The Escape Pod!

PSA: Listen to this episode but maybe don't bother watching the movie Countdown?

Ryen and Nathan discuss 1967's Space Race yawnfest "Countdown" directed by seven-time Oscar nominated director Robert Altman's. This film stars James Caan and Robert Duvall and contains as much entertainment as it does cross-talk.

Happy Halloween! Join Ryen and Nathan as they watch John Carpenter's 1982 horror/sci-fi film: "The Thing!". Staring Kurt Russell. Music by Ennio Morricone. Antarctica!

t h e s p i c e. Join us as we review Dune, David Attenborough's policy changing documentary about the worms of Arrakis. Sounds boring? It's not! Better understand the science of lactation, genetic engineering and biogerontology now on The Escape Pod!

Coming up this season!!!

Millennium, 1989

Dune, 1984

Countdown, 1967

Space Hunter, 1983

World on a Wire Part 1 , 1973

World on a Wire Part 2, 1973

Predator 2, 1990

The grooviest time traveler from .... the 80's, finds himself unfrozen 500 years later in the midst of a shady trade alliance between super square future Earth & a Draconian alien Empire. But does he still have the moves? This week in the Escape Pod! Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Content warning: Brief mentions of sexual assault portrayed in the film.

WE'RE BACK!!!

Arnold is in all his 1987 glory along side Richard Dawson as his evilest gnaeshow host version of himself & Venesualan Diva Maria Conchita Alonso.

Arnold & Maria are running for their lives in a dystopian gameshow nightmare, when the could have just gone to Hawaii.

This week in the Escape Pod! is 1987's The Running Man.

Chuck Heston's acting gets a lift from Edward G Robinson as they attempt to uncover the most diabolical secret ever kept from a society that really couldn't care less. 1973's Soylent Green.

Pilot podcast episode... To stretch our legs we review the classic Battlestar Galactica episode containing way too many children and not enough unicorns: "The Young Lords". We poke fun, and reminisce.

You should listen to this episode. Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Space 1999, Dragon's Domain.

Dan O'bannon finds his way back into the Escape Pod! with this tale of a hapless kid & a bunch of even more hapless adults battling Martians in a sand pit. They've come for our...copper???

In 1984 the fastest computer in the world was used to render polygons for 12 minutes of computer animation. More ambitious than TRON, and less appreciated, this film will someday be used down at the local outlet malls as a recruitment tool for the U.S. Space Force. It's 1984's science fiction film, "The Last Star Fighter"!

The Littlest Libowski gets scanned through the digital looking glass

to fight fascism, corporate control, restore net-neutrality & play some video games while he's at it. Join us as we review the 1982 Disney classic TRON! Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man!

A space hippie & his drones will do anything to ensure the survival

of their precious ecological cargo.... even MURDER? Join us as we review 1972's Silent Running.

Three 1970s longhaired lumberjack truck drivers blow up planets between getting on each other's nerves while a dead captain can't remember that thing he was thinking about. It's a John Carpenter film! Join us as we review 1974's Dark Star; the first film to use stretched out lines from stars around a spacecraft to indicate a hyperspace jump. Surf's up!

A hard boiled Dept. of Health Inspector in groovy late-70's San Francisco gets caught up in an invasion of space plants, paranoia, conspiracy, creepy Nimoy, full force Goldbloom, is there any hope for humanity??? 

Join us in the Escape Pod! as we discuss the 1978 remake: "Invation of the Body Snatchers", staring Brooke Adams, Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy.