or its subsidiary divisions. Thank you.
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We welcome veteran TV director of shows including House of the Dragon, Presumed Innocent, Your Friends and Neighbors, Lucky, and the upcoming Spider-Noir, Greg Yaitanes. We tackle Bob Fosse’s drug and dance fueled classic starring Roy Scheider, All That Jazz!
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We refuse to accept that our Andor era is over. Fortunately, we have one of our Akira Kurosawa masters, MikeyP joining us to talk Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping caper masterpiece, High and Low!
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We go back to the ending, where our Andor journey first began, as we revisit the pinnacle of the modern Star Wars cinematic universe, Rogue One.
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The death of the Resistance…and the birth of the Rebellion.
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It’s the triumphant return of the showrunner of House of the Dragon and co-host of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Ryan Condal! We take out our binoculars and telephoto lens to cover our very first ever Hitchcock film, Rear Window.
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Shit is getting very very real on Andor Season 2. We have huge climactic payoffs of 4 year running storylines, massive boiling pots of tension over these 3 episodes, and events that change the show forever. Only 1 movie left!
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EPISODE 250. JASON CONCEPCION. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. THE GREATEST LETTERS SEGMENT IN THE HISTORY OF PODCASTS. MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU.
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OK. After a somewhat uneven start with last week’s episodes that included the challenging adventures on Planet F#%kup, Tony Gilroy and the Andor crew are COOKING now with this second batch of episodes. Another year has passed and the forces of the rebellion and the Empire are being drawn inexorably into a simmering conflict on the planet Ghorman. Cassian will find his loyalty to Luthen tested and not everyone will make it out from this next dangerous phase of this battle.
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At long last, it’s the return of the Senior Editor of Fangoria magazine, Meredith Borders. She has long held the Escape Hatch Eighties Fantasy Chair, and from that perch she shares her love for the 1982 animated classic The Last Unicorn.
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