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:
🔥 Diablo – Scott Adkins brings the pain in this slick, high-octane, beautifully shot, action flick.
👊 A Working Man – Jason Statham trades quips, kicks and confused looks with goons a plenty in this gritty, blue-collar beatdown.
💥 Black Creek – Cynthia Rothrock’s long-awaited passion project, her martial arts, revenge heavy, western, finally lands, and it's got fights, heart, and an ayahuasca trip with a donkey!

From VOD sleepers to modern action gems, we break it all down with deep dives, detours, and plenty of love for the genre.

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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 magnificently) in the background.

Special guest Gary Hill from the Cinema Beef Podcast joins us for the ride — buckle up, it’s gonna get weird!

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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 and get ready to get seriously weird with Penn Jillette, as head off to the Twin Peaksian world of Tough Guys Don't Dance.

Then we are blowing shit up, shooting lots of guns and dressing up in our own, incredibly life-like, rubber skin as we take a futuristic ride to PM Entertainment Town and visit with The Hologram Man - because the Hologram Man can and he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.

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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-seriously as an "L.A. Cop" on the streets of Louisiana, when really you look like a low level pimp or hustler from the prisons of Cuba, as Anthony Edwards is ridiculously miscast alongside the always worth the price of admission, Lance Henriksen in the VHS pick - Delta Heat

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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, in which Paré stars with Robert Z'Dar, James Hong, Charles Napier and Buck Flower and is some sort of post apocalyptic, corporation driven, fight to the death, Z'Dar fuelled madness and our VHS pick, Seizure which is equally loopy but a lot more 70s and happens to be the first movie from a certain Oliver Stone

All this and more on a jam packed brand new episode of The After Movie Diner!!

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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 flip side of horror, Bobby Davro and Jack Bauer.SUPPORT INDIE CREATIVES Subscribe and/or leave us a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts - Our show is on all platforms, take a look!

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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 flopperooni from Paul W. S. Anderson, starring Kurt Russell

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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!

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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 LIFE CHANGING episode of the podcast and we can't wait for you to listen!
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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 the SidNEIGH LuuMAY joint, Critical Care. It's a lot of fun.

Nobody reads these.

I'm wasted here.

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and check out Matt on his own show and blog: Direct to Video Connoisseur.

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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
and a couple of PM Entertainment classics - The Art of Dying and Living to Die

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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 to all the videos there as YouTube and other places are taking them down or restricting some content at the moment.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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, political, romantic and thought provoking, and a tremendous, name dropping tale of the time Dweezil Zappa borrowed his guitar.

He also gives me advice on making my own movie and leaves us with a little bit about working with James Spader.

The episode has it all, there really is, something for everybody.

"The Kitchen Tapes" comes out on August 1st and will be available to stream and purchase everywhere - Apple, Spotify, Bandcamp etc.

Buy the single Thoughts and Prayers right now!

Keep an eye on https://therealwilliamsadler.com/ because not only is William Sadler and excellent and fascinating dude, but also they will be releasing his album on vinyl and CD on that site, signed by the man himself - with all the profits going to Saint Jude’s Children’s Cancer Research

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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, supported by a who's who of indie darling character actor favourites.

We talk the film, take a trip to the sleazetorium and find out about a very special charity that Spader runs...

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