I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss

CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic discuss B-Fest 2025 . This is perhaps the best B-Fest line up CatBus has seen, and from the sound of it, the best his big sister has attended. And A&O Productions earned these accolades because the line up did not make it out to the public until at least an hour and a half before this 24-hour movie marathon kicked off. I Dig Crazy Flicks was able to be the last m...

The host of " Baking While Baked ", Andrew "Couchman" Tiede , returns to the show to discuss the feature that put Kevin Smith on the map, " Clerks ". CatBusRuss and his guest determine this is a feature about trying to find one's own identity. And, since these two make a living as customer agents, how this film serves to remind them not to take life too seriously, and always have a true hustle too...

Cats and pandas come to the rescue this week on  NinetyForChill.com . They are the perfect companions to CatBusRuss 's announcement that " I Dig Crazy Flicks " will be hosting a panel at the Indiana Comic Con. Back in May of 2022, " Turning Red " was released to physical media, so  Russ found that we have a Pixar movie with the ideal runtime. That amused him for one night, but the greatest amuseme...

CatBusRuss ventures to Fan Expo New Orleans 2025 to host his first podcast panel of the new year, and he could not have asked for better guests than local podcasters TJ & Plaideau from NOLA Film Scene . This was the first panel these hometown actors have starred in and this was the first in person roundtable discussion Russ has been able to post on this podcast. It was a learning experience fo...

Not a perfect day in New Orleans for CatBusRuss . He did not set his alarm early enough to catch the Anthony Daniels panel and convention center food is not how he wanted to sample Cajun/Creole cuisine. But he was a little more social thus providing more potential for " I Dig Crazy Flicks " in the future. Thank Brian Plaideau for the shove there. He is still a little shy when it comes to approachi...

CatBusRuss made the 17-hour train ride to New Orleans to try and outshine the "40th Anniversary: Back To the Future" cast reunion panel. With the backing of TJ and Plaideau from the NOLA Film Scene podcast, surely there would be an audience despite the stiff 7 pm panel competition at Fan Expo New Orleans . No one can deny the " I Dig Crazy Flicks " fighting spirit. But, most of our host's friends...

It is a new era for " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast ". CatBusRuss insists that 70 to 100 minutes is the ideal runtime for most movies, but when something topical comes along, it may capture his or potential guests' curiosity. If it is crazy enough, the film may grab hold of the collective attention, at the very least Russ 's. Welcome to the " I Dig Crazy Flicks " era of the podcast. It allows for...

Last week (12/23), CatBusRuss talked about movies that he would like to see take on " Coraline " as his best sub 100-minute film discovery of 2024. One of these films was " Shredder Orpheus " which, after he chatted with ThePoeticCritic and consulted HappyBeebsMeowMeow , determined that the skater-punk, shot-on-VHS take on Greek mythology was not going to top the Henry Selick classic. Our host pur...

It might be an overstatement to suggest that ThePoeticCritic is miraculous, but she allows for this year (and this incarnation) of " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast " to conclude the only way CatBusRuss would allow it. That is with a guest. This was a near last minute arrangement, so the two siblings will not be chatting about a movie. They will be reviewing their experiences from this year in cinem...

Ninety for Chill 200 will drop on Monday, December 2 3 , 2024. Thanks for all the support. ThePoeticCritic  is back and focused to start spreading that Christmas cheer. She fondly looks back on the holiday offerings that bring joy to the world indiscriminately while  CatBusRuss  focuses on the cynical side of the season with films like Dennis Leary in "The Ref" and Bill Goldberg in "Santa's Slay"....

If Jesus gets Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a Merry Mark L Lester Xmas needs two nights...or podcast episodes. Michael Dubois makes his NinetyForChill debut as a contributor and we tackle Mark L. Lester's 1985 action classic, "Commando". This is the feature that was created give some humanity to Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Michael thinks it maybe the Governator as his most wooden. Perhaps he sho...

CatBusRuss is still looking for a guest for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast 200!". Until then, it will be a tribute to one of the directors who called for the establishment of the NC-17 rating who aspires to be the next Roger Corman, Mark L. Lester . Gregory Carl had an aspiration to release a Jean-Claude Van Damme & Rob Van Dam podcast, so he was more than welcomed to talk action movies on thi...

It is the time of #SpotifyWrapped, so it seems appropriate to do a best of the year list for Ninety For Chill: The Podcast . But that is something CatBusRuss would like to save for Episode 200. Spotify's annual review of listening habits actually inspired our host to look back to the past. He failed to add his 2021 and 2022 "Top Songs Lists" to his library. That is something he will not allow to o...

CatBusRuss decided to dive into some of his purchases this year. He explores half of his first Vinegar Syndrome order, the 1973 horror comedy " Arnold " and a classic he picked up on iTunes which was nearly his top discovery of 2020, the 1972 Bruce Dern sci-fi vehicle " Silent Running ". Marrying corpses for inheritance loopholes and a conservationist space movie prove the seventies were a special...

ThePoeticCritic  was kind enough to grace us with her presence to focus on the 2003 Will Ferrell classic, " Elf ", and the near 20 years since that have been without a Christmas classic. Of course, being a bonus episode, CatBusRuss cannot help but taint the holiday spirit by adding reviews for " The Zombie Diaries " and the weird Natasha Lyonne horror "comedy" from IFC Midnight, " Antibirth ". And...

It only seems appropriate to recognize the duality of Tim Burton's most beloved story, " The Nightmare Before Christmas ". Thus, why not look back on Ally (of Ally's  Accessories Shops on Etsy 's Trash Feature Revues) and  CatBusRuss 's conversation about the underappreciated animation director Henry Selick 's best remembered feature? Merry Christmas =^_^=

1987 may have been the peak of eighties horror. The Tommy Jarvis trilogy had concluded and Freddy was not going to top his bout with Patricia Arquette. Few would argue that neither of those franchises had what it took to surpass "Evil Dead II". The wise thing to do would have been to ride on Sam Raimi's coattails. In steps Kevin Tenney with " Night of the Demons ".

Andrew "CouchManBakes" Tiede ⁠ must have been sure that ⁠ CatBusRuss ⁠ was going to get his panel approved for Fan Expo New Orleans 2025 ⁠ . Why else would he have requested to cover perhaps the best narrative ⁠ Jean-Claude Van Damme ⁠ had ever starred in, ⁠ John Woo ⁠ 's " ⁠ Hard Target ⁠ "? That is presumptuous statement, but would it not be great for " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast " to have pr...

CatBusRuss  is not really a Thanksgiving fan. The high school wrestling season started that weekend, so enjoying the feast was not really an option. Granted,  NinetyForChill 's host grew up a picky eater, so the holiday did not really offer anything for him. Let us not even get into familiar anxiety. Horror may be too extreme a term for the fourth week of November, but then came his career in cust...

If you need a director to provide you with a perfect 90 minutes of cinema, your best bet maybe David Cronenberg . The past two years on  NinetyForChill.com , the best features  CatBusRuss  has found were helmed by this Canuck composer. Here, Russ offers his thoughts on three classics from the master of body horror: " A History of Violence ", " Rabid ", and " Naked Lunch ".

CatBusRuss 's Blue Snowball was enough to capture the vibe of 2024's Twin Cities Con . Our host and his big sister, ThePoeticCritic introduced Minneapolis to " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast " and after a little time, they got a pretty good crowd who were more than willing to give the two some "Wahoos". Of course, Russ did not have his resources to recall that Crowley quote correctly, so it may hav...

CatBusRuss wraps up the last two days of Twin Cities Con and does his best to provide drunken affirmations to his guest for " Ninety For Chill: The Panel ", ThePoeticCritic . This may have been the most patience his big sister ever displayed to him. Our host decided to open this bonus episode of the podcast with tales of day three of the con, which was not much more than the Brian Posehn and some...

CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic have settled into Minneapolis to prepare for " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast " at Twin Cities Con . Of course they are taking advantage of the weekend passes they were provided in exchange for the fried gold they are to deliver on Saturday, November 9. ThePoeticCritic was content with the floor, a "What If...Doctor Who" panel, and karaoke. CatBus was scouting out oth...

With Twin Cities Con this weekend, CatBusRuss is promising a lot of content for " Ninety For Chill " before next Wednesday. In the meantime, our host decided to make sure that all of the Stuart Gordon directed features that he has come across makes his current podcast feed. " Robot Jox ", " Castle Freak ", and " Dagon " are all low-budget bangers. And after Russ brings up the 2013 no-budget stinke...

It was not a very scary "spooky month" for " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast ", but CatBusRuss can deliver on finding guests who can provide monsters to enjoy. Brandy "HappyBeebsMeowMeow" Stonum returns to the podcast to discuss her favorite movie of all time, " Labyrinth " from Jim Henson . Brandy remembers this film fondly. She was only two when the film came out in 1986, but it had such an impact...