Season 2 - Ep 20 - Tough Guys Don't Dance and Hologram Man
Matt Poirier from the Direct to Video Connoisseur joins us and we are back in the world of Wings Hauser! We dip into Cannon Films and talk Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don't Dance.
Then we are talking about the company that took the Cannon baton and ran with it, PM Entertainment and Hologram Man.
Living to Die
My written review for the PM Entertainment produced, Wings Hauser directed, Living to Die
Season 2 - Ep 19 - Troll & Delta Heat
Matt Poirier joins us to talk about the bizarre Michael Moriarty starring and John Carl Beuchler directed movie, Troll and Anthony Edwards is miscast alongside an always welcome, Lance Henriksen in the sweaty, action, VHS pick - Delta Heat
Season 2 - Ep 18 - In the Paré Way - DragonFight and Seizure
On this Gary Hill and I talk about the Michael Paré fim DragonFight from 1990, and our VHS pick, Seizure which is equally loopy but a lot more 70s is the first movie from Oliver Stone!
Season 2 - Ep 17 - The Substance
The utterly delightful Nic Meek-Whitehead joins us to discuss The Substance - the new Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley body horror/social commentary film from Writer, Director, Editor and Producer, Coralie Fargeat.
Season 2 - Ep 15 - The Pentagon Papers - Sleazy Spader Springtime 7: "Sleaze the Day" No. 4
Sleazy Spader comes to an end, potentially forever. So, who did we rope into appearing on the last ever Sleazy Spader episode? Why Andy Lunn of course! We cover the true story, political thriller, The Pentagon Papers featuring an early-ish role for Paul Giamatti but mainly we fixate on Spader’s hair… is it a wig or real and teased?
Season 2 - Ep 14 - True Colors - Sleazy Spader Springtime 7: "Sleaze the Day" No. 3
Moe Von Helvete née Porne joins me to talk about John Cusack and James Spader going head to head in a race to the top and political corruption in "Terrible White People in Connecticut" the Movie AKA True Colors!!
Season 2 Ep 10 - Predator 2 "Acceptable Losses"
The Direct to Video Connoisseur, Matt Poirier, joins us to talk about the sheer, shouty genius of Predator 2.
Season 2 Ep 8 - 2 Middle Aged Men Watch 90s Era Jim Belushi Films #4 - Mr. Destiny
On this, the fourth episode in our run of Belushi tinged episodes, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier talk a 90s Era Jim Belushi film - the very cosy, Capraesque and comedic Mr. Destiny co-starring Michael Caine.
Season 2 Ep 7 - 2 Middle Aged Men Watch 90s Era Jim Belushi Films #3 - Retroactive
On this, the third episode in our run of Belushi tinged episodes, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier talk a 90s Era Jim Belushi Science-Fiction, Indie Action Spectacular Retroactive.
Season 2 Ep 6 - 2 Middle Aged Men Watch 90s Era Jim Belushi Films #2 - Separate Lives
On this, the second episode in our run of Belushi tinged episodes, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier talk yet another 90s Era Jim Belushi Erotic Thrillllerrrrr Separate Lives.
Season 2 Ep 5 - 2 Middle Aged Men Watch 90s Era Jim Belushi Films #1 - Traces of Red
On this, the first ever of its kind, Belushi tinged episode, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier talk 90s Era Jim Belushi Erotic Thrillllerrrrr Traces of Red.
Sympathy for the Devil
Jon Cross sits down in a neon soaked diner with a seemingly scared Joel Kinnaman and a cherry red haired, wide eyed, wild man Nicolas Cage and sees if he has any Sympathy for the Devil. Read on to find out if this is one more movie to add to the Golden Age of Cage…
Season 2 Ep 2: Sleazy Spader Springtime 6: Easy Sleazy Does It - Matt Poirier, Ideas, Writing & Crash
Matt Poirier of Direct to Video Connoisseur joins us to talk Sleazy Spader, in the most graphical, sexual, ludicrous and mad film Spader possibly ever did, David Cronenberg's 1996 lilting soliloquy to gratuitous sex and car accidents, Crash.
Season 2 Ep 1: Matt Farley, Inspiration & the Pit
WE ARE BACK with SEASON TWO!
On this episode, we talk with Matt Farley of Motern Media, about inspiration, writing, ideas, the issues with indie filmmaking, the new book the Motern Method and the insanely odd movie, The Pit
Ep 353 - Donald Pleasence Double Bill - The Uncanny & House of Usher
Jon Cross and long suffering, regular co-host Jim Wallace bid a fond farewell to the podcast, back in an actual diner for the first time in 2 1/2 years, by talking a Donald Pleasence double bill of The Uncanny & House of Usher.
Episode 352 - Demonoid
Jon Cross and special guest Kirk Howle discuss the Mexican, possessed-hand, horror film - Demonoid
Re-Evaluating Ghostbusters 2016 and why it needs a bunch of sequels.
I re-watched the extended cut of Ghostbusters 2016 on Blu-Ray and something surprising happened, I liked it. So I decided to write something in its defence, while still maintaining my theory that all remakes are terrible and explaining why it needs multiple sequels.
Episode 351 - Gotcha! and Never Too Young To Die - Spy Kids and Teen Agents Part 2
Scott Toomey joins Jon Cross again, continuing their talk on 80s movies where kids and/or teenagers get embroiled in espionage and dragged into danger! Two such films are Gotcha! and Never Too Young to Die - hear us talk about these films and more on an all new episode!
Episode 350 - Caine & Keaton 6 - Johnny Dangerously & The Hand
Jon Wallace returns to the Diner podcast to revive, not just the show itself, but the Caine & Keaton series (dormant for almost 6 years at this point) to discuss Johnny Dangerously and The Hand.