A League Of Their Own is the movie pick for 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' this week, chosen by guest Cathy Cullen from the Cinemile podcast. So there's that to look forward to, as well as the usual does of movie and TV news - but this Friday edition we also have some TV recommendations for you now that Line Of Duty has wrapped up, as well as a segment at the very end about the best 'underseen / underappreciated' sports movies of all time. A bumper podcast and no mistake!
May 07, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Michael B Jordan is only just in his 30s but has accomplished so much already, from his work in The Wire close to 20 years ago to his new Tom Clancy Amazon Prime movie, Without Remorse, and everything in-between: Friday Night Lights, Black Panther, The Creeds, Chronicle... the list goes on and on. He was even People magazine's Sexiest Man In The World in 2020, so, you know, he's good-looking too - in case you weren't already aware of that fact. Here he talks to Ali about his 'Story So Far' and n...
May 01, 2021•19 min
Two friends of the podcast join us this week: Clarisse Loughrey to talk the Oscars and general movie news as well as Ace to talk The Falcon And The Winter Soldier in spoilerific TV version of 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' - yes, it's not a film, but hey, let's be generous - in this bumper Friday edition.
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Marvel / Disney+ MCU TV show spin-off The Falcon And The Winter Soldier has now aired its sixth and final episode, so here's Ali's interview with one of its stars, Anthony Mackie, for a 'Becoming... The Falcon' special. Look forward to The Man Also Known As Sam Wilson recounting his favourite moments in the movies so far, talking about costume challenges and opening up about the joy of taking the mick out of his co-star Sebastian Stan.
Apr 24, 2021•17 min
As requested by you, dear Radio 1's Screen Time listener, it's time to talk about the John Hughes (and Steve Martin and John Candy) odd couple road trip Thanksgiving comedy classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles for this week's 'Ali Plumb's Film Club'. Joining us to do so is Sam Clements, who hosts the '90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest' podcast which celebrates all moves under that magic 90-minute mark - only this time, here on this podcast, he gets to talk about one that's just over, at 92 minutes ...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr
The writer-director (Emerald Fennell) and star (Carey Mulligan) of the long-awaited black comedy thriller Promising Young Woman talk to Ali about their astonishing new film, touching on Britney influences, mood boards and the extraordinary reaction the film has been getting.
Apr 17, 2021•14 min
Regular Screen Time contributor Steffan Powell stops by to talk about the Ocean's films - all four of them, more or less! - and give us his thoughts on the new Knives Out follow-ups (what with him being a big murder mystery fan and all). Expect Ali and Steffan to say the word "slick" a lot as they talk about everyone's favourite heist comedy capers, as well as a mild rant about the disappointment that was Ocean's 12. Ah, the memories.
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr
Everyone's favourite amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne - or is that David Webb? We forget - comes under the 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' spotlight this week as Helen O'Hara drops by to talk about The Bourne Identity (and some of the other Bournes as well, to be fair). All that plus the news headlines, some bonus Bourne facts and a whole tonne of mispronounced words makes up what is soon to be considered a classic in the 'Radio 1's Screen Time Podcasts That Were Released in April 2021' canon.
Apr 12, 2021•51 min
Our Ali resists flat-out asking Andy Samberg to be his 'new best friend' during this Story So Far interview in honour of his new time-loopy romantic comedy-drama Palm Springs, now - at long last! - available on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, nearly a year after those lucky Americans got to see it first in 2020. Expect nerdy SNL chat, nerdy Hot Rod chat, nerdy Popstar chat, nerdy Palm Springs chat and just a whole lot of general nerdy chat to be honest.
Apr 10, 2021•19 min
So there's this monster, right, called Godzilla. And then there's this other monster, right, called Kong. One's an atomic lizard-type-thing, the other's a giant ape. And in this movie, yeah, well, they fight. Like really fight. That's probably all you need to know before you watch it, but just in case here's some of the cast (Alexander Skarsgård, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Julian Dennison) and the director (Adam Wingard) to explain more in very entertaining detail.
Apr 03, 2021•22 min
It's a Friday edition of Radio 1's Screen Time, but not as we know it: yes, it's a super secret sushy spoiler special in honour of Disney+'s WandaVision, as requested by so many, many, many of you fine folk. As you may have guessed, if you haven't seen the show, maybe give this particular episode a miss and check out one of our recent interview specials, but if you're up to date, then press play and regret nothing.
Apr 02, 2021•49 min
Eddie Izzard stars in World War II spy-thriller-drama Six Minutes To Midnight, as well as co-writing it (no big deal). Legend of stand-up, unstoppable marathoner and self-confessed history buff, Izzard is on fine form here, despite seemingly not realising how much of a nerdy Eddie fan Ali is. Seriously, it's a wonder he didn't explode with excitement.
Mar 28, 2021•17 min
Tom And Jerry return in - would you believe it - Tom And Jerry, bringing along with them the likes of Chloe Grace Moretz, Michael Pena and Ken Jeong. All three speak to Ali for this interview special, as well as director Tim Story, though we were unable to get either Tom or Jerry to talk to us for this podcast, though let it be known that we tried.
Mar 27, 2021•21 min
One Nicholas Grimshaw esquire joins Radio 1's Screen Time this week to talk about his favourite film ever, Bridesmaids - a film he loves so much he's even got a tattoo of it. Yep. No kidding. Plus, Henry Lloyd-Hughes drops by to talk about The Irregulars, the new Netflix Sherlocky show where our Henry plays - you guessed it - Holmes himself.
Mar 26, 2021•51 min
If you're an animation fan in any way, you'll be delighted to discover that the producer of Soul, Dana Murray, and the director of Soul, Pete Docter, are back for a return visit to Radio 1's Screen Time. Look forward to a semi-spoilery conversation about Graham Norton's voice acting superpowers, the big third act plot move and Pixar's ever-expanding back catalogue of Easter Eggs.
Mar 21, 2021•19 min
In this super-sized Friday edition of Radio 1's Screen Time podcast, you'll hear interviews with both the director and writer behind the new Disney+ Marvel TV series Falcon And The Winter Soldier, as well as Zack Snyder, the man behind, um, Zack Snyder's Justice League. No big deal. That's all in addition to a great Ali Plumb's Film Club with friend of the podcast Josh Horowitz where we talk about Fight Club, a film that's honestly really quite hard to talk about (without breaking the rules, tha...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Cherry is the latest from AppleTV+ and, well, the directors behind the biggest film of all time - that's Avengers: Endgame, by the way - Joe and Anthony Russo, giving The Artist Also Known As Spider-Man (aka Tom Holland) the opportunity to really stretch his acting muscles alongside the equally excellent Ciara Bravo in this drug addiction, bank robbery, army veteran drama based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name. And by the way, please do get in touch if you can find a longer sen...
Mar 14, 2021•22 min
Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto. Three big names - three Oscar winners, no less - spoke to Ali recently to talk about their new movie, The Little Things, a '90s-set serial killer thriller directed and written by John Lee Hancock (who also appears on the podcast, to be clear).
Mar 13, 2021•17 min
A mega-bonus-bumper Friday podcast for you this week, with a brief news section but an extra-long Ali Plumb's Film Club in honour of Easy A, one of the very best teen films the 21st century has to offer. Thanks again to friend of the podcast Lucy Ford for stopping by to talk about her love of Stanley Tucci and Emma Stone - and to Adam Brody, our bonus podcast interview which you can find towards the end of the episode, where he talks about his upcoming movie The Kid Detective. Told you it was a ...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Eddie Murphy - THE Eddie Murphy - spoke to Ali recently about his new movie, Coming 2 America, the much anticipated sequel to his beloved 1988 comedy about Crown Prince Akeem (Murphy himself) traveling to New York to find his one true love. Now, decades later, the follow-up has landed on Amazon Prime Video, and we can all return to Zamunda just one more time. Oh, and just to be clear: this interview contains strong language (as you may have guessed) so forewarned is forearmed.
Mar 07, 2021•18 min
On this week's Friday podcast, we've got a bumper edition of 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' where friend of the show and all-round excellent person stops by to talk about Best Picture winner Gladiator, the historically fluid swords and sandals story that left millions of people trying to impersonate Russell Crowe's gravelly voice for, well, quite some time. To this day, even. We've also got a short and sweet news section, as well as a tiny clip of Russell himself from his Movies That Made Me from back ...
Mar 06, 2021•53 min
A new Disney animation is here, the first since - checks notes - Frozen 2 in November 2019, and the first one partly made in animators' homes and not actually entirely in the House Of Mouse. Here, Ali talks to its stars, Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina, as well as its directors, Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, and its two writers, Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim and producer Osnat Shurer. Almost the whole gang, basically!
Mar 06, 2021•23 min
Daniel Radcliffe has a new film out, the tense prison break thriller Escape From Pretoria, and he got on the line with Ali to talk all about it recently now it's out on Amazon Prime Video. If you're not already in the know, he plays Tim Jenkins, the real-life South African political prisoner who managed to break out of jail in 1979 using - wait for it - wooden keys. Yep. So to hear The Artist Formerly Known As The Boy Who Lived talking about South African accents, acting alongside the man you yo...
Feb 28, 2021•20 min
After Radio 1's Movies Week - where Greg James set Ali the task of watching as many films as possible in a week - Ali is back and normal podcast service can finally resume. Hooray and so forth. You've got the news section, where the likes of Tom Holland, Zack Snyder and Emma Stone crop up, as well as good ol' Ali Plumb's Film Club, which sees Mollie King stopping by to talk about her love of Valentine's Day favourite Notting Hill in exquisite detail. And okay, sure, there's a bit of waffle about...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 1 min
As Radio 1's Movie Week concludes Ali gives you another chance to hear not One but THREE massive Hollywood stars. Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt all talk about the making of Tarantino's modern masterpiece, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Feb 21, 2021•14 min
Ali chooses his favourite interviews from the archives for Radio 1’s Movie week and today’s is legendary director Quentin Tarantino. Here he chats to Ali about his iconic films, from Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill to new movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Feb 20, 2021•25 min
As part of Radio 1's Movie Week we bring some classic Ali Plumb Interviews. Today, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner chats about her career so far, including best lines in GOT, Dark Phoenix and James McAvoy's neck!
Feb 19, 2021•22 min
As Ali sups on gruel whilst watching Oliver as part of his Marathon Movie Challenge he chooses some of his favourite movie interviews from the past. Today it’s the star of Skins, Slumdog Millionaire, Lion, Dev Patel. Find out how he reacts at weddings when DJs press play on ‘Jai Ho’, who people mistake him for and what it’s actually like to be a Hollywood star (not that he’s comfortable with that phrase, mind).
Feb 18, 2021•18 min
Poor Ali is right in the thick of it, trying to complete Greg James's challenge to watch and A to Z of movies. While he's doing that he thought you might want to hear the wonderful Emilia Clarke. Here she talks about her movie Last Christmas, plus Game of Thrones and Star Wars.
Feb 17, 2021•21 min
Radio 1's Movie Week continues and as Ali continues his mega movie challenge set by Greg James he's decided to pick out his favourite interviews from the past. Today's is the one and only Tom Cruise.Tom tells Ali Plumb the stories behind some of his biggest movies - including Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, Tropic Thunder & American Made. He also reveals the movies that have inspired him and all the details of his most amazing stunts.
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min
