Join Radio 1’s resident film buff Ali Plumb for movie news, reviews and extra behind-the-screens fun.
Ali and friend of the show Clarrise Loughrey chat in depth about Don't Worry Darling, one of the most talked about movies before it was even released. Warning: The latter part of this podcast contains spoilers, so why not pop down to your local cinema and see the movie before listening.
It may have come out in 2004, but Sam Raimi's second Spider-outing with Tobey Maguire remains one of the very best superhero films ever made, and with Spider-Man: No Way Home being a year old soon enough - as well as reappearing in some cinemas with bonus scenes - now felt like a good time to take a trip to Ali Plumb's Film Club to talk about the movie in spoilerific detail. Joining him for a trip down web-slinging memory lane is comedy rising star Jordan Gray, who's recently been taking Edinbur...
An actual, genuine, totally real romantic comedy motion picture is in cinemas right now and its name is Ticket To Paradise. It feels like it's been a while, and frankly, for fans of the genre, the return of all that 'Will they, won't they?' is just wonderful to see. The fact that both George Clooney and Julia Roberts are in it is the icing on the cake, two absurdly charming human beings slumming it with our Ali as they talk about shooting in Australia, 'Bat-nipples' (you'll see) and why Ocean's ...
September 21st finally sees the Rogue One prequel, Andor, premiere its first three episodes on Disney+, telling the story of how the oh-so-sneaky thief Cassian Andor ended up becoming a spy working for the Rebel Alliance. Directed and written by the one and only Tony Gilroy, it looks to be a somewhat more 'grown up' adventure in a galaxy far, far away, and talking all about that on this particular Screen Time interview special we have Mr. Gilroy himself, as well as our lead, Diego Luna, plus Den...
There's been an absolute tonne of movie and TV news lately, so much so that Ali got back into a room - face to face, can you imagine it?! - with good ol' Ace to talk it all through. Fair warning: there is an absolute avalanche of information coming your way about Marvel releases, Rick And Morty and maybe even a bit of Knives Out 2. Elsewhere, we've got interviews with the folk behind Clerks 3 - namely Kevin Smith, Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson and Jason Mewes, so there's a whole tonne of fun t...
Typically, Radio 1's Screen Time spoiler specials talk about finales, or at a stretch, final seasons (or series!) of shows. But... when it comes to Better Call Saul, Ali and Matt - a fellow superfan - decided to try to tackle the whole goshdarn lot. Yes, there's an emphasis on the most recent episodes, but they hop, skip and jump around the whole Breaking Bad Universe (is that a thing? Let's say it is) so consider the spoiler siren thoroughly sounded.
After years and years of nodunnits - Does that work? Probably not, let's move on - it seems as if there are more and more comedy crime capers coming out, with See How They Run the latest whodunnit to hit cinemas. This one has an incredible cast, including Saoirse Ronan and Sam Rockwell (who you'll hear from today), as well as Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, Reece Shearsmith, David Oyelowo, Charlie Cooper, Tim Key and more. Plus! It's directed by This Country veteran Tom George, it's set in the 1950s ...
If you've not seen the latest in the Predator franchise, we highly recommend watching Prey - on Disney+ in the UK, Hulu in the US - before you listen to this particular Radio 1's Screen Time spoiler special, where Ali gets to speak to the director of the film itself, one Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, The Boys), dissecting the movie in spoilerific detail with the man who actually made those spoilerific decisions. Things get geeky quickly - in the best possible way - with such topics as '...
Good news, Lord Of The Rings fans! The Rings Of Power is / are finally here, with Amazon Prime Video's megabudget adaptation of the events of the Second Age of Middle-earth now streaming - well, the first episodes, anyway. As a LOTR fan who has even travelled to New Zealand to 'climb Mount Doom' (aka 'walk the Tongariro Crossing'), Ali was ready and able and very much willing to speak to some of the cast of this new Hobbity adventure, including our new Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and our new Elron...
It's been a little while since we last met up for Ali Plumb's Film Club, but boy are we back with a bang this week as Ali teams up with fellow online film aficionado Dan Murrell (of Honest Trailers and Schmoedown fame) to talk about The Godfather. Yeah, we're not messing around, no sir. As ever, spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of watching Francis Ford Coppola's classic, but if you just want to hear two movie geeks shooting the breeze, there's also a good few minutes of that ...
Friend of the show and all-round great guy Josh Horowitz stops by BBC Radio 1's Screen Time this week to talk about his first impressions of House Of The Dragon, why we're seeing two BIG film releases being delayed and what we should get excited about at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. But wait, there's more! Games Of Thrones, Fast And The Furious and Maze Runner veteran Nathalie Emmanuel also has a quick chat with Ali about her new horror thriller The Invitation, because as ev...
Game Of Thrones is back on Sky Atlantic / Now. Okay, okay, it's back in prequel form (just to be clear), and with it come such names as Matt Smith, Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Emma D'Arcy, Emily Carey and many more. Speaking to everyone they'd let him shove a microphone in front of, Ali tries to avoid spoilers - as ever - when talking about a show that begs to be spoiled in almost every way. Sure, it's set 200 years before the events of the original Game Of Thrones and we kinda know what will...
Tatiana Maslany is the Emmy-winning actress who is perhaps best known for her work as numerous clones in the excellent sci-fi series Orphan Black - but now, it's safe to say - her portrayal of Disney+'s latest Marvel hero She-Hulk (aka Jennifer Walters) will propel her to even higher heights. Joining her on this She-Hulk Screen Time interview special are her director, Kat Coiro, and the writer-creator behind it all, Jessica Gao, one of whom happens to have written one of the best Ricky & Mor...
The Sandman is a much-loved series of graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman (see also: Stardust, American Gods, Coraline and Good Omens with Sir Terry Pratchett) and it's finally - after two decades lurking in Development Hell - been turned into a TV show, now on Netflix. Tom Sturridge stars as the titular character, all cheekbones and black robes, who embodies the concept of storytelling and dreaming in a world that also features Death, Despair, Desire and many other anthropomorphic personifica...
Nope is, at long last, finally in UK cinemas after already being released in the US and elsewhere three or so weeks ago. On any other Friday, that would be the biggest news going but after the shocking revelation that the Discovery and Warners merger has resulted in a 90% complete film, Batgirl, being thrown in the bin, Ace and Ali had to get together to discuss that that first. So! It's a podcast of two parts: Batgirl first, then a brief Nope chat that leads into an interview with the incredibl...
Thirteen Lives is the latest from Ron Howard - our legendary guest on this particular Screen Time episode - a movie that tells the tale of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, with Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell as British cave divers Richard Stanton and John Volanthen respectively. Look forward to listening to Howard remark upon Ali's much-loved Rush t-shirt, as well as underlining just how tricky it is to recreate and shoot complicated cave dives, especially when the actors themselves want to d...
Bullet Train is in cinemas this weekend, an action comedy kinda-sorta violent cartoon that stars our guests for this particular interview special podcast - Brad Pitt, Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor Johnson - and is directed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw, John Wick).
Ali catches up with interviewer extraordinaire and deadpan delight Amelia Dimoldenberg - of Chicken Shop Dates fame (and much more) - as they talk shop, sharing stories of speaking to famous people and somehow getting away with it. Oh, and talk about The Devil Wears Prada, can't forget that, as the Ali Plumb's Film Club choice for this week. All right, everyone. Gird your loins!
A tonne of big news stories landed last weekend, fresh from San Diego Comic-Con, so here's Ali - never knowingly on time - with his thoughts just a week later. Since then we now know who's directing the new Avengers outing - Shang-Chi's Destin Daniel Cretton - and loads more headlines will have arrived BUT ANYWAY, not to worry, we've also got interviews with Dylan O'Brien and Zoey Deutch about their new film, Not Okay, a dark comedy that'll make you think differently about social media. No but r...
Who doesn't love Emily Blunt? She's one of those utterly charming, truly gifted human beings who's been in a wide variety of big screen releases, including Sicario, Mary Poppins Returns, Jungle Cruise, The Devil Wears Prada, Edge Of Tomorrow, Looper, A Quiet Place and much much more. In this throwback episode of the podcast, we dig into the vaults just one more time to unearth a 2016 - can it really be from 2016? - Movies That Made Me conversation that first hit the airwaves around the release o...
Ali is talking to himself - as he sometimes likes to do - in BBC Radio 1 towers about two of the biggest movie releases out this weekend, namely The Grey Man (on Netflix) and Where The Crawdads Sing (in cinemas), before cuing up someone he seems to have a massively geeky crush on: the legendary etymology angel that is Susie "Dictionary Corner" Dent. Yes, two of the nerdiest people you know talk about the origin of words - movie words! - in the second half of this entirely unique episode of BBC R...
Another one from the interview back catalogue this Sunday, and it's a gem: the forever charming Steve Carell talking about some of his biggest big screen hits over the years, from Anchorman to The 40 Year Old Virgin. If you'd like more Steve Carell in your life, don't forget that the new Minions movie is in cinemas now, but honestly, that's by the by - you want him chatting from way back in 2018, when the world was young, don't you? Of course you do.
Thor: Love And Thunder is in cinemas right now, the 29th feature-length entry in the Marvel Cinematic Unvierse, so Ace and Ali have got together to try to work out why the critical response has been so, well, mixed. As ever, if you've not watched the movie already, back away from this here podcast, but if you've seen Thor and The Mighty Thor and Korg and King Valkyrie and Gorr (and the rest of the gang) do their thing, play on and regret nothing.
Split into two parts and boasting some huge episode runtimes, the fourth season of Stranger Things delivered even more scares, even more heart, even more everything than ever before. Now it's landed on Netflix in its entirety, Ali and Screen Time's unofficial horror correspondent Louise Blain step up to their respective microphones to try to come to terms with what they've witnessed, with free rein on the spoilers - you have been warned!
The 29th big screen entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe swings into multiplexes this weekend with Thor Love And Thunder, aka Thor 4, aka Th4. Ali was lucky enough to speak to Chris Hemsworth a few months back, and now he's had a chance to chat with The Mighty Thor herself, Natalie Portman, as well as her costar Tessa Thompson and the madcap director behind it all, Taika Waititi.
Chris Hemsworth is always a good laugh, but things can get a little tricky when you haven't seen the film, the trailer, the poster... Pretty much anything to do with the film you're meant to be talking about. So please enjoy this "interviewing on hard mode" chat between Ali and Chris, ostensibly about Thor Love And Thunder, but... Well, you'll see.
That Ali Plumb guy is off on holiday so it's fine to delve into the archives and dust off a classic. The man chosen is the glorious human being that is Jeff Goldblum, star of The Fly, Jurassic Park and a couple of Independence Days to boot. So while Ali's off to Edinburgh, enjoy one of the most charming people on the planet. And Jeff, of course.
Director Scott Derrickson - of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Doctor Strange and The Day The Earth Stood Still fame - reunites with his Sinister star Ethan Hawke for a new supernatural '70s horror-thriller based on the short story The Black Phone by Joe Hill. Both Scott and Ethan are brilliant talkers - as Ali sometimes likes to say - so here are a couple of interviews that dig a little bit deeper than your average 'What mementos have you taken from from set?' fare, promise. Expect discussions of s...
Baz Luhrmann, the man behind Strictly Ballroom, Australia, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby returns with Elvis, his hip-shaking biopic of The King Of Rock 'N' Roll that sees relative newcomer Austin Butler transform into the man, the myth, the legend that was Elvis Aaron Presley. On this episode of Screen Time you'll hear the likes of Luhrmann and Butler talk about how they brought his Memphis mansion Graceland to life, as well as how they shot so many eye-catching, toe-tapping...
Ali recently watched comedy-drama Big Boys on Channel 4 and found himself thinking "How can I get more people to watch Big Boys so I can talk to more people about Big Boys?" Yes, the name is a play on 'Big boys don't cry', so you're right to expect a show that tackles grief and depression, as well as coming out, finding yourself at uni, making friends and surviving university generally. If you've not seen it, see it, but maybe before you do, listen to a bit of this podcast special dedicated to i...
