Join Radio 1’s resident film buff Ali Plumb for movie news, reviews and extra behind-the-screens fun.
It's been a while but it's time for another movie and TV news round up from Ali, touching on everything from what Leo is up to next to what on earth is going on with Black Panther 2. Plus! As a Christmassy bonus, a chat with the stars of Home Sweet Home Alone, Aisling Bea and Rob Delaney. Happy month before Christmas folks!
Eternals is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - the 26th, no less - and it's a BIG ONE. We're talking thousands of years passing, the creation of worlds, the destruction of worlds, Angelina Jolie as an elite warrior who can form any weapon out of cosmic energy... There's a huge amount at stake with this one! And a killer cast, including Kit Harington and Gemma Chan, both of which you'll hear from today, as well as our Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao, not forgetting Don Lee and M...
There are so many films to watch in UK cinemas right now: Dune, No Time To Die, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, The French Dispatch, The Many Saints Of Newark, Last Night In Soho, Eternals, Spencer... the list goes on and on. On this review special, friend of the podcast and all-round hero Clarisse Loughrey stops by to help Ali try to tackle as many of them as possible. Look forward to waffly summaries and graceless spoiler avoidance, as we so often like to do around these parts.
Edgar Wright is back with Last Night in Soho, a psychological horror time-travelling thriller drama - our term - teaming up with friend of the podcast Krysty Wilson-Cairns on writing duties. Both are here to tell you all about how they turned the clock back in central London, as are two of the stars, the wonderful Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith. This is a tricky film to talk about without giving too much away, so wish us all luck...
It's Halloween! Or, perhaps, by the time you read this... it was Halloween! So that explains why friend of the podcast and die-hard Scream aficionado Louise Blain stops by for a special 'Ali Plumb's Film Club' all about the original Scream, 26 years after it first hit cinemas. Expect discussions and descriptions of a variety of unpleasant Screamy activities - in a fun way! But also in a "just so you know" way, just so you know.
Dune is finally in cinemas and that is a very, very, very big deal indeed. Here's the wonderful and ever-charming Rebecca Ferguson (Lady Jessica in the film) to talk all about it - more or less - with Ali, as you, dear listener, specifically requested. Oh, and as well as talking Dune, there's also some chat about getting on the tube with Tom Cruise, her favourite family games to play and much, much more. Also! If you're keen on more Dune in your life, check out the Denis interview on BBC iPlayer...
Succession series 3 - or should we say 'season 3', as it's a US show, even if it's written by a mainly British writing staff? Anyway... - is finally here in the UK on Sky / Now and Ali is very excited about that indeed. Here he is, geeking out about one of his favourite TV shows on air today with three of its stars: Sarak Snook, Brian Cox and Matthew Macfadyen. Warning - and this is a BIG WARNING - these conversations contain plenty of strong language, just like the show itself. Also, spoilers f...
Halloween Kills is the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise. That's right, twelfth. It's only the sixth - we think - to include the legend that is Jamie Lee Curtis, and it's also the follow-up to 2018's Halloween, the box office winner that reset the timeline and ignored the previous sequels. On this particular interview special, you'll hear from the queen of scream queens as she explains just how unglamorous it is to shoot a low-budget horror and what she has/had planned for the Hallo...
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is finally in UK cinemas - two weeks after it first dropped over in the US - so now feels like the perfect time to unveil our 'Becoming... Venom' interview with Tom Hardy. Ali and Tom dig deep on what makes the character(s) tick, touching on the voice, the look, the attitude, the everything. It also contains some terrible Venom impressions from Ali, for which he can only apologise.
With so, so, so, so many of your fine folk asking so, so, so, so nicely, Ali and Neil have got together once again to talk No Time To Die - only this time WITH SPOILERS. That's right: the No Time To Die Spoiler special is here, and it's earlier than anyone could have expected. So if you're looking for a safe space to hear fellow nerds really dig into what goes down in No Time To Die, you've come to the right place. Just make sure you've seen the film already. Seriously. We're not kidding. At all...
With No Time To Die pretty much the only big movie in town - sorry The Addams Family 2, you know it's true - Ali is joined by the always wonderful Lucy Ford to talk about some of the biggest and best TV shows we're all watching right now. Okay, fine: Squid Game. A lot of this podcast (the second half, more or less) is about Squid Game. No spoilers though, we're totally aware we're not all totally up to date here, but as well as your usual weekly dose of movie and TV news we will be coming to ter...
In addition to speaking to Daniel Craig for our 'Becoming... Bond' piece, Ali also got to speak to the likes of Lashana Lynch, Rami Malek and director Cary Fukunaga as well, the lucky so and so. And here as a bonus No Time To Die interview special, you can hear from all three of them about how they put the film together. As this was recorded so long ago, no risk of spoilers here!
No Time To Die is finally here, in cinemas, ready to be watched by you. The trouble is, here's a motion picture that's so stuffed full of twists and turns it's practically impossible to review it properly without giving too much away. To make things just a little bit easier for Ali, friend of the podcast and Bond expert Neil Alcock has returned to chew the fat on No Time To Die - and even talk about who should play James Bond next...
The always wonderful Ace is back to talk to Ali about the latest movie and TV news, from who won what at the Emmys and what an earth is going on with this new animated Super Mario movie. As ever, things stay geeky and blockbustery - it's what we do around here - as Ace and Ali talk more about Shang-Chi now that, um, well, Ace has actually seen it. Often helps with film discussions, eh?
It's finally here: Ali talking to the one and only Daniel Craig about his time playing James Bond: 15 years of his life, from Casino Royale in 2006 to No Time To Die, his final outing as the superslick superspy, at long last out in cinemas here in the UK on September 30th, and in ‘theaters’ over in the US on October 8th. P.S. At times Daniel uses some adult language so if that sort of strong stuff might offend, maybe step away from the podcast.
Sex Education is back, and with it the opportunity for Ali to talk to some of his favourite people: the cast of Sex Education. Yep, it's as simple as that. The two brave souls willing to let Ali 'King Of Bad Pronunciation' Plumb mangle their names are Ncuti Gatwa (who plays Eric) and Chinenye Ezeudu (who plays Viv). Both are on brilliant form as they talk green screens, Americanisms and what 'new friends' say when they meet them for the first time.
Ali is joined by TV expert - and co-host of BBC 5 Live's 'Must Watch' podcast - Scott Bryan to talk through the best telly of 2021 so far, as well as what we have to look forward to for the rest of the year.
Karen Gillan needs no introduction, and yet... here we are, just in case. The performing artist formerly known as Amy Pond has appeared in the likes of the MCU (as Nebula), Jumanji (as Ruby Roundhouse) and that little tiny weeny sci-fi show Doctor Who. She's back in our lives on September 17th when her new fight-filled action-thriller (called Gunpowder Milkshake by the way) hits NOW / Sky Cinema in the UK. Here, as an early special treat for you special podcast listeners, is Karen's 'Story So Fa...
So much movie news, so little time: a new Bond trailer, a new Red Notice trailer, a new Ron's Gone Wrong trailer - so many trailers! - not forgetting the big one, The Matrix Resurrections. Plus, news that isn't to do with trailers, including a fresh batch of release date changes, Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air updates and much more. Oh, and Ali and Ace's new on air timings! Whip out your calendars, basically.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings finally hits cinemas - and only cinemas - this weekend, the 25th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe giving us a brand-new star in the form of Simu Liu. You'll hear from him here in this 'Becoming... Shang-Chi' interview special, made even more so by the addition of his director, Destin Daniel Cretton, as well as his co-star, Fala Chen.
You guys asked for it, you guys deserve it. Yes, after many, many polite requests for a return to reviews on this here podcast, Ali is back with a monster-sized review-a-palooza of all the biggest movies out this year so far. Shang-Chi is in cinemas this weekend as well, so there's a review of that as well at the end, but ultimately this is Ali and friend of the show Clarisse Loughrey digging through the summer's most sizeable releases and telling you fine folk what we thought about them.
It's the new Three Amigos! Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin, that is, who join forces for a new Disney+ / Star murder-mystery true-crime podcast show - you know the type - called Only Murders In The Building. They also, very generously, agreed to talk to Ali about making the show (amongst other things) in this anarchic and all-too-brief chat in which you may well be able to hear Ali actively losing his mind with happiness.
No Ali Plumb's Film Club this week - yep, we went there - as Ace stops by to get extra nerdy in this super geeky newsy edition of Radio 1's Screen Time that's almost entirely about the new record-breaking trailer for Spider-Man No Way Home. 355.5 million views in just 24 hours. Mind-boggling really. Ali's film club will return next week, but for now, listen to this - but maybe only after you've seen said trailer, eh?
Henry Golding - star of A Simple Favor, Crazy Rich Asians and Last Christmas - is now an action hero thanks to his starring role in Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. Here he talks to Ali about his sword skills, ninja skills, nunchuck skills and all sorts of other skills - as well as how to best backflip off a moving truck and fight someone in very wet weather - and comes across, as you'd expect, like an absolute dreamboat.
Ali is kinda-sorta still on holiday this week, but that doesn't mean you're going without a new 'Ali Plumb's Film Club', now does it? Stepping up is Jon Croker - screenwriter, raconteur and bon vivant - who you may remember from the Film Club on Raiders Of The Lost Ark, talking all sorts of nonsense about Martin Scorsese's gangster classic Goodfellas.
Jodie Comer stars alongside Ryan Reynolds in the new sci-fi action adventure Free Guy, and as she was in town talking about it, Ali jumped at the opportunity to actually speak to her, actually face to face. Actually. Look forward to some thoroughly silly nonsense about her favourite go-to dance moves and advert jungles she'll never forget - as well as, you know, her career. We promise that actually comes up as well.
Shaun Of The Dead! In Ali Plumb's Film Club! Finally! Desert Island Discworld host Al Kennedy stops by to point out that Ali's got red on him in this close-to-one-hour love letter to Edgar Wright's cult classic.
Stillwater is the latest from director Tom McCarthy, the man behind the likes of The Station Agent, Win Win and the Oscar Best Picture winner Spotlight. It stars Matt Damon - who you'll hear from, don't you worry - as well as Camille Cottin (of Call My Agent fame) and Abigail Breslin (who you know and love from Zombieland and Little Miss Sunshine). On this particular interview special you'll hear from all of them, talking about shooting in the south of France and being upstaged by a total newcom...
This week's Ali Plumb's Film Club is all about a modern action classic, Casino Royale. Yes, the 2006 one, not the David Niven one. Phew. Joining Ali to grill Bond is massive 007 superfan Neil Alcock, a man who really knows his Ms and Qs. Also as a little treat for you die-hard Screen Time fans is a return of the news section - remember that? - where Ali tries to briefly explain some seriously complicated studio legal wrangling. Sounds fun, right? Oh. Well... it is. Promise.
Ali speaks to friend of the podcast Kim Taylor Foster, who has literally written the book about The Matrix, all about the game-changing film franchise. Also, he has a hilarious interview with Emily Blunt, Dwayne Johnson and Jack Whitehall, who all star in the new Jungle Cruise movie.
