Join Radio 1’s resident film buff Ali Plumb for movie news, reviews and extra behind-the-screens fun.
It's Radio 1 's Movie Week and to celebrate, Ali has chosen some of his favourite interviews from the archives. Here he chats to Jennifer Lawrence about her biggest roles, from Katniss in The Hunger Games and Mystique in X-Men to her Oscar winning performance in Silver Linings Playbook.
With WandaVision still revealing more and more of its sitcom-superhero mystery week by week on Disney+, he's the second part of Ali's interviews with its stars, namely Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda herself), Kathryn Hahn (Agnes) and Teyonah Parris (Monica Rambeau). No spoilers contained herein, just to be clear - though there is so much to talk about, in this particular podcast we try to keep things surface level. Just wait until all of the episodes land though and then, trust us, there's a spoiler spe...
On this week's Friday episode of Radio 1's Screen Time, there's a bursting bag of news to dig through, with details on the Super Bowl trailer drops, the Last Of Us TV adaptation and much more. And after much fanfare, Ali finally awakens The Mummy - the 1999 edition, to be clear - with friend of the podcast and all-round excellent person Rose Matafeo stopping back to talk about her love of Brendan Fraser. So make sure you've seen it recently and get ready for some spoilerific discussion of one of...
If you're a TV buff, Russell T Davies will need no introduction, being as he is the man behind Queer as Folk, Casanova, the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, Cucumber, Years and Years and now his universally lauded HIV/AIDS drama It's A Sin. A five-part Channel 4 miniseries set between 1981 and 1991, it's a heartbreaking semi-autobiographical story that deserves every award going, and here Ali does his best not to cry halfway through the actual interview.
This week's 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' choice is Self-proclaimed superfan Dan Schreiber - of QI, No Such Thing As A Fish and Museum of Curiosity fame - returns to Radio 1's Screen Time to sling karate facts at Ali, as well as professing his enduring love for Elizabeth Shue. He's only human, after all.
You know Dave Franco as an actor from appearing in the likes of The Disaster Artist, the Now You See Me movies and much, much more but now he's writing and directing his own films, kicking things off with The Rental, now available in the UK on Amazon Prime Video, a horror thriller about two couples who go on holiday to a rented home and get that uncomfortable feeling they are being watched. Press play to hear Franco talking about putting it all together, his love of Paddington 2 and much much mo...
Friend of the podcast and MTV movie veteran Josh Horowitz returns for a '90s action movie special of 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' centring around Friday night classic Air Force One. Expect plenty of chit chat about improvised weaponry, film title suffixes (more fun than it sounds) and the best movie presidents. Oh, and 'Die Hard clones', which are 100% a thing. And all this is on top of the news section, which features Harry Potter, John Boyega in a Formula 1 car and King Kong fighting Godzilla, just...
Rose Matafeo is one of those excellently excellent actor-comedian-writer-performers that is going to be HUGE so, so soon - in part no doubt to her starring role in the new New Zealand pregnancy rom-com (not a genre but hey) called Baby Done, where her dry humour and amazing screen presence just beam off your TV. Here she talks to Ali about New Zealand comedy vs. UK comedy, the strangest scenes to shoot and all of her amazing lockdown crafting creations. You're going to love this one, promise....
A twofer for Ali Plumb's Film Club this week: Hook and Jumanji, with Matt Edmondson joining Ali for a '90s Robin Williams special. Plus a decent chunk of movie news to discuss, including all those unavoidable movie release delays, lots of Marvel bits and bobs, plus a few of your very best answers to the question "What's the weirdest way your parents have ever reviewed a film?" It's great fun, promise.
WandaVision, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first foray into the world of movie-stars-in-their-own-Disney+-TV-show, stars Paul Bettany as Vision and Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff, and it's finally - finally! - here. In this Sunday interview special of Screen Time we have Paul and his director, Matt Shakman, talking about the origins of the show as well as the character of Vision himself in all his purple, cowled, flying, phasing, superintelligent glory.
Confession time: Ali Plumb's Film Club is, for one week only, a TV club. About a TV show that's based on a film series, sure - that's The Mandalorian, in case you were wondering - but it's worth admitting the discrepancy early doors. We've also got the news section, discussing tonnes of MCU news, as well as release date changes and what is going on (ish) over in New Zealand for that Lord Of The Rings show.
Dickinson, the historical comedy-drama based around the life and times of the beloved 19th century American poet, returns for a second season on AppleTV+, and with it - of course - Hailee Steinfeld, its star. In this interview you'll hear about some of the more surreal moments from the show - dancing with bees and so on - as Ali and Hailee discuss a comedy-drama that is truly like no other. Oh, and they ever find time to explain exactly who Emily Dickinson is, just in case you missed that lesson...
Radio 1's Screen Time is back back back for 2021 and you'll be pleased to hear that Ali Plumb's Film Club is going nowhere, no sir or madam. This week friend of the podcast Arielle Free returns to talk about Pixar's latest, Soul, and as it's about, well, the meaning of existence, there's SO MUCH TO SAY - so this film club could well be a record-breaking length. Then there's a very brief news section, as well as a whole bunch of different movie and TV recommendations on top of the answer to the q...
Jenna Coleman is best known for her work on Emmerdale, Doctor Who and Victoria but she's soon to be seen in something distinctly different: BBC One's serial killer true-crime drama The Serpent, where she plays the seemingly complicit other half to the infamous 'Bikini Killer' Charles Sobhraj (played by A Prophet's Tahar Rahim) in the 1970s. In this audio version of her Story So Far interview, she talks about shooting in Thailand, mastering the Quebecois accent and what mementos she managed to sn...
After two seasons on YouTube, Karate Kid TV follow-up Cobra Kai was snapped up by Netflix and now, at long last, a third instalment is here. It tells the continuing stories of one-time teenage rivals Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and well as a host of their young students, including Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña), Samantha LaRusso (Mary Mouser) and Hawk himself, played by Jacob Bertrand. They all spoke to Ali through the magic of the internet to talk about the ...
Ali has his feet up watching a Christmas Movie (who woulda guessed!) So no news or reviews this week. However look out for some great interview special podcasts coming up in the next week, including the cast of Cobra Kai and the brilliant Jenna Coleman talking about her role in the upcoming BBC drama The Serpent.
This year, we've had two Pixar movies. One was Onward, which came out in cinemas back in March and the second is Soul, which is forgoing cinemas and instead opting for a Disney+ release on Christmas day. Talking us through how they made this incredible music-cum-meaning-of-life movie about a middle school band teacher (Jamie Foxx), his unfortunate accident and trip to "the great before" (where he meets lsot soul Tina Fey) are producer Dana Murray, director Pete Docter (Up, Inside Out) and the fa...
So here it is, merry Christmas - nearly, anyway - and everybody's watching tonnes of festive films. One on everyone's list is Love Actually, 2003's star-studded Christmassy chocolate box movie from Richard Curtis. In this very special episode, the man himself, the writer-director behind it all, drops by to talk about the movie and a new Comic Relief quiz they've put together. Plus Lucy Ford's back for bonus Love Actually fun, and there's the news section as well, which while not quite as whoppin...
Wonder Woman 1984 finally hits cinemas here in the UK on the 16th of December, significantly earlier than in the US, where it'll land over Christmas. Here in this interview special all about the DC Comics sequel, you'll hear from its lead, Gal Gadot, about her brand new golden set of winged armour, shooting some extraordinary action set-pieces (in London, some of the time) and - believe it or not - what her favourite British food is. Plus, there's the amazing Pedro Pascal and director Patty Jenk...
Ali tries to wrestle with ALL THE HUGE MOVIE AND TV NEWS that's landed lately, touching on the ongoing HBO Max situation, Better Call Saul's action thriller (sort of), the return of Doc Ock (and many more) in the upcoming Spider-Man Far From Home sequel - oh, and all of the incredible, nigh-on unbelievable headlines coming out of the Disney Investors event on Thursday night. So many big stories. So little time. Oh, and there's also the Elf 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' chat in the second half of the p...
Rachel Brosnahan has appeared in the likes of House Of Cards, Manhattan, Gossip Girl and The Good Wife - not forgetting her career-changing role as Midge in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - and now she stars in her own Amazon movie I'm Your Woman (out on December 11) about a mother on the run with her child after her husband betrays his fellow mobsters. Here she talks to Ali about all of the above, all whilst Ali's other half - called Ally, by the by - completes a jigsaw in the other side of the room...
Klaus! What do you mean, you haven't seen it? You better watch it before you listen to this week's 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' as it's our Christmassy choice this time around. You've also got the movie news section, where we tackle a massive bombshell dropped on us by Warner Bros over in the US, as well as a few other titbits involving Mads Mikkelsen, Jason Statham and Small Axe.
We've dug through the Ali Plumb interview archives to put together a special Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Sunday special where you can hear snippets from previous interviews with the likes of Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino (whoever they are) as they talk about QT's latest.
Ace is back on the podcast this week to talk about the latest entry in 'Ali Plumb's Film Club': Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Look forward to two very geeky men being highly overexcited, just the way you like it. Plus a quick hop, skip and a jump (or three) over the biggest news stories of the week, including The Last Of Us getting a series order from HBO and when we might be able to see Wonder Woman 1984 in the UK.
Christmassy rom-com Happiest Season arrives in the UK on November 26th, and to celebrate Ali got to speak to its stars, Mackenzie Davis and Kristen Stewart, about ice-skating on camera, their favourite comfort food movies and tv shows, and of course - what with it being the main topic of the movie in question - the perils of coming out to your conservative parents over the holidays. As if being with all your family over the holiday season wasn't stressful enough, eh?
With Steve McQueen's Small Axe film series, The Mandalorian, Star Trek: Discovery, His Dark Materials and so much else dropping of late, there's a lot going on in the world of movies and TV for Radio 1's Screen Time - still, that's not going to stop us from carrying on with 'Ali Plumb's Film Club', with friend of the podcast and Bong Joon-ho Karen Han stopping by to talk about the Best Picture-winning dark comedy drama. After the news section of course, what with the whole Wonder Woman 1984 reve...
Gillian Anderson plays Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the latest season of The Crown on Netflix and here she talks to Ali about working alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Colman in the higher-than-high-end big budget drama, plus a tiny, tiny bit on her X-Files memories and what it's like to be recognised for her work in Sex Education...
Ali is 'on holiday' this week but he's still got a little bit of waffle for you, just for fun. Plus: news on what's next week's 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' choice - spoiler alert, it's Parasite. Gave the game away there, drat. Ah well. Now you know.
His Dark Materials returns for a second series on BBC One just when we needed it - not 'season', despite Ali's slip of the tongue in the intro, this is a British show, come along now - and we've got Lyra (Dafne Keen) and Will (Amir Wilson) themselves on the line to talk about how the show has changed their lives, acting alongside a daemon, seeing your poster above a highway and much much more. This one's a lot of fun, promise!
In this extra-long edition of Ali Plumb's Film Club, the utterly wonderful Arielle Free stops by to talk about Groundhog Day, everyone's favourite time-loop comedy about weather prediction starring Bill Murray. Come on, let's all admit it. With SO MUCH to discuss in this secretly deep, surprisingly emotional, worryingly relevant movie, it really is a super-sized chat. In a good way!
