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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Keith David rocketing up my all time watched, great to see all of the pod subjects taking up the top 8 slots (with Dano dropping to 12th through sheer lack of comparative filmography) Getting Dafoe out the top ten was no easy feat!

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 14/09/2026

‘SHŌGUN’ Season 2 has wrapped filming. • Set 10 years after the first season • Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis will reprise their roles

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Daryl: Part One @hotdonkeybear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NowWatching The Nice Guys (2016) for podcast reasons. Also, it’s a great film. Double Also… it irks me there’s no sequels

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Spocklight @spocklightpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEW EPISODE ALERT 🖖 To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek, the Spocklight crew journeyed along the Star Trek trail at the Science Museum and review the experience, followed by giving our thoughts on the Trek panels at Comic-Con this year. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Matt Brothers @mattbrothers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Awaiting the #LFF lineup announcement. Hoping for Bunker for some Dano representation.

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Spocklight @spocklightpod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NEW EPISODE ALERT 🖖🚨 The Spocklight crew enlist in Starfleet Academy but will we make it to graduation or be begging to be expelled as soon as possible. Listen now at the link or wherever you catch your podcasts to find out: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August 31st/September 1st

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thrilled to reveal the subject of our next season will be... Keith David! A mainstay of our longlist, we're excited to dive into the man's 400+ (!) acting credits and experience as much of his body of work as possible. A true 'I know that face/that voice' guy and absolutely perfect for this show.

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BONUS: The Leftovers We re-assemble the Dowd Duo once more to discuss the critically acclaimed HBO drama with Dowd as another figurehead of a cult. We chat Lindelof, jacked Theroux and the show's tackling of grief, belief and the unknowable Out now #wellanndowd #theleftovers

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Elsewhere in this week's episode, we chat a smattering of Dowd TV (The Babysitter's Club, Days & Nights of Molly Dodd, NYPD Blue, Judging Amy) as well as the only theatrical franchise she's been a mainstay of... a trilogy of dog starring family flicks called Shiloh Out now tinyurl.com/wadmspotify

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

13.08 Mass (2021) We reach our season finale as writer/director/actor @jessrolland.bsky.social returns to chat microbudget filmmaking, conversational movies, Dowd's powerhouse part of the ensemble and how this bleak drama asks us to consider the human beings behind tragedies. Out now #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Lots of Dowd goodness this week as we chat Gimme Shelter, Family Squares and a whole host of TV: First Steps, Masters of Sex, Providence, Third Watch, Pan Am, Hacks, The Divide, Law and Order and more! All this in our #Hereditary episode, out now tinyurl.com/wadhspotify

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

13.07 Hereditary (2018) We summon evil forces with @blsaycewrites.bsky.social as we chat explorations of grief in horror, how Ari Aster shoots dread, toying with dramatic expectations, Toni Collette's mesmerising turn and how Ann Dowd is the scariest thing in this whole movie Out now! #hereditary

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Spocklight @spocklightpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NEW EPISODE ALERT 🖖 Following the final season of The Boys, starring Star Trek alumni, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, and Simon Pegg, Liam+Matt are joined by Eleanor from the Bygones Podcast to discuss the series, its political impact+the Trek connections. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Alongside #AmericanAnimals this week, we also discussed a naff bit of King (Big Driver), a couple of Soderberghs (Side Effects and The Informant!) and one of two 1998 movies featuring Ian McKellen being old and having a challenging relationship with a young man in his house... (Apt Pupil) Out now!

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

13.06 American Animals (2018) Petros from @dafoeyoupod.bsky.social and @cagedinpod.bsky.social returns to chat Bart Leyton's signature docu-narrative style, unreliable framing devices, night-time shooting in L.A., a load bearing Dowd performance and whether we could pull this heist off Out now!

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In the Dowd Debrief this week: a couple of very different teen movies in the form of All Over Me and Alice Upside Down, an early career Jesse Eisenberg comedy (The Living Wake) and Burke and Colombo on a father son road trip in The Thing About My Folks 13.05 - Out now tinyurl.com/wadgsspotify

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

13.05 Garden State (2004) We chat the stranglehold this film had over our guest (Clare from @wrated.bsky.social) and how it compares to Daryl's first time watch, the origins of the manic pixie dream girl, problematic Portman, Dowd giving brilliant mum and the era defining soundtrack. Out now!

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We'll be revealing who has won the listener poll to be our Season 14 subject soon but as you can see... we had a tie! So one that we've agreed on will be up next, the other we'll definitely get to sooner rather than later!

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This week, we bond over the underrated Daniel Stern, VERY 90s kids (?) comedy Bushwhacked, Daryl checks out Kingfish and Helpsters while Matt reports on Wildlike plus two films with under 500 views on Letterboxd - Hedgehog and Lucy... not that one. tinyurl.com/wadtnbpspotify

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Daryl: Part One @hotdonkeybear.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Picked this up for Jeanette

Book. Attack of the 50ft. Women: how gender equality can save the world by Catherine Mayer. The artwork is an homage to the 50s movie as a red headed kaiju woman (one of my favourite types of kaiju) looms large over a highway

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

BONUS - The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) We reach our first bonus, looking at this particular brand of mid 00's HBO movie, the star power of Gretchen Mol, criticise the shift of perspective and lack of depth and highlight Dowd selling another flavour of supporting role. #wellanndowd #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This week, we uncover a strange David Bowie time loop flick Speed of Life, an emotional HBO movie Taking Chance, a young Lois Lane in Coming Up Roses, Nancy (not Mandy) and more! 13.04 - Out now #anndowd #wellanndowd

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Spocklight @spocklightpod.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

NEW EPISODE ALERT 🖖 The Spocklight crew have finally return after being stranded on Ceti Alpha V for the last few months (our apologies Spocklighters) to analyse the first ever official Star Trek Podcast Audio Drama, Star Trek: Khan. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

13.04 The Exorcist: Believer (2023) We summon returning guest Daisy Edwards (from @wrated.bsky.social) to chat David Gordon Green's wild career, the Avengers of Faith, the cynical limits of legacy sequels and the Dowd focused follow up we were denied. Out now #wellanndowd #anndowd #ispauldanook

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In the Dowd Debrief this week, we also chat a tense lads lads lads party in Tyrel, a stunning John Goodman in Kingfish, a shady Matt Damon in The Informant! and a much different type of George Miller flick with Lorenzo's Oil - plus more! tinyurl.com/wadcspotify

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

13.03 Compliance (2012) For this challenging indie drama, we discuss the film's approach to identity, social politeness and susceptibility to perceived authority as well as Dowd's brilliant, sad lead role alongside character actor mainstays Pat Healy and Bill Camp Out now

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In this week's episode, we also discuss a real mixed bag of past projects, from a Julianne Moore rental "classic" and the most famous dead dog to an ill judged edge lord indie and a problematic raunchy comedy. One thing is for sure - Dowd is the glue holding these together! #wellanndowd #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

13.02 It Could Happen To You (1994) We chat the film's debt to Frank Capra, the frustrating logic of the lottery win, the film's lack of conflict, NYC's best ever cop Nick Cage, the return of the Tuuch and needing much more of Dowd's waitress character. Out now!

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Spocklight @spocklightpod.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Happy 40th Birthday to the absolute legend that is @mattbrothers.bsky.social one of the hosts of our little podcast and of the mighty @ispauldanook.bsky.social - qoSlIj DatIvjaj!

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Daryl: Part One @hotdonkeybear.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Happy 40th Birthday @mattbrothers.bsky.social. @ispauldanook.bsky.social’s Han Solo to my Chewbacca. Cherished friend, uncle to a human blur, captain of The Average Mouse Detectives, and lover of spreadsheets x

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Matt inebriated sticking his tongue out as a hand holds what looks like a piss jug but I assure you it’s room temperature Prosecco

Matt in a Paul Dano tee, standing in front of a big lit up poster wall of The Batman

Matt wearing a baseball tee that has Cinematic Bitches written on it

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our first Dowd Debrief this season sees us discussing The Art of Getting By, Family Squares, Cowboy, The Manchurian Candidate and Terminator Zero! All this and more in our Philadelphia episode, out now! #anndowd #wellanndowd

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Daryl: Part One @hotdonkeybear.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Love the Steve Trumble mention here! His artwork for our podcast is incredible, and if you've not seen his Batman animated short film, Broken Promise, you really should. It's extraordinary

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Looks like we can add that new Sia concert doc to the next Dano season...

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

WELL, ANN DOWD IS HERE! We celebrate Dano's birthday by launching season 13 with Philadelphia with David Trumble, chatting Dowd's range, Springsteen, the 90s being THE time for stressed out lawyers, controversies, Demme's trademarks and the incredible storytelling economy of this thing. Out now!

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wrated.bsky.social @wrated.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Rounding off our Scary Movie coverage and just in time for Toy Story 5, our latest episode covers our Top 3 Fifth Entries in a Franchise. And yes, there is some Star Wars contention. Thanks @mattbrothers.bsky.social from @ispauldanook.bsky.social for joining us! open.spotify.com/episode/74og...

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our last bonus this season will be looking at the critically acclaimed HBO show The Leftovers and Dowd's mesmerising turn. With returning guest Jacob Stolworthy. Monday 24th August #wellanndowd #theleftovers #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our season finale focuses on one hell of a chamber piece, with Dowd in co-leading form in Mass (2021). Joined by returning guest @jamiemilligan.bsky.social Monday 17th August #wellanndowd #mass #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our penultimate main episode will explore one of the most influential horror films of the past ten years with Hereditary (2018) Joined by Fangoria/Film Hounds/Metro writer and horror fan @blsaycewrites.bsky.social Monday 10th August #wellanndowd #hereditary #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Episode 6 will see us tackling the docu-heist drama American Animals from director Bart Layton. Joined by returning guest and accomplice, Petros Patsilivas of @cagedinpod.bsky.social and @dafoeyoupod.bsky.social Monday 3rd August #wellanndowd #americananimals #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Dowd's back in Mum Mode for episode 5 all on Garden State (2004). Returning to examine this formative piece of cinematic media is the other half of @wrated.bsky.social, @clareellenhope.bsky.social Monday 27th July #wellanndowd #gardenstate #anndowd

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Is Paul Dano OK Presents: Well, Ann Dowd @ispauldanook.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our first bonus episode pit stop is with the HBO movie, The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) starring the magnificent Gretchen Mol. With returning guest @kobestarr.bsky.social from @flixwatcher.bsky.social Monday 20th July #wellanndowd #thenotoriousbettiepage #anndowd

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