Movies with Rhianna

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.

The most incredible cast - truly - has been assembled for Amsterdam, featuring Chris Rock, Zoe Saldana, Mike Myers, John David Washington, Anya Taylor Joy, Taylor Goshdarn Swift and many more... including our interviewees today, Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and Rami Malek. Here you'll hear about glass eyes, early plastic surgery and singing with one of the biggest popstars in the world.

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 Edinburgh festival by storm (as they say), and is no stranger when it comes to comic book movies, not by a long chalk...

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 13 is one of George's favourite movies. And that's not all, as they say, with co-stars Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd and Lucas Bravo also along for the jet-setting ride.

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 Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Genevieve O'Reilly and Adria Arjona. It's a bumper one this week, we know!

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 to be had with this episode, let us assure you...

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 and looks absolutely gorgeous. Ronan and Rockwell are both on fine form in these interviews, so listen up, and be sure to keep an ear out for clues - and lassos, amazingly.

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 'the best movie taglines ever', odd musical instruments and, you know, Prey itself, cropping up. And again, we can't be any clearer about this: SPOILERS FOR PREY ARE CONTAINED HEREIN.

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 Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and, as they say, many more. So, with every attempt made to avoid spoilers, here's a moderately silly conversation with close to a dozen Tolkienistas, recording just days ago in London - note Lindon, to be clear.