The After Movie Diner Podcast

Find out just how little Jim Wallace and Jon Cross know about wrestling and northern accents in this new episode of The After Movie Diner. Learn about the joys of a Skylight Frittata, insulting The Devons, finding a hair on your toast, enjoying Nick Frost, discovering the inner freak in you and so much more as our intrepid twosome sit down to eat fried junk and talk Stephen Merchant's Fighting wit...

Hear all about the exciting story behind our Peter Weller interview, learn about Booth Talk, our other podcast, and some fun stories behind some of those interviews and then hear us talk all about Alita: Battle Angel from James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez - what worked, what didn't and more! Please enjoy! CONTACT US and give us feedback at aftermoviediner@gmail.com , Call us on 347 669 0053 or le...

This week Jon Cross and Jim Wallace talk about Glass and M Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy Starring Bruce Willis, James McAvoy and Samuel L Jackson. We talk making superheroes interesting again, creating superhero movies on a budget, the wide range of accents McAvoy can deploy at a drop of a hat, why Bruce Willis doesn't even care anymore, what's wrong with modern society and much much more!...

Jim Wallace and Jon Cross, who had the excellent good fortune to see a preview of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot head off late at night to talk Sam Elliott, Ron Livingston, Larry Miller, pathos, regret, war, veterans, unique takes on life, heroism, politics, Hitler, Bigfoot, practical special effects and so much more while munching fried chicken. Enjoy! And you can hear Jon Cross t...

Our curmudgeonly hosts Jon Cross and Jim Wallace visit The Roxy Cinema in Tribeca to watch Nicolas Roeg's arty exploration of David Bowie's innate cool and oddness in The Man Who Fell To Earth. They then walk the frigid night streets of New York to find a diner to spill their guts about what they've seen, to find out how Jim became a bingo poet and to decree that you should put a fried egg on top...

The After Movie Diner is forever thumbing its sweaty nose at conventional wisdoms and the status quo, such is our disregard for society as a whole and late middle aged rock bands that wear dirty jeans and sport ponytails long passed a time when it is even remotely suitable. It is in this mindset then that we enter Sarge's Deli to discuss the "worst reviewed movie of 2018", Holmes & Watson starring...

So the New Year's After Movie Diner special gang are back with another trowel through the career of an actor you didn't know you didn't give a crap about. Returning guest hosts Moe Porne and Doc Paul Crowson are back with Jon Cross and this year are joined by Andrew Buckley! Hoping to find a potential lost gem, they subjected themselves to not one but four John Ritter films: Hero at Large, They Al...

This week our curmudgeonly, bickering, British duo Jon Cross and Jim Wallace get all fancy and rather than a grimy diner at the end of the night, they take lunch in a bistro - of all bleedin' places. There in the bistro they hammer out their Christmas episode talking about Mary Poppins Returns. They talk about what constitutes a bistro, how much returning is too much, whether the cockney magic of...

Jon Cross and his trusty co-host Jim Wallace are back! Back in the fake leather booth-ettes of a New York Diner discussing the new Peter Jackson produced and penned fantasy movie Mortal Engines. We talk about using remembered bodily functions as a form of GPS, we hear someone being violently ill in a bathroom and are surprised when someone loudly in a nearby booth exclaims that he's "spilt his wat...

This week Jon Cross and Jim Wallace are talking about the latest entry into the, now rather bloated, sub-genre of Nazi zombie films (itself an offshoot of the genre Nazisploitation), Overlord from Director Julius Avery and Producer J.J. Abrams.  We also talk about stuff we watched this week (including Apostle on Netflix), Jim's new book of poetry -  Are you hurtling towards god knows what? - havin...

This week we talk the new Gerard Butler, submarine set, action thriller, Hunter Killer, co-starring Gary Oldman and Common and we make a surprising and podcast world shattering discovery! We also spend a little time delving into our horror/Halloween viewing - including Urban Legends, Bloody Birthday, The Boogey Man and The Last Horror Film. There's also so-called "comedy" and music - so enjoy!  Fi...

This week we return with a slash and manage to squeeze our Halloween episode just in under the wire. Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk Halloween 2018 and we play the new rockin' sounds of The Big Heist and their new album MO75! We review Halloween 2018 starring, original Laurie Strode, Jamie Lee Curtis - we share our feelings on the movie, the cultural significance of it and the nature of reboots/rem...

Marvelous Matt Farley of Motern Media fame joins Jon Cross to talk Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures album "Former Glory" and the 80s Dan Aykroyd & Chevy Chase buddy road movie Spies Like Us. Matt and Jon discuss the wonderful musicians that appear on Former Glory, the stories behind the songs and the pressures and joys of indie music production, distribution and marketing. They also talk the movie...

Yes it got rotten reviews but Jim Wallace and Jon Cross were intrigued enough by Brian Henson's R Rated puppet comedy noir, The Happytime Murders starring Melissa McCarthy and Maya Rudolph to go check it out. Was it worth the gamble? listen to find out! We also start a new section "just the tip" where Jim and Jon give you their tips for living, talk about the mastermind behind The After Movie Dine...

With a bloated budget, an international cast headed by, none other than, The Stath and a plot that sounds like it was ripped from the notes at a SYFY Channel Producer's brainstorm, Jon Cross and Jim Wallace take in The Meg! Can a film be called a Summer sleeper hit if it clearly went money crazy with its advertising? I don't know but it certaily came out of nowhere and became quite the must-see, g...

So here it is, we have come to the end of Hammer Horror month and what better way to end it but to run off to the circus... the Vampire Circus that is! Usual hosts Jon Cross and Jim Wallace slink on down into another grubby diner booth to talk about the Hammer Studios' 1972 vampire film.  Along the way we find out about Jeff Ruben, inventor of a very specific ruben sandwich, monkey bellhops and th...

It's the third episode of our Hammer Horror series of podcasts and hosts Jim Wallace and Jon Cross are discussing bad bat puppets, problematic day for night shots, repetitive pub scenes, the bizarrely named female characters, some dodgy "sex comedy", Christopher Lee's mad face and so much more while reviewing 1970's Scars of Dracula. There's also comedy, music and a far too long discussion about w...

Jim Wallace and Jon Cross are out and about in the city of New York yet again discussing Hammer Horror Films. This week they talk Peter Cushing as the titular baron in The Evil of Frankenstein.  They talk dodgy accents, Roger Moore impersonators, that bloke from Inspector Morse, dodgy make up effects, is it a remake or a sequel to a movie that never existed, dropping a gut pie, film critics who pr...

Jon Cross and Jim Wallace start a month long dive into Hammer Horror films with their 1957 film The Abominable Snowman. We get a fantastic email from Dr. Fuzz, we talk the wonder that is The Abominable Snowman, the nature and struggle of English identity, nostalgia reigns as we remember back when we first became aware of Hammer and we, of course, wax rhapsodic about the legend that is, Peter Cushi...

Hosts Jon Cross and Jim Wallace suffer trials, tribulations and hardships unnumbered to take in the 50th Anniversary screening of Beatles animation classic, Yellow Submarine. It also happens to be the 7th Anniversary of this very podcast!  We talk about what the movie, the music, the art and more means to us, how we grew up with the film, how it changed over time and never really stop complaining...

In an all new diner for the show, The Washington Square Diner near West 4th, Jon Cross and Jim Wallace talk the 1951 film noir On Dangerous Ground starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan having watched it at the Roxy Cinema in Tribeca.  We also learn about the notorious New York City rats that have infultrated every corner of power, we thank some new Patreon supporters, explain how the weather makes m...

Regular co-host Jim Wallace joins us back at The After Movie Diner to talk about Walter Hill's debut feature - depression era, New Orleans set, hobo boxing picture Hard Times starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Hear us as we discuss Jim's wet superhero nemesis Geography Man, Jim Wallace's "Give 'em a sandwich" theory of screenwriting and we define Walter Hill's trademarks while failing trul...

Rick Mancrush & Marc James, from the Poop Culture Podcast, drop by to talk James Spader's first starring role in schizophrenic 80s gem, Tuff Turf which co-stars Robert Downey Jr. Is it the 1st movie in the MCU? why's Spader's Dad such a bum? what's with the dart guns? just who are Jack Mack and the Heart-Attacks? is James Spader lip-syncing the most disturbing thing you'll ever witness & much more...

The marvelous and hilarious Doc Paul Crowson joins Jon Cross to discuss Steven Soderbergh's debut film Sex, Lies and Videotape which, we think, cements James Spader as the king of sleaze. Co-starring with Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell and Laura San Giacomo, S, L and V stands as one of the first of a new wave of late 80s/early 90s indie movies and Spader relishes his role as the wayward and perv...

Jon Cross is joined this week by Moe e from No-Budget Nightmares and Dee Shaw from 3 Black Geeks. These 3 intrepid sleaze-ologists wade through the choppy, filthy waters of 2001's sex farce, "comedy" Speaking of Sex from John McNaughton, the filmmaker who gave us Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Girls in Prison with Anne Heche and Ione Skye (that's real... look it up). Starring James Spader,...