I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss

With B-Fest occurring this weekend (March 6 & 7, 2026), CatBusRuss feels there can never be too many monsters to chat about around Northwestern's annual event. So he reached back in the original " Ninety For Chill dot Com: The Podcast " feed for his first conversation with the crew of the B3 Podcast . Rae and Ween join the then Cool Movies Darth to discuss James Whale 's most...

CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic get ready for B-Fest 2026 by having a conversation about an overblown b-movie premise, " Kpop Demon Hunters ". The feature is about to get a blu-ray release. Our host does not have an issue with that. What he takes issue with is that it gets to hold a spot in the Criterion Collection . Russ would refer you to Screen Junkie's Honest Trailer for this feat...

Like the "Great American Bash" in the late eighties, " ⁠ I Dig Crazy Flicks ⁠ 's" 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match: Stallone v. Arnie v. The Cannon Group ( ⁠ Dudikoff ⁠ , ⁠ Bronson ⁠ , Norris) continues its tour. It had arrived at GalaxyCon St. Louis on October 12, 2025. ⁠ CatBusRuss ⁠ was joined by ⁠ Nix Eclips ⁠ of ⁠ Cinema Shitshow ⁠ to determine who was the TRUE ac...

CatBusRuss returns to the " Ninety For Chill Dot Com: The Podcast " archives to discuss five films from the original "Scottish" hero, Christopher Lambert . He hopes Henry Cavill and Chad Stahelski will provide genre fans with a great reboot of the " Highlander " franchise, but when are we going to get an actual Scotsman to portray the title role? When are we going to...

CatBusRuss returned to Morton, IL to visit his family which includes his big sister, ThePoeticCritic . If it is not a comic convention or film festival, the two rarely have schedules that allow them to record a podcast together in person. Thus, our podcast host was happy to rap with her about the poor state of the box office. It is hard to nail down when the older sibling got jaded against Disney....

For CatBusRuss ⁠ and  ⁠ "Couchman" Andrew Tiede , UI-Con truly kicked of for them at 8 pm on Friday night. The convention had taken a break from panels to let the visitors kick it to Otter Chaos and to prepare for the anime-themed rave. In other words, if you were there to be nerdy, the evening panels were where you wanted to be. Even if some may have lacked that Japanimation flair. This...

CatBusRuss and "Couchman" Andrew Tiede may have felt like Frank Dux and Ray Jackson walking into Kowloon for the Kumite when they arrived at the UI-Con . There was too much anime cosplay to feel like they belonged. Would they need to demonstrate the Dim Mak to show they were the right kind of nerds? For those who feel this description is not appropriate since anime is not from Hong Kong,...

Jason Parker offered up a lot of options when he petitioned to be the first guest on " I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss " in 2026, but the first one he offered was " Caught Up " starring Bokeem Woodbine . It fit the standards of " Ninety For Chill ". After watching " The Breed ", CatBusRuss determined that this under-appreciated actor is good in anything,...

While watching the 74th Anniversary of the National Wrestling Alliance (August 28, 2022) Gregory Carl  blessed  "NinetyForChill: The #Podcast"  with his presence again to discuss Ralph Bashki 's " Fritz the Cat ", the "first" X-Rated animated feature and the most successful independent animated film of all time. This is a movie that discusses a lot of issues that...

CatBusRuss successfully survived all three days of Fan Expo New Orleans 2026 , and has stories to tell and a Joel Schumacher tale from Jamison Newlander . Do not worry. There is enough fun stuff to be discussed that you will forgive our host resurrecting the disastrous " The Crow (2024) ". Having to get up early to catch the Billy Boyd panel, Russ took it as easy as he could when dealing...

CatBusRuss was waiting for panel approvals that did not come. But as he waited, he checked out the room rates available during the Fan Expo New Orleans weekend. Under $150 a night in the Big Easy was too good to pass up. Hence, our host is off on his first networking and promotion trip to a comic con. How well is Russ doing promoting " I Dig Crazy Flicks "? Not as well as Brian Plaideau...

" I Dig Crazy Flicks's " last stop on its 2025 comic convention tour was the debut of GalaxyCon St. Louis . CatBusRuss is out to further promote the concept that the ideal runtime for feature-length cinema, 90 minutes, with " Ninety For Chill: The Panel " . To help him present his thesis, he is joined by Nix Eclips , co-host of the " Cinema Shitshow ". The two pod...

2025 had left CatBusRuss joyfully busy this year with " I Dig Crazy Flicks ". Busy to the point where he cannot stand the idea that Apple Podcast will claim that the podcast is updated "biweekly". To make sure 2026 starts off well, our host watched one more new (to him) movie and brings back another fun episode from the original " Ninety For Chill dot Com: The Podcast " feed. The title of this epi...

Jess McCord, co-creator of TTRPG "Skies of Fortune" , left GalaxyCon Des Moines 's edition of " Ninety For Chill: The Panel " with a suggestion for an anime that best represents the premise of " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast " . CatBusRuss had been hearing about " Pompo: The Cinephile " from Jess before he met him in Iowa's capital city. Presuming th...

CatBusRuss did not intend to pull out an episode from the archives, but with the passing of Rob and Michelle Reiner on Sunday (December 14, 2025), he felt it was important to keep them in our minds and in the proper light. Rambling Ronnie and ThePoeticCritic kept their language at a "PG-13" level during this conversation about Reiner's debut feature, so our host hopes that he did not make this a "...

The feature that CatBusRuss is revisiting was originally titled " 3615 code Père Noël ", but is also known as " Game Over " , and " Hide and Freak " . It only feels appropriate to have so many titles when you take into account that the Cannon Group handled the international distribution of this film. The title of "Deadly Games" at least secures it a place on...

CatBusRuss might need to do some research because this may be the last Merry Mark L. Lester Christmas . Last year, he covered what maybe perhaps his most memorable films, " Showdown in Little Tokyo " and " Commando ". Our host is prepping for a 1986 panel to tour the comic cons, so maybe he will get around to watch " Armed and Dangerous " to compare and contrast with...

CatBusRuss was doing his best to enjoy Chicago TARDIS . ThePoeticCritic has done her best to get him to invest in " Doctor Who ", but sixty years of content and everyone having their ideal Time Lord (or Lady), he was very much lost in the Westin of Lombard. The most fun he had the first day may have been spent in his hotel room watching " A Whisker Away ", an anime exclusive on...

ThePoeticCritic is having a good time at Chicago TARDIS , but CatBusRuss is not quite feeling it. This is indeed a convention DEDICATED to " Doctor Who ", and our host is not the target audience. It is a neurospicy neighborhood. Russ has his eccentricities, but he also has patience and a degree of innate empathy. Make this crowd wait, and this crowd wants their true feelings known. This...

CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic did not have a traditional Thanksgiving. If you want to stay at the hotel that is hosting Chicago TARDIS , you gotta check in on the night dedicated to the false narrative of pilgrims and natives. Thus, where are you going to get a meal when all the restaurants are closed? The answer, head to Lombard's AMC Dine In and watch a family flick. For the older Stevens...

It is Thanksgiving Week, and CatBusRuss is very thankful for the opportunity to interview the writer/director of " Cuisine de la 'Pocalypse ", Kyle Weingart . If you want a story about good food in a desolate land, this is a far better tale than the white washing of colonialism's effect on Native Americans. "Cuisine de la 'Pocalypse" stars Kevin Jack as Chef John. J...

This is the conclusion of CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl 's conversation about the most politically-minded movie from The Horror Master John Carpenter , 1988's " They Live ". Being a film that stars Rowdy Roddy Piper , these two marks (an underemployed wrestler and a wrestling podcaster) will have their pro-wrestling tangents, but they have paid enough attention to the film to recog...

CatBusRuss is dedicating this week to the film that truly opened him up to the works of "The Horror Master" John Carpenter . This was a frequent post WCW Nitro/Thunder movie back during the Monday Night Wars. Featuring Keith David and Rowdy Roddy Piper , our host does not consider it the best Carpenter flick, but it maybe his favorite. If David had a role in " Big Trouble in Little...

CatBusRuss headed to GalaxyCon Des Moines to see if the capital of Iowa could help determine who was the baddest action hero(es) from forty years prior. 1985 was the last year where action movies were celebrated solely for being violent. One liners are fun, but chaos reigned supreme. Sylvester Stallone may have had the box office with " Rocky IV " and " Rambo: First Blood - Part II...

CatBusRuss originally thought that this week would be a simple #RewindWednesday release, but as he was going through the " NinetyForChill dot Com - The Podcast " archives, he noticed that he had crammed a couple of classics from John Carpenter into the summer of 2022. So every other week this November will be dedicated to "The Horror Master", and this podcast will kick the them...