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!
Our plucky hosts, Jon Cross & Jim Wallace wrestle with the David Bowie starring, 70s cult classic, Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth, what works today, what doesn’t, the difference between arty and just plain crap and putting a fried egg on everything!
For his 50th Hammer Horror review, The Bloke Down The Pub talks about why 1958’s Dracula AKA Horror of Dracula remains the quintessential Hammer film and the benchmark by which all others are measured.
Also we reveal The Bloke Down The Pub’s true identity!!!
Lisa Gullickson starts her Sundance Film Festival reviews with a powerful and important documentary on mental health - Bedlam, the documentary passion project of Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD
We have the exclusive, official trailer for Apollo 11 from director Todd Douglas Miller. A cinematic event fifty years in the making.
Jon Cross delves deep into the sprawling, dense and delightful masterpiece that is MO75 Vol 1-3 by The Big Heist and comes out an enriched and changed man.
Jon Cross talks to Robert D. Krzykowski, the man behind The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot starring Sam Elliott. A film which may not be all that it seems from that title!
Mill Creek Entertainment are releasing brand new 4k transfer Blu-Rays of the Andy and Arlene Sidaris cult classics Malibu Express and Hard Ticket to Hawaii soon!
Walk outs, poor reviews and twitter outrage - all for a silly comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C Reilly - it appears that, even during the supposed season of good will, nobody has any left for Holmes & Watson… Except maybe two British loud mouths in a New York diner…
Host Jon Cross, for our New Year’s special, is joined by Moe Porne, Doc Paul Crowson and Andrew Buckley to talk the career of John Ritter.
Our intrepid hosts Jon Cross and Jim Wallace find themselves in a bistro mistakenly named The Harold discussing Mary Poppins for reasons of Christmas or something… Listen ont…
Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk Mortal Engines while being bombarded by sounds, surrounded by strange people and with a weird preponderance of bodily functions and fluids. Enjoy.
The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, sometimes does things a bit backward, like reviewing the first part of “The Karnstein Trilogy “, 1970's The Vampire Lovers, last. Delight as he struggles not to go on and on about bleedin’ Tudor Gates!
Our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, wrestles with bonkers plot biscuits and the looming spectre of the BBC in his review of 1967’s Quatermass and the Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth.
Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk nazi zombie film Overlord, Netflix’s Apostle, getting older, being grumpy and lots more!
One of the biggest, weirdest and wonderful movies of the 1980s was Gremlins and it made a star out of its leading man, Zach Galligan and meant that we never looked at microwaves or stairlifts the same way again. While at Comic Con Scotland’s “For the love of the 80s” event, Aaron Carruthers got to chat with Galligan about Gremlins and a lot more!
Our roving interviewer and contributor Aaron Carruthers was in Scotland this past weekend at the “For the love of the 80s” convention and got to talk to Robert MacNaughton about his experiences making one of the biggest movies of all time - ET: The Extra Terrestrial.
Our Hammer loving Bloke Down The Pub is done with debating whether or not it’s strictly a Hammer film and instead wants to talk about what kind of film 1961’s The Shadow of the Cat is!
Lisa Gullickson takes a look at original, claustrophobic and tense thriller, Gustav Möller’s The Guilty.
We talk the new Gerard Butler, submarine set, action thriller, Hunter Killer and we make a surprising discovery! We also delve into our horror/Halloween viewing - including Urban Legends, Bloody Birthday, The Boogey Man and The Last Horror Film.
