The After Movie Diner started life simply as a film review blog/diary but quickly sprawled into a website featuring several podcasts, detailed film reviews, celebrity interviews and many collaborators and contributors. Take a look around, if you love movies of any kind then there's something here for you!
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Jon Cross and Jim Wallace hang out at Paul’s Da Burger Joint where they don’t serve tea but the server does seem surprisingly up on new technology - there, our intrepid duo talk about the inevitable despair of modern times and the 10 year reunion sequel, Zombieland Double Tap.
In the month of its 25th Anniversary, contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the meta horror film that started 90s meta horror, revitalised a franchise and allowed an original filmmaker to respond to the sequels that were out of his control, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.
Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire joins Jon Cross to discuss John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness from 1987
On this episode, the grumpy old men of podcasting, Jon Cross and Jim Wallace, talk about the grumpy old man of action movies, Sylvester Stallone and his new film as one of his most iconic characters, Rambo: Last Blood.
In her latest Fantastic Fest review, Lisa Gullickson contemplates being stuck in an empty pool for days, what kind of premise that is for a movie and how we’re all just one mistake away from having one of those “you’ll never believe this but…” stories. Read her review for Ping Lumpraploeng’s independent horror, The Pool.
Michael Campochiaro, the appreciator of the underappreciated, the excavator of the discounted and the curator of cult takes a look at what some consider the worst film ever made, the controversial, relatively new cult classic - Nurse 3D starring Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden and Judd Nelson.
Jon Cross sits down with Matt Farley of moternmedia.com and they do the important work of movie podcasters and talk the forgotten trilogy of late era slasher films: The Urban Legend movies.
Lisa Gullickson sends back another review from Fantastic Fest 2019. This time it’s the blood soaked and violent, romantic, drama First Love from filmmaker Takashi Miike.
Our roving reviewer down at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Tx. Lisa Gullickson had the luck and privilege to see the premiere of one of our hotly anticipated fall titles, Joe Begos’ VFW starring William Sadler, Fred Williamson, Stephen Lang and George Wendt.
Lisa Gullickson, reporting from Austin, TX, sends her first Fantastic Fest 2019 review of 80s nostalgia fest, family comedy and TV parody, Jack Henry Robbins’ VHYes.
Old friend of the show, fellow podcast, film journalist extraordinaire and all round groovy chap, Brad Gullickson from In the Mouth of Dorkness and Film School Rejects joins Jon Cross to talk ghosts, 80s politics, gross out effects, curses, Spielberg and Tobe Hooper rumours and much more when they take on The Poltergeist trilogy!
In the month of its 25th Anniversary, new contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the relevance and endurance of perennial favourite and topper of best-of film lists everywhere, The Shawshank Redemption.
Michael Campochiaro is back extolling the virtues of and waxing rhapsodic about those cult and B-Movie corners of the film universe. This time he is casting his gaze towards the stars and the excellently titled Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity starring genre icon Elizabeth Kaitan.
We talk Ready or Not, the new horror comedy starring Samara Weaving, Adam Brody and Andie MacDowell and all the great indie, genre films of 2019, in the Hollywood Diner, Chelsea New York.
Our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, is back and discussing both the upsides and downsides of the years in which Hammer movies were made versus the present time, especially with how it relates to the lighting in 1966’s The Reptile.
Jon Cross takes a look at the directorial debut of Jason Mewes - the Jay of Jay and Silent Bob - who has created a darkly comic, self reflecting, tale of Hollyweird insanity with a fun, eclectic cast in Madness In The Method.
Jon Cross takes a look at the new whacked out, weird, wonderful, scary, satirical and silly horror comedy Tone-Deaf, Directed by Richard Bates Jr. and starring Robert Patrick and Amanda Crew.
Jon Cross and Jim Wallace watch some women, 2 of which are famous people’s daughters, get attacked by blind, albino sharks amongst the Mayan ruins of Mexico in 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Jon Cross takes a look at the new British Folk Horror, Gwen, the feature film directorial debut of William McGregor, Starring the amazing Eleanor Worthington-Cox. Out on August 16th in the U.S.
Aaron Carruthers reviews the new UK Blu-Ray, CultFilms release of the French classic, Jean Becker and Sébastien Japrisot’s One Deadly Summer starring the César Award winning Isabelle Adjani.
