The Screening Room

In this weeks episode Rutvig Vaid is joined by filmmaker and returning guest, Sam Jeffries.  The pair deliver a comedy I mean, commentary track for the erm, critically acclaimed, underrated classic, Robocop 2!   They chat all things Robocop (and how good the *original is), Sam's love of Uwe Boll, and the colour of Robocop's helmet amongst other things.  All whilst sipping on a sweet, sweet **Budwe...

In this week's episode, host Rutvig Vaid is joined by illustrator, cartoonist and all round artist, Nicholas Diak AKA Lumberjack Nick.  Nick is best known for his Star Wars illustrations - which can be found across his many online platforms - but is also the person responsible for The Screening Room illustrations.   We talk about his career, his past projects and his thoughts on the hit animated s...

In this week's episode, Rutvig talks to actor and super tall person (7'1"!) Ross Sambridge. Ross performed as one of the Snoke body doubles from the film Star Wars:  The Last Jedi, as well as playing a Wookiee slave in the spin off film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. The original interview was conducted in November 2018, so the discussion doesn't touch on anything learned in The Rise of Skywalker. But...

This week's episode sees host Rutvig Vaid talking with artist Joe Corroney, who's widely know for his work on the Star Wars license, as well as Star Trek and Doctor Who among others.  They discuss Corroney's career, his work with Lucasfilm and and on the Star Wars franchise, as well as some chat about the DCEU and the supposed JJ Abrams cut of The Rise of Skywalker. Enjoy!

In this long time coming episode, host Rutvig introduces a series of interviews recorded (by Rutvig and Patrick O' Leary) back in 2017 at London Super Comic Con with comics artists and writers.  They speak to comics creators Guillermo Ortego, returning guest (even though technically, this was his first time on The Screening Room) James Lundy, and visiting Greek creators Nikos Koutsis, Stefanos Pap...

In this week's episode, Rutvig catches up with actor Keith De'Winter.  They reminisce about the Star Wars Episode 8 The Last Jedi (aka Space Bear) wrap party as well as talk about Keith's varied acting career, where Keith recalls landing the job on The Force Awakens and his first day going in for fittings.   

In this special episode, host Rutvig vaid pays tribute to the late actor Irrfan Khan.  He talks about Khan's work in The Darjeeling Limited, The Amazing Spider-Man, Jurassic World and The Life of Pi. The quotes in this episode are referenced from Facebook, Twitter and this Guardian article:   https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/29/bollywood-star-irrfan-khan-dies-aged-53  

Welcome to Star Wars Topps Artists Episode 2: Revenge of the Fifth!  Or is it Sixth?  I don't know, you decide. In this second episode celebrating 'Star Wars Day', host Rutvig Vaid talks to more fellow Topps sketchcard artists Barry 'Baz' Renshaw and Matthew Stewart about their education, art careers and their love of Star Wars.

In this special episode, host Rutvig Vaid talks with fellow Star Wars Topps Sketchcard Artists Kevin B. Cleveland, Jamie Richards and Danny M. Kidwell. They chat all things art, Star Wars and sketchcards. May the Fourth Be With You.

Join host Rutvig Vaid as he talks with British filmmaker Adam J. Spinks (Spaceman, Carrion, Extinction) about making films on no-to-low budget, the trials and tribulations of the festival circuit and Adam's recently released short, Like Glass (available now on Amazon).

In this belated Top 5 of 2019 episode, host Rutvig Vaid waxes lyrical about his fave films of last year, as well as introducing a couple more lists including his 'Don't Care List'!  Listen as he moans about stuff, gushes about stuff and generally warbles on as per usual.  Films talked about include Terminator: Dark Fate, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Shazam, Booksmart, Stuber, Jay &...

After another long hiatus, Rutvig is back with another episode of The Screening Room.   In this episode, Rutvig talks about the Mike Edmonds (Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Time Bandits) biopic, Under the Radar:  The Mike Edmonds Story and shares a recording of the Q&A session that followed the films' premier at Raindance Film Festival last month in London's West End.  The film features...

In this week's episode of The Screening Room, Rutvig Vaid talks to James Burns of JediNewsUK about last April's convention, Star Wars Celebration Chicago.  They discuss the teaser for Star Wars Episode 9:  The Rise of Skywalker and James talks about the new Disney Land attraction Galaxy's Edge, as well as the panels for Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, the game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen order amongst o...

After a longer than scheduled break, Rutvig Vaid returns to The Screening Room with British Asian Stand-up comic, actor and impressionist Anil Desai.

In the second of this 2 part tribute to artist and filmmaker Elliott Ashton, I talk to Catherine Taylor about her experience working alongside Elliott on Attack of the Aliens, and their friendship in general.   Farewell Elliott.  I'm grateful for knowing you.   

In this weeks episode, I attempt to pay tribute to a friend, Elliott Ashton, who sadly passed away in September of 2018.  Elliott was a multi talented creative.  A visual artist, VFX artist, writer, director and producer.  I chat with actor and friend of Elliotts, Ben Macleod.  Ben talks of his time working on Elliotts wonderful animated short film, Attack of the Aliens which you can watch for fre...

To kick off our second series, I took my brother, Chirag Vaid to a special screening of The Room at the Prince Charles Cinema in London's Leicester Square.  In this special Valentines episode, we recorded live at the event (so please excuse the noise), sharing our expectations before hand, and our thoughts after the screening.  Did we think The Room was truly a disaster, or an absolute work of gen...

In this, the Season Finale of The Screening Room, host Rutvig Vaid goes through his top 5 films of 2018, based on his extremely limited viewing experience this year.   The Screening Room will return in February of 2019 with Season 2, which will include interviews with British comics writer and artist, John Higgins (The Killing Joke, Watchmen, 2000AD), Hollywood graphic designer Jenn Moye (The Walk...

In this bonus, Christmas special episode, Rutvig Vaid talks to actress Arti Shah (Star Wars, Attack the Block, Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Guardians of the Galaxy) about some of her fave Christmas films.  And about time too, given that they are married! So, you'd better not shout, you'd better not cry, you'd better not pout I'm telling ya why...'Artie Shaw' is comin' to town! Wishing you all a...

Norton James joins us in The Screening Room this week as we watch Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1.  Norton was the body double for Chris Pratt / Star Lord.  Listen as Norton talks us through the film, providing behind the scenes info on how they shot this incredible entry to the MCU.   So get ready to hit 3, 2, 1 oh wait.  I forgot to count you in on this one!  Doh! And be sure to check out our new...

In this weeks episode, Rutvig Vaid and guest co-host Patrick O’ Leary watch 4 randomly picked shorts on Vimeo with guest indie filmmaker Sam Jeffreys.  Originally recorded in late 2017, join us as we watch and discuss the films, as well as hit on topics that are now, quite frankly, old hat (but, unfortunately, always relevant)!  Log on to vimeo.com and search: Patrick O’ Leary picked: Past the sec...

Mumbai based actress, writer, director extraordinaire Tahira Nath joins Rutvig in The Screening Room this week to watch and talk about her latest (co) writing project, Zoom Studios' brand new Indian sitcom, Imperfect.  The pair provide a commentary track on the 22 minute (primarily English) pilot episode, whilst catching up AND reading some comments from the viewers themselves. Did someone say Wes...

In this special episode of The Screening Room, Rutvig Vaid is joined by James Lundy (Edinburgh ComicCon, Hero Talk Rebirth Podcast, Wired) and Costas Karaiskos (AthensCon) as they remember the late, great, Stan Lee.

This week, we hear from numerous guests that attended MCM ComicCon at the London Excel Centre on 26th October.  Ziki Nelson and his colleague Hamed talk about their indie comic, Kugali Anthology while host Rutvig Vaid notes Ziki's striking resemblance to Donald Glover.  This is followed by a conversation about Star Wars with Bostonian, Frank D. Rich of Star Wars Autograph News, where Rutvig and Fr...

Turner Classic Movies Programmer, Hemrani Vyas joins Rutvig Vaid in our special Halloween edition of The Screening Room, in which they provide a commentary track for Wes Craven's 1996 slasher classic, Scream.   Listen as they cringe, yelp, giggle, jump, cringe some more, ooh and aah their way through the film.   So line up your copy and hit (3, 2, 1) PLAY!