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May 18, 2019 • 24min
Booksmart Interview Special: Olivia Wilde, Beanie Feldstein & Kaitlyn Dever
Your new favourite teen comedy – probably, can’t be certain of course – is called Booksmart, and it’s in UK cinemas on May 27. To celebrate, here’s a Screen Time interview podcast, featuring its director, Olivia Wilde, and its stars, Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein, talking about how they made this funny, clever, brilliant movie about two American teenagers coming to terms with what geeks they are by partying like they’ve never partied before... for one night only.

May 17, 2019 • 33min
Reviewed: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Ali & Ace talk about John Wick Chapter 3. Ali wonders if Keanu Reeves is the nicest man in movies, Ace is plugging for Tom Hanks or Will Smith (of course). Also a spoiler debate on the latest Game Of Thrones instalment - is it living up to Ali and Ace's expectations?

May 11, 2019 • 15min
Rebel Wilson Interview Special
Rebel Wilson chats to Ali about going from being movie fan and serving popcorn in her local cinema to becoming star of the big screen herself. Also working with Anne Hathaway and wearing a bin bag in The Hustle and her expanding autograph collection from the stellar cast of Cats.

May 10, 2019 • 41min
Reviewed: Pokemon Detective Pikachu
Ali and Ace chat about all the latest film and TV news including Game of Thrones, Endgame and IT Chapter Two.

May 4, 2019 • 22min
Lupita Nyong'o Interview Special: The Story So Far
Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong'o, star of Black Panther, Star Wars and 12 Years A Slave, talks to Radio 1's movie critic Ali Plumb about her extraordinary career and new movie Us.

May 3, 2019 • 32min
Reviewed: Extremely Wicked & Long Shot
Ali and Ace talk about Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile. A film starring Zac Efron as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and also Long Shot, a comedy with Charlize Theron & Seth Rogen.

Apr 27, 2019 • 25min
Avengers: Endgame SPOILER Special
Ali and Ace talk all about Avengers: Endgame – including spoilers – in this very special one-off episode. If you’ve not seen Avengers: Endgame, do NOT listen. If you have, well, come on in, the water’s lovely. Expect conversations about that moment, that other moment, not forgetting that scene you know we all love, as well as the one that made the whole cinema cry. You know the one. Again: the SPOILER ALARM HAS BEEN SOUNDED.

Apr 26, 2019 • 31min
Reviewed: Avengers: Endgame & Eighth Grade
This is a spoiler free podcast. It’s finally here – the film of the century but what is Ali’s verdict? Was it worth the wait? Ali also reviews coming of age teen drama Eighth Grade starring Elsie Fisher.

Apr 20, 2019 • 17min
Avengers Endgame Interview Special
Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd and the directors of Avengers: Endgame, The Russo Brothers, speak to Ali about, well, some pretty silly stuff, to be honest. Think bad haircuts, “the Thanus theory” and what the world should call Jeremy Renner and Paul Rudd’s blossoming bromance. You know, the serious stuff.

Apr 19, 2019 • 27min
Reviewed: Wild Rose
Ali reviews Wild Rose starring Jessie Buckley, James Harkness and Julie Walters and chats with Ace about all the latest movie and TV news: including a sequel to Tomb Raider, details on episode 9 of Star Wars and a little known TV show called err...Game Of Thrones?