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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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.
Michael Campochiaro always does the important and vital work that all film fans require - like confirming, through extensive research, whether it is Demi Moore’s bottom on the notorious I Spit On Your Grave poster or not…
Read to find out!
The After Movie Diner’s editor and creator, Jon Cross announces and discusses his pick for filmmakers of the decade - the New England based, independent, local legends Matt Farley and Charlie Roxburgh.
Aaron Carruthers gets to speak to John McPhail director of Anna and the Apocalypse, the zombie, horror, comedy, musical which is now streaming and available on Blu-Ray.
After weeks and weeks of sheer head scratching nonsense regarding Scorsese’s comments about Marvel in an interview with Empire magazine and on the day he published an opinion piece in the New York Times, I have decided to put an end to it all by simply adding to the pile of irrelevant column inches written about this non-story.
Jon Cross shares and discusses the announcement of a new horror and cult streaming service from MVD Entertainment and Rue Morgue - Midnight Movie Society
Aaron Carruthers talks to Michael Madsen about his varied career. From being in films by PM Entertainment to working with Directors like Ridley Scott, Roger Donaldson and Quentin Tarantino. He talks about being in a Bond film, getting drunk with Lawrence Tierney, the potential for a Vega Brothers movie, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and lots, lots more.
Our roving reporter, Aaron Carruthers, while at the Edinburgh Film Festival, got to chat with Actor/Writer/Producer Angus MacFadyen about his controversial new film Robert The Bruce and the career that lead to it.
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 roving reporter, Aaron Carruthers is off to another exciting event to talk to the stars of the 1980s - For The Love of the 80s, part of the Scotland Comic Con - learn all about the event here and look forward to Aaron’s coverage coming soon!
Our excellent movie maven, Lisa Gullickson went to Fantastic Fest and, after a screening of Halloween (2018), came back with this great think piece on the nature of the victim in slasher films…
Lisa Gullickson, her 8th year at San Diego Comic-Con reports, not only on a life affirming moment for one fan with Jamie Lee Curtis but the importance of Laurie Strode 40 years on, and why fans flock yearly to the con.
Our roving reporter Aaron Carruthers attended Wales Comic Con and got to chat with the legendary Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster franchise, Toy Soldiers, Another 48hrs, Air Force One) about his career, his beer and his beef with a local water company…
Contributor Aaron Carruthers had the pleasure of talking to Aliens, The Shawshank Redemption and The Departed star Mark Rolston at the Film and Comic Con. Read their conversation here.
An article in which I set out to review a single movie and instead examined and extrapolated on my fandom for the one and only Donald Pleasence. Welcome to Pleasence Watch 2018!
Michael Campochiaro, one of the most dedicated Michelle Pfeiffer pfans, has written about a pfantastic Pfeiffer performance in Mike Nichols' Wolf. It's a perfect film to revisit in light of current events.
New contributor Aaron Carruthers had the pleasure of talking to Aliens & Near Dark star Jenette Goldstein at the Film and Comic Con Glasgow in August 2017. Read their conversation here.
