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I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: Ninety For Chill - The Podcast with CatBusRuss

I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: Ninety For Chill - The Podcast with CatBusRuss

By: Cat Bus Russ
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 We do not always have the time for a two-hour movie. No one ever wants to sit down and watch a one-hour TV drama knowing that they might not be able to stick around for an entire second episode. With this said, 90-minutes (no more than 100) is the ideal runtime. This concise time has given us some of the most rewatchable movies that may not win any Academy Awards, but are properly fun-sized for the audience. That is what Ninety For Chill is all about, the fun-sized sweets be it experimental terror, outlandish horror, over-the-top action, or the most radical comedies and dramas.Cat Bus Russ Art
Episodes
  • The 5:40 A24 Elevated Horror Marathon in Alphabetical Order (Death of a Unicorn, Heretic, Men, Midsommar)

    The 5:40 A24 Elevated Horror Marathon in Alphabetical Order (Death of a Unicorn, Heretic, Men, Midsommar)
    Sep 9 2025
    For GalaxyCon Des Moines, CatBusRuss and the Dread Pirate Syzer from Skies of Fortune are going to be guests on each others panels. Our podcast host thinks that maybe DPS got the easier assignment since he will just have to argue that the best movies are over 100 minutes in length at the "I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: Ninety For Chill - The Panel" (2 pm, Saturday, September 13). Russ, on the other hand, needs to quickly become an expert in A24 movies for the Dread Pirate's "A24: HORROR GOES TO THE ARTHOUSE" (8 pm, Saturday, September 13). Thus, this episode of "I Dig Crazy Flicks" (only one feature fits the ideal runtime between 70 and 100 minutes) focuses on his four-movie, preparation binge.After receiving a list of movies from the panel host, CatBus was relieved that he had covered many of these films on this podcast ("Saint Maud", "X", "Pearl", "MaXXXine", "We're All Going to the World's Fair"). He also saw "The Witch" when it arrived at RedBox and you know he has seen every Kevin Smith movie, so "Tusk" did not need to be re-queued.The films that he picked for this binge all had something to entice him except for one. Ari Aster maybe the name best associated with elevated horror, but CatBusRuss was always suspicious of this. When it comes to elevated, Russ thought it meant the runtime in Aster's case. Therefore, he chose to watch "Midsommar", the one with the middle range of his features (148 minutes).As for the three enticing flicks, the cast of "Death of a Unicorn" is stacked. CatBusRuss has yet to see a bad Alex Garland movie, so "Men" felt like a wise choice. (We may speak about "Ex Machina" at the panel.) Who does not like Hugh Grant's other forays into horror (like "The Lair of the White Worm")? "Heretic" (directed by the Iowan duo of Scott Beck & Bryan Woods) was his final movie choice.CatBusRuss will come into the capital of Iowa with 11 movies from the studio seared into his brain. That is nearly one per year of A24's existence. Will that be enough to gain the rank of expert?As for his two panels at GalaxyCon, he will be providing punch and pie to as many audience members as possible. His first panel will be "1985 TRIPLE THREAT MATCH: STALLONE V. SCHWARZENEGGER V. CANNON GROUP" (Friday, September 12, 7 pm). Will we actually declare a winner or will this be another draw like ATL Comic Convention?
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    39 mins
  • ATL Comic Convention: Knives in My Eyes - 20 Years of 'Brick' with Tim Avers

    ATL Comic Convention: Knives in My Eyes - 20 Years of 'Brick' with Tim Avers
    Sep 3 2025

    CatBusRuss was able to participate in a lot of panels at ATL Comic Convention for movies that he loves, but one of those panels was for a feature not enough people have seen. He was honored to get to chat with the co-creator of the comic "Blood Orange", Tim Avers about Rian Johnson's 2005 debut feature, "Brick". Hopefully, the two were able to convince those who were early for the anime voice actor panel that followed them that they were missing out on a classic.

    There was no audience to start, but since the two had a movie that they both adore, who needed them. Johnson sold this story as "A Detective Story", but if you were combing the aisles of Blockbuster in 2005, was Joseph Gordon-Levitt name enough to get you to rent this flick? CatBus really thinks that the ad campaign for this Sundance darling should have really pushed that this is film noir for high schoolers. Both panelist agree that this is a feature that soon-to-be freshmen should watch to better understand the drama of high school.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • ATL Comic Convention: 20 Years of Revenge of the Sith (with Bryan Young, Holly Frey and Maggie Lovitt)

    ATL Comic Convention: 20 Years of Revenge of the Sith (with Bryan Young, Holly Frey and Maggie Lovitt)
    Aug 27 2025

    At ATL Comic Convention, CatBusRuss attempted to hold his own with "Star Wars" experts by being a panelist on "20 Years of Revenge of the Sith". He seemed to have held his own when discussing "The Last Jedi", but this third prequel of the Skywalker Saga may have held a more personal place in the hearts of his fellow panelists.

    CatBus was joined by the hosts of the "Full of Sith" podcast, Bryan Young (writer for StarWars.com) and Holly Frey (an executive producer for the iHeartRadio podcast network), and Maggie Lovitt (deputy editor at Collider). After their resumes, Russ acknowledged that he may have only been on the panel for the hot takes. Since he is a pro-35mm film fan and his topical comparisons to current events in the 2nd Trump administration were shutdown, perhaps he served his role.

    He felt like he was up against the cult of Lucas, but he could not help but admire the passion for the sixth best "Star Wars" feature (per Screen Drafts). Is the CatBus just another jaded, childless Gen Xer?
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    59 mins
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