Radio 1's Screen Time

Will Ferrell? In a Christmas film? Inconceivable! The artist sometimes known as Buddy the elf teams up with Ryan Reynolds for Apple TV+'s festive musical outing, Spirited, a toe-tapping take on the classic Christmas Carol story. Here you'll hear from Will himself as well as his co-star Octavia Spencer, not forgetting their director Sean Anders. Ho ho ho and so forth.

The Menu hits cinemas this weekend, a thriller-horror-psychological... food film, you might say? As in, a film about food. Ralph Fiennes plays an all-powerful chef who invites a select group of foodies to a night they'll never forget at his remote island restaurant. Here stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult tell us all about it - as well as Mad Max Fury Road and much, much more...

Connor Swindells may be best known for his performance as Adam Groff in Sex Education, but his new role as SAS founder David Stirling in the BBC's SAS Rogue Heroes may take over that prized position. Here's a chat with the charming so-and-so that touches on what to expect from Sex Ed series 4 and how to best survive a desert shoot in the baking heat when sand gets absolutely everywhere. Top tip: turn the air con off. Seriously. Now you know.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is finally here: the 30th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the long-awaited follow-up to the box office-busting worldwide cultural phenomenon that was the first Black Panther, which came out back in 2018. This is an interview special in honour of the film - featuring writer-director Ryan Coogler as well as some of his cast, including Winston Duke, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o and more - touches on the passing of the late, great Chadwick Boseman as well as what it was like to be caught up in the maelstrom of Black Panther mania when the first film came out.

A short and sweet conversation with Aimee Lou Wood - of Sex Education fame, sure, but she was in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, let's not forget, and lots of theatre too - for you this Sunday, as we celebrate her first lead role in a motion picture: Living. A remake of the Japanese classic Ikiru, it stars Bill Nighy as a bureaucrat with a terminal illness, and Aimee as his work colleague that starts to bring him out of his shell. It's a real winner this one, well worth seeking out, as Aimee herself will tell you...

The cast for the Enola Holmes movies on Netflix, well, it's a little bit ridiculous. Eleven herself, Millie Bobby Brown, might have been enough, but you've also got Henry Cavill (as Sherlock, no less), Helena Bonham Carter, David Thewlis and Sam Claflin (in the first film, at least). Speaking from New York last week - just after that big Superman news dropped - both Millie and Henry were on great form, getting very geeky about reality TV shows and fantasy novels. Wonder if you can guess who was getting geeky about what...

House Of The Dragon has wrapped up its first series and now all us Game Of Thrones fans are left waiting well over a year for the next episode to land in - gulp - 2024. To help assuage the pain, Ali has teamed up with friend of the podcast Steffan Powell (formerly of Radio 1's Newsbeat, now the BBC's Gaming Reporter) for a bit of low-on-expertise-but-high-on-enthusiasm spoilerific chat about the GoT prequel. You know, just the way we like it here at Radio 1's Screen Time, eh?

Ali is back, back, back and now he's now longer feeling unwell, hooray! To celebrate, here's a cheeky little Friday episode of Radio 1's Screen Time, featuring a short but sweet news section before a delightful conversation with Bros stars Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane. If you've not heard much about Billy "Billy On The Street" Eichner's gay rom-com, well, things are about to change as Ali is a FAN and this gloriously giddy interview very much proves it.

Baz Luhrmann is the visionary, legendary, incomparable director behind Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, The Great Gatsby and this year's Elvis, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. Ali was lucky enough to talk to Baz face to face for a good half hour, touching on everything from 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)' to his favourite shots in his own films. So if you love films - and let's be honest, it's a pretty safe bet you do if you're reading this - don't think twice: press play and regret nothing.

Ali is joined by comedian, writer and super friend of the show Kiri Pritchard-McLean to talk about their mutual love for Australian psychological horror, The Babadook.