Ali Plumb
Acting
Biography
Ali Plumb is a British film critic, journalist and broadcaster. Since 2016, he has served as the film critic for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, where he reviews new releases and interviews actors and filmmakers. He began his career in student journalism and later trained in magazine journalism before moving into professional film reporting. Plumb previously worked for Empire and was Movies Editor at Digital Spy. He also presents the BBC interview series Movies with Ali Plumb, featuring conversations with prominent figures from the film industry. Plumb has publicly expressed particular enthusiasm for the Paddington films and has mentioned that he owns several plush toys of the character.
Known For
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.
Pointless Celebrities
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 smelly fungi. Stylistically, the films include a beautiful pen and ink evocation of Manchester architecture, a super-real, digital recreation of the human body and all points between. Fanny Eaton: The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Model; Headless Population; It's Not the End of the World; It's Raining, It's Pouring; Job Haunting; Mirrors; Noise; Songs of the City; Spirit Corp.; The Gift; When the Tides Went Down; Glas & Gorm; Stinkhorn; The Last Train; Wheeze; What Is Love?
Get Animated! BBC Introducing Arts
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 look like Nicolas Cage?