I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss

CarBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic have arrived in Rosemont for Chicago’s oldest Comic Con, currently known as Fan Expo. It was a lot of fun going through the show floor, but the celebrities and the panels will not show up until Friday, Aug 11. Still, our host managed to spend $200 and 23 of it went to a cool Nerdlesque Show from Minneapolis’s NerdDom Universe. The frustrating bit was dealing with aut...

CatBusRuss returns to his blogging roots. This episode is dedicated to " Arena " from 1989. Our host wrote a review for this Charles Band produced feature back in 2019, and it caught the attention of one of the premier nerdy minds in the Champaign/Urbana metroplex, Tim Bates of Evil Penguin Games . Tim has had a big influence on his fellow retail geeks, like friend of the show Kodiak Tho...

In this superhero, mega-budget obsessed world, it is easy to understand the regular movie goer's mindset that if something is cheap, it cannot be good. The feature will definitely not be exciting. Excitement is overrated, but a little heart in direction and a good script can make any five-figure budget worthwhile. Too bad exploitation encourages quick products over quality. CatBusRuss 's r...

CatBusRuss goes home to deal with plumbing issues at the folks’ house, but primarily to check out his first Quad Con with ThePoeticCritic . His big sister said, and was right, that this is really just a toy con, but there were some celebrities who had booths. If it was not for The Cinema Snob advertising his appearance, our host may have stayed in Urbana to catch up on “AEW: Fight Forever.” It all...

Sam Marsh is a lot like the aliens who seek political sanctuary in the "Men in Black" franchise. CatBusRuss thinks that is a fair thing to say because this is his first podcast guest who is from the Mastodon social media platform. Most people consider that to be another planet. Our guest is just like a Martian minding his own business and make a living on the Internet (vis-a-vis Earth),...

CatBusRuss has figured a way to kill two birds with one stone. It is now a question of how to get to that stone. Enjoying the physical media release of "Sisu" might be the perfect place to start. Our host felt inspired to throw the planned Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy Trash Feature Revue Triple Feature aside to tackle something that just made it to retailer shelves. This almost ma...

The holiday and returning to the States after the MLB London Series left CatBusRuss without a guest. Fortunately, our host has some classic conversations about two cinematic, American heroes. They are Jurassic Jeff Golblum and the greatest Rollins, Henry Rollins. Two of the best guests to have come on to NinetyForChill: The Podcast have been Kodiak Thompson and ThePoeticCritic . With that said, we...

CatBusRuss finally got to celebrate his 40th birthday with the London trip his dad wanted to go on three years ago. It was centered around Cubs baseball, but that victory over the Cardinals (Series split, but it is England, so let us considerate an aggregate win of 14-8.) only took up so much time. He had to amuse himself on the flight and the one day with no American pastime. Thanks to United Air...

Andrew "@CouchManBakes" Tiede has been one of the most reliable and fun repeat guest to bless "NinetyForChill" with his presence. He has really helped CatBusRuss make great audio content, so it is about time that he got to chat about a feature that he has been pushing for since " Big Trouble in Little China": CouchMan Lo Pan vs. Jorge Shen" . That picture is &quo...

Nothing seems to be working out for CatBusRuss . He is doing a lot better mentally, but that maybe out of spite. The day after he finished producing " Toss Back Tuesday: Jim Carrey Under 100 Minutes ", the podcast scheduling plans were all screwed up. "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" was the big Blu-Ray release for June 6, 2023. Its theatrical run was released the week prior to th...

CatBusRuss is currently an emotional mess. Fortunately, he wants to ensure that all the episodes from the original Podbean feed get moved over to Spotify for Podcasters. In honor of June 6, 2023 [6 -6 - (2 x 3)], it makes sense to rehash a podcast in honor to the star of Joel Schumacher's "The Number 23". ThePoeticCritic returns to the podcast to give a thorough analysis of the sub 1...

CatBusRuss could not have fallen into a more appropriate way to close out the month of May (a.k.a. AniMay [anime + May]). Coinciding with the release of "Fast X", our host watched a couple of features that actually succeed at what the Vin Diesel franchise tries to capture. These are crazy stories that do not get caught up in male soap opera and "Just Kiss Already!" moments. Unl...

" The Truman Show " was a feature that some would say has aged like a fine wine, but there seems to be many who still have a bitter taste in their mouth. What would Hollywood be like if this feature received its roses back in 1998 instead of 2022 at Cannes? Would Jim Carrey have become the post-modern Tom Hanks? Is he American enough to usurp the two-time Oscar winner's greatest titl...

CatBusRuss is pondering how often he should be releasing new episodes of " Ninety For the Chill ". This current season has had a great balance of episodes dedicated to his own personal binges and conversations with great guests. But with so many podcasts having a monthly or biweekly release schedule, is the CatBus working too hard? The episode for next week is in the can, so this week, o...

For Ani-May: NinetyForChill: The #Podcast  goes back to its roots by refreshing some of its first podcast with its associate producer,  Ally Higgins . This acts as a profile for the Etsy seller ( Ally's Accessories Shop ) who has donated nearly $300 in used DVDs of feature ranging from absolute trash to under appreciated features that demand reappraisal. These two conversations explore her tas...

One of the worse things about the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that they insist that you stick around until the credits conclude for what is essentially a tease for the next feature in the franchise. It is far more forgivable in "Turning Red" to just feature the father dancing to some boy band, but it is still not part of the narrative of the feature that you paid to see. So what if you...

It was an inevitability that Nicolas Cage was going to get at least one episode of " Ninety For Chill " dedicated to his works. With the amount that he works, there maybe more to come. As long as he keeps it weird of course. CatBusRuss was doing his best to catch a showing of "Renfield" before it leaves the big screens this week. That feature is not quite the box office success...

This week's episode is proof that you can actually meet genuine people at comic cons. One half of " In Love, with Movies " hosts, Nic , comes on the show to chat about Ruben Fleischer 's only undisputedly good feature " Zombieland ". CatBusRuss and his guest did not take a lot of notes suggesting that it maybe one of the best paced comedies of the current century. Watch...

CatBusRuss is bringing more classic content to his Spotify for Podcasters feed with a couple of conversations with Gregory Carl , an aspiring stand-up comedian and fellow podcaster. Here, the two wrestling fans (let us apologize right now for those tangents) discuss the early major studio work of "Guardians of the Galaxy" auteur James Gunn . Their opinions do differ when it comes to &quo...

This is essentially a follow up to last week's episode " Gold Diggers of 1933 and Nintendo 2023 ". CatBusRuss took time to defend "The Super Mario Bros. Movie", so there was a temptation to see the film that he was attempting to stand up for. But one movie and no guest did not feel right. Also in that episode, our host explained to ThePoeticCritic why the " John Wick &...

CatBusRuss tries to piece together a podcast for the kids of the eighties and the jaded millennials/gen z'rs who hate what the Reagan Era. Space Opera was a genre that dominated the early to mid 1980s as a response to "Star Wars". After "Ghostbusters" showed audiences that spectacle need not take place in outer space, the genre seemingly dropped off. With that said, could S...

Finding a guest for NinetyForChill was going to be especially tough during Easter week. Fortunately, holidays mean family get togethers. Thus, CatBusRuss was able to tempt his sister, ThePoeticCritic, to give him a couple of hours to chat about pre-code musical cinema (primarily "Gold Diggers of 1933") when he returned to Morton to celebrate the savior (be it the Christ or the patriarch of their f...

This bonus episode of NinetyForChill may serve as a personality profile of its host, CatBusRuss . Since 1997 and " The Fifth Element ", he has been a fan and apologist of Milla Jovovich . Her direct-to-video features do not scare him off, so he was intrigued by " Paradise Hills ". Neil Marshall 's " Doomsday " is one of his favorite movies. It would not be fair to...

" NinetyForChill : The #Podcast with @CatBusRuss " is officially reborn. It kind of seems appropriate that we celebrate the festivities with another festival, the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo . The headliners (Chris Evans, Zachary Levi, Tenoch Huerta, etc.) are not usually featured in films that are common to this podcast, but their stories are worthwhile listens that may inspi...

The day was for more productive for @CatBusRuss, but not without its cost. Our host discovers that Cosplay isn’t easy, he shouldn’t try to figure out the ideal cabaret line up, and people blindly love dinosaurs more than shaggable, killer robots.