Movies: Ali Plumb

In May 2025, 100s of people gathered outside London's iconic Prince Charles Cinema to watch five Nicolas Cage lookalikes battle it out in a competition to celebrate the release of new Cage film The Surfer. A question lingered: what must it be like to...

Plunge into exciting, strange and beautiful animated worlds with Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb as he celebrates the new breed of animators whose short films include malicious toasters, cheeky Glaswegian pigeons, job-haunting ghosts and incredibly sme...