The After Movie Diner Podcast

The After Movie Diner Podcast

Host, Writer, Singer/songwriter and purveyor of cut price jazz helmets, Jon Cross and a variety of considerably more impressive guest hosts mull over movies, comedically riff on a variety of topics and champion filmic underdogs. Home to In The Paré Way, Sleazy Spader Springtime, Woods and Weller, Caine and Keaton and more random VHS Vault picks than you'll know what to do with. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-after-movie-diner-podcast--758347/support.

Episodes

August 1, 2025 167 mins
New Action Showdown!

Strap in for fists, fury, and a whole lotta fun as Matt Poirier of Direct to Video Connoisseur and the DTVC Podcast returns to The After Movie Diner for a brand-new Action Showdown!

This round, host Jon Cross and Matt go toe-to-toe with:
🔥 DiabloScott Adkins brings the pain in this slick, high-octane, beautifully shot, action flick.
👊 A Working ManJason Statham trades quips, kicks and confused looks with g...
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The Paré Parade marches on!

This week on The After Movie Diner, we hop Into The Sun — the movie that dares to ask, "What if Top Gun crashed headfirst into The Hard Way... and Michael Paré and Anthony Michael Hall were at the controls?"

Then for the VHS Pick we slip on our Cannon Films shades and get sketchy with No Place to Hide, where Kris Kristofferson protects a young Drew Barrymore while Martin Landau lurks menacingly (and magnif...
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Matt Poirier from the Direct to Video Connoisseur is back again and we are back in the world of The Wings.... Wings Hauser that is!

We dip into the bizarro time when Cannon Films gave Norman Mailer money to make a movie out of his jokey, pulp, novella, ghost story, that he only wrote because his publisher's contract required one more book from him. Yes, that's right, saddle up your Ryan O'Neils and dust off your Isabella Rosselinis ...
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January 13, 2025 155 mins
Matt Poirier from the Direct to Video Connoisseur joins us to talk about the bizarre Michael Moriarty, Sonny Bono and Julia Louis-Dreyfus starring and John Carl Beuchler directed movie, Troll - listen to hear if Moriarty's wildly insane and embarrassing dancing beats that of Crispin Glover in Friday the 13th Pt. 4.

Then we get sweaty and swampy down south and see how many shitty silk shirts you have to go through to get taken semi-s...
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On a new sub-series and beautiful collaboration of The After Movie Diner and Cinema Beef Podcasts, Gary Hill and Jon Cross will dive into the career of one Mr. Michael Paré and every episode, still explore a second film that we came across on VHS.

We recorded part of Cinema Beef's Halloween episode with the Paré film Bad Moon, and you can find that - and every other episode - here.

On this episode we talk about DragonFight from 1990,...
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November 25, 2024 130 mins
In a slight change from our regular programming, the incredible, incomparable and utterly delightful Nic Meek-Whitehead joins us to discuss The Substance - the new Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley film from Writer, Director, Editor and Producer, Coralie Fargeat.

We discuss the nature of femininity in the media, vanity and the human animal, females relationship with male oppressors, body horror, practical effects, humour being the fli...
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October 27, 2024 202 mins
On this ALL NEW episode of the After Movie Diner we start down a new series where each week we will cover:
1. a movie I really should've seen but haven't, starring or made by somebody I am a big fan of
and
2. a weird find from my VHS collection

So to that end we are talking about The Kiss - a criminally under seen, gonzo possession horror from 1988 starring Joanna Pacula and Meredith Salenger and Soldier, the oft maligned, sci-fi flopp...
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This is incredible. 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! Basically the Wizard behind the curtain (or perhaps tiny mouse blinds - listen to the show) of all things sleazy spades, who has kept our mail bag filled low these many years.

It's a lot of fun and like Spader says all the time, it's best to go out on a BANG!

SUPPO...
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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!!

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Matt Poirer from Direct to Video Connoisseur, is back and we are delving into a weird, low budget, confusingly edited and bizarrely written entry into Spader's career - that might just end up being the only thing that explains everything and makes any sense.

We uncover the Spader Matrix Conundrum, Rediscover the powerful jazz tunes of Bingeing Scrubbs and we discuss the french detective series, Detective Ennui...

In general this is a...
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It's finally here and yes, it is most definitely Summer now - I don't care... I'm not changing it now.

Anyway this episode is one of the greatest Sleazy Spader episodes ever!

All sorts of things are discussed, questions answered, and yet we'll never have the full picture - we'll never truly know the one they call, Jimmy Spades.

This episode is funny, weird, wonderful, long, absorbent, thick, soft and easy on your behind.

We talk about ...
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When you truly fall in love with something, like Wings Hauser movies, the tendency is to push it as far as it'll go - and so, with our trusted, frequent and equally Wings obsessed co-host, Matt Poirier from Direct to Video Connoisseur, in tow, we head down the Hauser rabbit hole and discuss a wild sextet of his films, broken down into 3 double bills, essentially.

There's Dead Man Walking and Street Asylum
Mutant and Nightmare at Noon
...
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Our guest again is the Direct to Video Connoisseur himself, Matt Poirier and on the way to talking about the sheer, shouty genius of Predator 2, we solve toilets, we solve sports, we talk shop lifting drug stores, Seinfeld and Netflix joining forces to bring us a movie on Pop-Tarts, a shitty article on Physical Media, urban filmed action movies and lots more!

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The Direct to Video Connoisseur, Matt Poirier joins us again but, this time, we're talking all about Pam Grier with plenty of rambling segues about food, inspirational stories, babies and dogs on planes, female action leads, Barbie and more!

We're happy to be back with new episodes!!

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On this, the fourth episode in our run of Belushi tinged episodes, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier (of Direct To Video Connoisseur) talk a 90s Era Jim Belushi film - the very cosy, Capraesque and comedic Mr. Destiny co-starring Michael Caine.

This is the audio podcast version of the video live stream that aired on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch on Dec 19, 2023. If you become a supporter on Patreon you will have exclusive access t...
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On this, the third episode in our run of Belushi tinged episodes, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier (of Direct To Video Connoisseur) talk a 90s Era Jim Belushi Science-Fiction, Indie Action Spectacular Retroactive.

This is the audio podcast version of the video live stream that aired on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch on Nov 9, 2023. If you become a supporter on Patreon you will have exclusive access to all the videos there as YouTu...
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On this, the second episode in our run of Belushi tinged episodes, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier (of Direct To Video Connoisseur) talk yet another 90s Era Jim Belushi Erotic Thrillllerrrrr Separate Lives.

This is the audio podcast version of the video live stream that aired on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch on Sept 28th, 2023. If you become a supporter on Patreon you will have exclusive access to all the videos there as YouTube...
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On this, the first ever of its kind, Belushi tinged episode, gentlemen Jon Cross and Matt Poirier (of Direct To Video Connoisseur) talk 90s Era Jim Belushi Erotic Thrillllerrrrr Traces of Red.

This is a truncated podcast version of the video live stream that aired on YouTube on Sept 17th. If you become a supporter on Patreon you will have exclusive access to all the videos there as YouTube and other places are taking them down or re...
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THIS INTERVIEW WAS RECORDED BEFORE THE SAG/AFTRA STRIKE

The fantastic, funny and ridiculously talented William "Bill" Sadler joins us back on the Podcast for the third time, ten years after his first appearence!!

We talk about his recent, more independent films that he's been working on, Stephen King on screen, working with Karen Allen, his new album "The Kitchen Tapes" recorded during covid and featuring songs both serious and silly...
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This week we are joined by Dr. Action himself, Doc Paul Crowson but rather than talking explosions and round house kicks, we are traveling back to the heady, indie waters of the early 90s when everyone wanted on the Tarantino, Soderbergh, Linklater, Smith boat - even documentary filmmaker, Philip Haas who decided to adapt Paul Auster's The Music of Chance into a fascinating two hander between Sleazy Spader and Mandy Patinkin, suppo...
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