I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss

⁠ CatBusRuss ⁠ ⁠ will be honest. Between Kaiju and Hammer Dracula, this spooky season has not been to scary on " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast ⁠ ". With it being a Rewind Wednesday, our host decided that his and Kodiak Thompson's conversation about ⁠ Paul W.S. Anderson ⁠ 's greatest feature, " ⁠ Event Horizon ⁠ " might set things straight. And then ⁠ Russ ⁠ considered that a new " ⁠ Venom ⁠ " feat...

The King of Monsters demands his spot in spooky month. ThePoeticCritic returns to Ninety For Chill to discuss what is truly scary about kaiju. International politics and Western adaptations. CatBusRuss gets to learn the history of " The Return of Godzilla ", a legacy sequel/reboot of the Toho franchise. The two discuss whether or not the giant monsters are only scary to kids, the under appreciated...

Based on some stalking of  ThePoeticCritics's Letterboxd  profile,  CatBusRuss  was able to get on the same page for an impromptu podcast recording in October 2021. What we get is a discussion of which "Dracula" was the better between Hammer's Christopher Lee and the director or "Short Circuits" Frank Langella. They have a conversation of all things Dracula before Francis Ford Coppola gave us the...

CatBusRuss was unable to secure a guest this week, but thankfully has some leads on some experts of spookiness. This left our host relying on his streaming services to warrant tax write offs for I DiG CRAZY FLiCKS . Here he discovered that after the "Twilight Saga", studios are making some wild choices when it comes to vampires on the big screen (43 inches and up). Netflix had the official dawning...

NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast  is starting  Michael Dubois 's proposed Gene Wilder trilogy by discussing his favorite movie of all time,  " Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory " . At least, it was his favorite coming into these recordings. Can two ultra-left anti-capitalists watch a feature about the Howard Hughes of chocolatiers and leave with the same respect that they had f...

It is only appropriate that for episode 187, the podcast will be about films from a gangster rap founding father, Ice Cube . He is a man so hard, that you never see him get killed on screen. CatBusRuss verified this on the Cinemorgue Wiki . This all stems around our host finding " Trespass " from 1992 on iTunes for $4.99. It is a movie that has Cube as fourth billed behind Bill Paxton, I...

" Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss " always opens with a legal disclaimer taken from " Phantasm: OblIVion " followed by the Angus Scrimm 's laugh of the Tall Man. At this year's Chicago Fan Expo, our host tried to open his panel by requesting that someone give their best tribute to the late Scrimm's trademark "Boy!" The audience gave the panel...

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) , Darkman , The Rundown , and Sons of Steel (1989) . Aside from action and outrageous spectacle, what do these films have in common? CatBusRuss is tempted to do some research to determine if he has ever had a guest for a Labor Day Weekend episode of " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast ", but why dwell on the past? Let's experience some flicks that are new to him,...

Kodiak Thompson returns to offer up his insight about another horror comedy, Travis Betz's "Lo" from 2009. This romantic tale is all charm with a sense of humor that is akin to "John Dies at the End". It is like "Evil Dead" except the demons are more concerned with spouting and mocking philosophies instead of swallowing souls.

2024 may have been CatBusRuss 's most productive Fan Expo Chicago , but it came at a cost. He had a great time learning how to host a panel when he presented " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss " live. Too bad the obsolete Fender PA system failed to record it. Or, the blame may fall upon the flash drive he bought from a dodgy phone repair kiosk at the Fashion Outlets of C...

The first day on any Chicago Comic Con is dedicated to getting your bearings to determine where and when you need to be. This has always been a bit rough on CatBusRuss . He knew that he had to be 1 hour and 40 minutes early for the Mark Hamill panel (and find a way to seamlessly insert a review for " Loaded Weapon 1 " into this episode), but what does he need to know to host a panel at t...

2016's "Deadpool" qualified for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss", so it is only fitting that the biggest movie of the 2024's summer should be addressed. Andrew "CouchmanBakes" Tiede was the guest whom CatBusRuss discussed the first film of the trilogy with. When our host was told by his frequent guest that he was going to skip a trivia night to...

Ti West has shown with his the "X" Duology from 2022 that he can be an excellent and innovative horror filmmaker. He created an insane pair of gory masterpieces with " X ", an ode to the birth of slasher movies, and "Pearl", a fun bastardization of the burgeoning dance and fantasy worlds that sound and color provided us with. But, modern cinema works upon the "ru...

After “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s” failure to succeed financially at the box office, CatBusRuss wonders “Why did it get made?” ThePoeticCritc states that it is IP and is happy that the funds were not put towards a super hero movie. Amy Nicholson from the “Unspooled” surprised Paul Scheer with how George Miller’s previous installment in his series lost $40 million for Warner Bros. The two still admi...

The king of action movies that run between 70-100 minutes is Sylvester Stallone . If the feature was focused on action over drama in the 80s, they were brief affairs. Some were good, some were bad, but they all benefit from their sleek runtimes. CatBusRuss has tackled four* of Sly's features before, but did not have any representation from the current decade. So, he decided to bring back his r...

Snoogans! CatBusRuss and Andrew "Couch Man Bakes" Tiede have been meaning to cover Kevin Smith 's filmography for some time, but did not know quite how to tackle it. Mrs. Tiede may have had some influence on the proceedings because we are only focusing on one film from the Jersey's auteur instead of taking her man away for hours to cover it all. The show's guest thought it wa...

Gregory Carl  returns to  NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast  to critique the movie that established the equation of  R utger Hauer + Action Gimmick = Low Brow Gold . 1989's " Blind Fury " was an early 90s' basic cable Cubs/Braves rain delay stand by. A blind sword-swinging Hauer vs. Randle "Tex" Cobb & Sho Kosugi screams entertainment. Why would you want to see the C...

CatBusRuss found Ti West 's " X " to be a genius work of horror and satire, so of course he is pumped for the trilogy's finale, " MaXXXine ", which comes out this Fourth of July Weekend (2024). But, if he does not watch the middle feature of the series, is he showing West the proper respect he deserves? We cannot have that, so our host finally got to this iTunes purchas...

ThePoeticCritic  sparingly drops F-Bombs, and because she and her little brother  CatBusRuss  were less than two weeks removed from their Disney World vacation, it made sense to hold off on some lengthier recordings to see how Disney will rule the world in 2022. There is of course some Goldblum talk, but the Mouse dominates the show with his rides and movies. Our host also takes on Katie Holmes at...

We return to the toughest part of podcast production for Ally Higgins. What movies could she provide " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast " that have titles which start with some of the least useful letters in "Scrabble", X, Y, and Z? CatBusRuss had to go to TCM to provide us with a feature to represent the 24th letter of the English alphabet with " The X from Outer Space &quot...

CatBusRuss and Collateral Cinema's Beau Maddox have been interacting with each other since our host joined Bluesky . Over the past week, they finally have found a feature that the two felt good about collaborating on. " Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss " has covered Paul WS Anderson 's " Mortal Kombat " before, but that was to pay tribute to French action s...

" Frankenstein (2015) ", " The New Mutants ", " Johnny Handsome ", " The Order (2001) ", and " The Colony (2013) ". These are under appreciated morsels found in the troughs that are used video stores. " Twilight " is the evening's third shot of Jeppson's Malort . When you go to a second hand movie/video game store, you have to be...

And this is why ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is the top trivia team in Downstate Illinois. James Slunder comes to the rescue to make sure CatBusRuss does the month of Ani-May right. The team's self-proclaimed anime expert suggested our host watch the prequel to the "Jujutsu Kaisen" television series, the 2021 motion picture "Jujutsu Kaisen 0" . The result of this suggestion is a clash betwee...

Ninety For Chill's  Guide to Shudder,  "The Mudshow's" Gregory Gathmann  needed five beers and someone to chat about Phil Tippett's magnum opus "Mad God", so he came to CatBusRuss . The two were impressed with this dialogue-free, stop-motion, animated feature that took 30 years to make, but what does it mean? Is it good cinema or merely superb visual art? These two...

CatBusRuss thought about calling the episode “Celebrating Roger Corman-I-May”, but then ThePoeticCritic corrected him by explaining he had left his studio, New World Pictures, by the time they first translated “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”. But if Roger Corman was not the producing legend who founded that distributor and AIP, would we even have anime in the States? Those cheap Streamline Pi...