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NEW EPISODE ALERT 🖖🚨 In the wake of our own 10th anniversary and Star Trek's 60th, we're joined by Story Artist for Animation, David Trumble, to discuss the 1st ever Season of Star Trek, as we pick out some hidden gems from the run and much more! Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

I always liked Pavel Chekhov. It’s quite a thing though, isn’t it, to play a supporting character who will be part of the fabric of popular culture forever? Good for him. He made a lot of people happy. RIP Walter Koenig.

R.I.P. Walter Koenig, the man who made the Enterprise crew truly complete when he joined Star Trek at the start of its second season in 1967 as Pavel Chekov.

NEW BONUS: We tally up our time with Ann Dowd and turn our debriefing to our next season focus, Keith David! We compare final Dowd stats, chat our favourite discoveries and pitch "Dowd and Pounder: With Shotguns" before chatting our entry point with KD, his background and the line-up to come.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I’m in this issue of @empiremagazine.bsky.social helping to rank the Star Trek TV Shows 🖖. Check it out online or in stores to see if you agree with what made our top spot and the shows that missed out on the top 10 altogether.

We're still a while out from Hail to the Keith kicking off in earnest but tune in on Monday as we drop our season primer episode, setting the scene for the great man and wrapping up all things Ann Dowd!

“AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself" — 'Wildwood' director Travis Knight

Introducing Season 14 of the podcast: HAIL TO THE KEITH! This time around we're checking out the character actor who absolutely will not stop. With over 400 credits to his name, we are spoiled for choice. We're recording now so expect this season to premiere later this year! #keithdavid

9 down, 5 to go. This time around me and the great @mrcraigcohen.bsky.social tackle the extremely complex realase history of "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid" and much more besides that. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/73s2...

Swear Trek was the best

Star Trek’s 60th Anniversary and our our own 10th, it’s a double celebration over at @spocklightpod.bsky.social

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...

Stay woke! 🖖🏼

Could this be the Star Trek show to break us all?! Enlist in Spocklight to find out podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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...

New episode alert! Join me as myself and very special guest Andrew Gaudion (Ramblin: An Amblin Podcast) talk about the more successful of Peckinpah's two Steve McQueen collaborations, "The Getaway." /open.spotify.com/episode/0UaYaSjCar8dUpiXONQXvk

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

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

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

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...

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!

Our very own Paul Willson Morris saddles up to discuss one of Sam Peckinpah’s lesser seen works, Junior Bonner, on @bloodysam.bsky.social

Remember how 60 years ago STAR TREK had an episode about a planet whose inhabitants’ technology to create convincing fake shit was so advanced that the Federation decided no one could visit that planet and doing so was punishable by death?

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

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

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...

@letterboxd.social you really gonna do us all like this and sell to a company that actively hates cinema?!!

Our legendary Pod Artist @stevetrumble.bsky.social is making a sequel to his incredible animated Batman fan film, Broken Promise (currently over 2million views on YouTube!!) - join the Lost Cause at Kickstarter today!

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!

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!

The IPDO Presents Letterboxd list getting updated weekly with the new releases once again! letterboxd.com/matt_bro/lis...

Lovely to see our Pod artist, Stephen Trumble, get a mention here 🔥

SMERSH ON SCREEN: DISCLOSURE DAY with @itsdanthomas.bsky.social shows.acast.com/smershpod/ep...

Inspired by @seanfennessey.bsky.social and the Physical Media High Council, me and my @spocklightpod.bsky.social co-host, Paul, started a new tradition of sending eachother film postcards found in fancy Blu-ray sets (which led to a projector screening of Basic Instinct in this case).

Well, Ann Dowd will kick things off later this month with Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993)! Joining us for the first time since season 3 is returning guest, animator and story artist David Trumble. Friday 19th June (Paul Dano's birthday, as is tradition) #wellanndowd #philadelphia #anndowd

... and welcome to WELL, ANN DOWD Season 13 of the podcast, launching properly in about two months, will be covering the brilliant Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale, Compliance, Hereditary, The Leftovers and much more). Recording underway now, full episode and guest announcements to come.

Latest TV watched @serializdapp.bsky.social - Yes Minister, Spooks, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for @spocklightpod.bsky.social The Bill (rewatch), The Great British Bake Off, The North Water, Half Man, Too Much, Welcome to Wrexham, and Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man.

Coming soon.

Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs is one of my favourite films of all time, it is also an admittedly problematic and undeniably controversial work so it makes sense that @scottmurphy.bsky.social and myself needed two and a half hours to even begin unpacking it.

Due to it's polarising nature this was a difficult one to tackle but hopefully I did this great but frequently troubling and, at times, deeply problematic movie justice. Luckily, I had the excellent @liamhdempsey.bsky.social alongside me to tackle this one and I think it came out pretty well.

This episode is a bit longer than normal and no wonder as this time around we are tackling Peckinpah's most controversial work "Straw Dogs". Luckily we brought in Peckinpah expert @liamhdempsey.bsky.social (Spocklight) to tackle this highly divsive film. open.spotify.com/episode/5y1q...

Latest TV watched @serializdapp.bsky.social - X-Men (rewatch), Bob’s Burgers, The Royle Family, Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, The Bill (rewatch), ER, Beef, The Simpsons, Welcome to Wrexham, The Boys, Euphoria, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for @spocklightpod.bsky.social

Latest TV watched @serializdapp.bsky.social - Bait, Invincible, Saturday Night Live UK, The X-Files (rewatch), Catastrophe (rewatch), Justified, Bob’s Burgers, The Great Celebrity Bake Off, The Boys, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for @spocklightpod.bsky.social Euphoria, and Alias Grace.

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