The After Movie Diner Podcast

Adrift in a Gilliam like wilderness on the lower west side of Manhattan, Battery Park City, our heroes Jim Wallace and Jon Cross take in the latest Stephen King adaptation, the long time coming, The Dark Tower starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey . Do they find it to be a faithful adaption? a good adaption? do they like it? do they hate it? You have to listen to find out. We talk about diff...

After a recent screening at the Metrograph cinema in NYC, Jon Cross and regular co-host Jim Wallace discuss the 1973 film Scarecrow starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.  They also talk about the acting, the direction, the photography, the film's influences, other similar works, the nature of male friendships and characters on film and why, sadly, there are too few female examples of the same kind...

We are back, after a summer hiatus during which we definitely did some soul searching, rum drinking and badger punching, back to make weird comedic sketches, talk movies and, hopefully, somewhere along the line, entertain you wonderful monkeys. On this, our return episode, fantastic guest and all round swell gentleman, Moeseph, joins Jon Cross to discuss musical sequels, that may actually be bette...

In this, the last Sleazy Spader Springtime episode, Jon Cross and co-host Jim Wallace discuss Storyville, a southern, swampy and sleazy courtroom drama starring our man James Spades and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, written and directed by Twin Peaks co-creator, Mark Frost. We discuss plot holes, mad hairstyles, the sleaziest of Spader stares, the fact he lives in a Flake advert, the sordid photography a...

Jim Wallace joins Jon Cross again for their third wade through the strange and sleazy swamp of James Spader.  This week they're discussing The New Kids in which Spader plays a flowery, western style blouse wearing cowboy villain in chic, grey boots and with bleached blonde surfer hair. It's most odd. He terrorises two orphaned army brats who live on their wheeling-dealing Uncle Charlie's Santa the...

For our second week of Sleazy Spader Springtime 2: The Sleazening, Jim Wallace joins Jon Cross to talk the early 90s thriller "Bad Influence" which, along with James Spader, co-stars Rob Lowe and Billy Zane's sister.  Bad Influence is an early script by David Koepp and directed by Curtis Hanson. We also answer your Spader questions, dispense useless movie trivia, dive through and splash around in...

AKA "THe perpetual waft of the sex sandwich" That time of year has rolled around again. Bunny rabbits are getting sexy, allergies are causing sneazes and James Spader is getting sleazy! It's A Sleazy Spader Springtime! 2: The Sleazening Yes, that's right, Jim Wallace and Jon Cross are back in the world of James Spader for another 4 shows and we kick it off with this year's first Spader-centric epi...

We are very happy to welcome dear friend of the show, writer & producer James Saito back to the show on the eve of the release of Herschell Gordon Lewis' BloodMania. James and, the godfather of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis were great friends and creative collaborators on BloodMania, the film that, tragically and sadly, became Herschell's last.  We talk about making the indie movie in Calgary, Cana...

On this show we are incredibly fortunate to have filmmaker John Portanova as our guest. John is a writer, producer & director with his company The October People. Their latest project "Hunting Grounds" (formely Valley of the Sasquatch) lit up the festival circuit for the last couple of years and now is getting its Blu Ray release on May 2nd. Order it here! or Rent it here! It's a tremendous, tense...

The eloquent, knowledgable and wonderful Marcus Pinn from PinnlandEmpire.com joins Jon Cross to discuss the madcap, 80s, MTV generation comedy, Tapeheads starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins. We talk The Swanky Modes, Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, shotgun art, mad Swedish keyboard bands, sexual perversity and more! We also talk about the 80s style of comedy and creativity, the work of Alex Cox, Ma...

"Ole it's Breast Farrago! - Just give me the boom boom!" Our regular, glorious co-host, Jim Wallace is back and, along with host Jon Cross, these two, taken, white males discuss the early 90s thriller Single White Female starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. We talk about the spate of mad 90s thrillers that there were, we talk about the nudity (quite a bit), we talk about the feminist a...

Mike White, host of the highly acclaimed, much appreciated and often reviewed podcast, The Projection Booth slums it this week amongst the ripped leatherette seating of The After Movie Diner.  We discuss Jack Hill's 1969, unfairly, rarely seen black n white film about existential angst, succeeding at any cost and figure eight racing, Pit Stop.  Recently released by Arrow on a glorious, cleaned up...

Jim Wallace joins host Jon Cross back in a diner, the Skylight Diner on 34th street to be precise, to talk about the latest horror/thriller from Blumhouse Tilt, The Belko Experiment. Written by James Gunn (Slither, Super and Guardians of the Galaxy) and Directed by Greg McClean (Wolf Creek) the film features a host of TV talent such as: John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, John C. McGinley, Owain Yeo...

Friend of the show, Scott Toomey, joins us to discuss Black Belt Jones and Black Gunn, two excellent and very different examples of the Blaxploitation era. There's a catch though, these are the first two he's ever seen!! With the help of host Jon Cross, who's seen many many of the era's finest (and not so finest) films, they take each film step by step from the light, chop socky, Bruce Lee inspire...

We are finally so happy and honoured to welcome Dee, Christopher (CJ) and Arris (DJ Tsu), better known as the 3 Black Geeks, on to the show! Along with host Jon Cross and regular guest Moe, we talk about the Blaxploitation classic Willie Dynamite! Its an episode that spans the globe from Japan to the United States and to England! We talk about the costumes, the music, the social relevance, the per...

To try and celebrate both Black History Month and Women of Horror Month, Doug Tilley joins Jon Cross to talk about 1973's Scream Blacula Scream which turns out to be a lot more socially aware and serious than you might think! We also talk about Pam Grier and the whole Blaxploitation era. There's also the usual comedy, music and trailers for Ice and the Face & Netflix and Swill You can find Doug Ti...

The boys are back in town! Yes, that's right, beardy wonder Moe e and your host, Jon Cross are, this week, discussing the Walter Hill, Eddie Murphy & Nick Nolte buddy cop, actio films 48hrs and Another 48hrs.  We also discuss Eddie Murphy's meteroic rise to superstardom and pretty catastrophic collapse into awful crap, we both do imitations of what Nick Nolte sounds like when he's trying to think...

Jon Cross is joined by podcaster extraordinaire, carpenter, stand-up comedian, american free liver and local legend, Jay Mayo to discuss the indie, weird, sometimes creepy, late 80s/early 90s supernatural sex romp comedy, Getting Lucky that found distribution through those bastions of bad taste and mad fun Troma. Yes it's the usual tale of nerd wants cheerleader but cheerleader's with a dumb jock,...

It was our great pleasure to speak to the world renowned cult filmmaker and thoroughly decent chap, Brian Trenchard-Smith all about his first cinematic feature, The Man From Hong Kong. The film was also the first Australian/Hong Kong co-production with the famous Golden Harvest studios co-producing with Trenchard-Smith, who also wrote, directed and has a stunt cameo in the film. The film, along wi...

Every New Year we assemble the same group of podcasting veterans: Moe e, Matt Payne, Doc Paul Crowson and Jon Cross to discuss a specific film series and/or actor and to make lots of crude but necessary jokes. This year, due to 2016 being such a massive flaming bag of horse effluent, it was even more important that we were as silly and irreverant as possible. So, laughs will be had and sensibiliti...

For those who have listened a while, you'll know that David DeMoss and Jon Cross have been covering the Marvel Cinematic Universe and other comic book movies for some time. After a break for quite a while David is back and discussing two of the most recent origin stories in the MCU, Ant-Man and Dr. Strange. We read out listeners comments, we discuss the troubles behind Ant-Man and director Edgar W...

This week Jim Wallace and Jon Cross are back in the Kellogg's Diner in Brooklyn to discuss the new Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood heist thriller, The Trust.   Far from being the usual fun, nonsense, straight-to-Netflix Cage effort, Jim and Jon discover The Trust to be an intelligently written, tension filled and entertaining movie filled with awesome performances. There's also comedy, music, listene...

Jon Cross talks to Kimberly Taylor all about the fantastic new supernatural, buddy cop, comedy, Slingshot Cops and then speaks to the duo behind the film, local legends Charlie Roxburgh and Matt Farley. We talk about their approach to screenwriting, the joys and hardships of indie filmmaking, expanding their cast, expanding their audience and what they plan to do next! You can find Matt Farley her...

Scott Toomey joins Jon Cross in The After Movie Diner to discuss three classic slasher sequels from three beloved franchises: Childs Play 2, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 & Halloween 2. We talk about what kind of screenwriter calls a female character Kyle, we try and remember why we thought Prom Night 2 was so awesome and we ponder why John Carpenter didn't just go ahead and direct Halloween 2. We...

This week we invite Doc Paul Crowson (Dr. Action) back on to the show but instead of discussing guns, ammo, explosions and Steven Seagal's expanding gut and knitted hair, instead we indulge another of our loves, comedy. Specifically the comedy of Woody Allen.  We discuss Annie Hall and Manhattan Murder Mystery which is sort of an unofficial sequel as it was put together using cut scenes from Annie...