I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss

J.D. Grieving from the  JDHD Series  graces us with his presence to discuss " Stealing Harvard ". For a 17 year-old J.D., this helped lay the groundwork for his own style of comedy. For a 22 year-old CatBusRuss , I needed something to further bury the memory of "Freddy Got Fingered". Stealing Harvard (2002) was directed by "The Kids in the Hall" alumnus Bruce McCulluc...

For those who listened to the entirety of " 3M Movie Marathon ", CatBusRuss mentioned his attempt to record a podcast with Tim Loss about "MacGruber". It was part of Russ 's efforts to watch and discuss the entire sub 100-minute filmography of Chris Jericho. What is disappointing about this recording not happening is that Tim really impressed our host with their conversatio...

Hopefully everyone has had a great start to 2024. With all the festivities, finding a guest was going to be next to impossible, so CatBusRuss got a week off to relax. Or did he? These festive times means most people have little time, so our host had to make up for this with an action movie binge. This will be the closest to an Illinois Central College hosted B-Fest . that we think you can find. Ru...

Ninety For Chill is closing out 2023 with some cinematic banter from ThePoeticCritic . CatBusRuss and his big sister discuss how the movie landscape has changed, be it offerings for the multiplexes or streaming services. Their primary concern: Where are the movies? Our host is more concerned about where to stream them. With the top electronic retailer deciding to stop selling physical media, CatBu...

To conclude this year's edition of "AllysAccessoriesShop on Etsy 's Trash Feature Revue" , CatBusRuss does his best to pit two actresses against each other. The girl of his offbeat film preadolescence, Winona Ryder , and the woman of his low-brow cinema adulthood, Milla Jovovich . How did " The Fifth Element 's" Leeloo defeat " Beetlejuice 's" Lydia De...

Have American movie goers forgotten the legacy of John Woo ? Why have producers thought that Joel Kinnaman is a movie star? Can action movies be experimental? Is "Die Hard" the only badass Christmas movie? Audiences seemed like they were not ready to ask these questions. Fearing that the feature may not get a chance to become a new holiday classic, CatBusRuss went and checked out "...

Who needs weird, Thanksgiving uncle drama when you can spend your post retail Black Friday vacation discussing the kids' films that traumatized us? Be it eventual trepidations towards animated musicals or live action films that tells Walt Disney's "Bambi" to "hold my beer" when it came to killing forest critters. With that being ThePoeticCritic 's suggestion for a p...

The Thanksgiving season may have become the best weekend to catch a horror feature. Last year, CatBusRuss was blown away by " The Menu ". It was released the weekend before the most popular celebration of colonialism. This past weekend, another product of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's "Grindhouse" became a reality with Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving" . Pe...

After a very successful Spooky Month that carried into Veterans Day, CatBusRuss felt it would be best to return to just reviewing movies this week. It was an opportunity to catch up on Ally's Accessories Shop of Etsy 's Trash Feature Revue . As it turns out, we are in the home stretch when it comes to covering all of the DVD's Russ 's ex-girlfriend bought him to ensure the podcast...

It took longer than expected, but perhaps it is for the best since Veteran's Day is coming up. Sam Marsh is a fan of spectacle, so he returns to the podcast to discuss Christopher Nolan 's war epic from 2017, " Dunkirk ". CatBusRuss is not as high on the auteur as most seem to be, but since this feature is one that Quentin Tarantino deemed to be a rewatchable , our host had to gi...

CatBusRuss wants to remind you that this podcast’s drop day is moving from every Tuesday to every Wednesday. But, he is not a fan of doing two minutes episodes to tell you to tune in next time. So, our host returns to “Ally’s Accesories Shop on Etsy’s” Trash Feather Revue” and watched Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn’s break out film, “Swingers”. It is well regarded critically, but Russ saw the poster...

Andrew "Couchman Bakes" Tiede returns to the podcast to discuss a third feature about THE actor of every kid who was babysat by a VHS tape deck, Kurt Russell . The challenge being, Kurt's movies tend to be too long to be discussed on this show. But never to disappoint the audience, CatBusRuss will allow " John Carpenter's The Thing " to be the primary topic. All the Cou...

It would not be #SpookyMonth for " Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast " if ThePoeticCritic did not make her annual villainy felt. She has never been big for slasher movies, so it is Kaiju season. CatBusRuss explores her opinions on the late '70s " Godzilla " movies and admits to light Letterboxd stalking. He just needed to know why she watched " Billy the Kid Versus Dracul...

CatBusRuss may be too old to be hip. He does not get the allure of Creepy Pasta. For our host, these ideas seem to be lazy attempts for older millennials to appear creative. They are just odd/disturbing images without any lore, a product of the ADHD era. To make up for the lack of depth, fans of the concept make themselves believe in it to hope to will these monsters into the zeitgeist. These effo...

Thanks to Jonathan Romeo , #SpookyMonth for " Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast " is officially in full swing. He suggested that if you want to talk about a feature that instills fear into the hearts of all, regardless of faith, " The Exorcist " is the film to chat about. This is a flick that CatBusRuss needed to see, but at 2 hours 2 minutes, how can this podcast be the place to...

Over the past year, there have been a few movies that CatBusRuss has recorded his thoughts about, but did not have the right episode to place them on. With films that peak his interests starting to roll out, will there be a place for these forgotten segments? " Saw X " was a film that our host would not miss opening weekend for, but from speaking to potential guests for the show, he migh...

September is finally offering CatBusRuss the schlocky cinema that inspired the creation of this podcast. You can have your MCU, give Russ gory action and horror movies. Show him what Tony Stark should have looked like after the third Snap. Time was going to made to get to “Expend4bles”. It is gruesome and fun, but creatively gutless. To remedy this and finish out his Netflix DVD subscription, our...

⁠ "Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast with @CatBusRuss" ⁠ offers the world the ultimate questionable quadruple feature. If it was between 70 and 100 minutes in length and directed by ⁠ Ken Russell ⁠ during the '80s, it is here. ⁠ CatBusRuss ⁠ 's weekend binge features the body horror classic " ⁠ Altered States ⁠ ", Russell's reimaginings of 19th century British literatu...

FanExpo Chicago was lacking plentiful after hour activities, so after night two of the convention, CatBusRuss and his big sister decided to check out Greta Gerwig’s take on Mattel’s toy icon, “Barbie”. This is a fun recording since it it leaves us with a “Siskel & Ebert” feel. The two siblings get to focus on how this fun, educational takedown of the patriarchy left them feeling. If that is not en...

With the Labor Day holiday, CatBusRuss decided not to hassle anyone about recording a podcast with him. But because he went it alone last week, our host decided that classic conversations was what this week needed. When it comes to classic conversations on this podcast, you can usually count on ThePoeticCritic to come through. Until B-Fest 2024 , this episode effectively completes the preservation...

When it comes to talking about John Cena and vampires, it seems our host is alone when it comes to his fascination with the genres. Thus, the show's producer only has about 20 minutes of insight on the topics (recorded) and it is all right here. In this bonus episode, we alternate between the 16-time champ and vamps with  "The Marine" (2006) ,  "Daughter of Darkness" (1990)...

CatBusRuss is doing his best to overcome exhaustion. Fan Expo Chicago calls for exploration means there was no time for relaxation. Our host has worked himself sick, so he felt lucky to get in three movies since returning from Rosemont. And after starting the week with his Netflix DVD rental, " Another Earth ", getting up the energy to watch 1979's " The Lion, the Witch, & t...

CatBusRuss has made it back to Champaign/Urbana from taking his big sister, ThePoeticCritic , up to Chicago Fan Expo 2023 . There was plenty of fun to be had, but there is a lot of stress that comes with planning to have the maximum amount of enjoyment. The Fan Expo takeover of Wizard World (formerly Chicago Comic Con) has led to more blatant efforts to take every possible penny from the conventio...

CatBusRuss was able to leave Fan Expo with a sense of accomplishment, but it came having to deal with the shortcomings of the operation…and Rosemont. All of the panels were inspirational. And after dealing with staff being told to hunt down people using their phones, it was refreshing to know Danny Trejo could care less about limitations. At least we know it should be about everyone having fun awa...

The celebrities have arrived, so it was a day full of panels in Rosemont. All of them were entertaining be it their voices (Tara Strong), personality (Christopher Lloyd), or trumpet and history doctrine (Peter Weller). There was a lot of fun to be had, but the current entertainment strikes threaten to make the show dull. And a lack of after-hour events on a Friday is a bit frustrating.