Radio 1's Screen Time

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 of The Girl On The Train. How time flies, eh?

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 Radio 1's Screen Time. Here's hoping Ali can cameo on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown soon, eh?

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 schoolyard fighting, chainlink fences and bottle rockets.

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 performances on camera. Joining Ali to do the film justice is friend of the show Clarisse Loughrey, someone who really knows her Luhrmanns.