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

It is only appropriate that this #RewindWednesday podcast falls on the same week as Ebertfest in Champaign, IL. CatBusRuss was not going to try and manage two events to get time off for in a month, so the least he can do is try to give the "I Dig Crazy Flicks" listener a taste of what the festival is like.

Back in 2022, CatBusRuss was able to attend the Terry Zwigoff and Thora Birch hosted screening of "Ghost World&qu...

CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic definitely had two different experiences at 2025's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. Our host's big sister was allowed to attend all three days while he just got frustrated with ReedPop entering the realm of gouging nerds. But, the two do have different personalities, so perhaps we will discover the common ground that still makes the C2E2 worthwhile.

Russ is more about panels and presenta...

CatBusRuss survived the blood loss, his social inadequacies, and the poor scheduling by ReedPop, and came out with quite a rewarding day at C2E2 2025. The new tattoo that is sure to upset the customers that mock him for wearing a face covering was the priciest investment. Outside of that, only spending a $110 at the con and $140 at New Japan Windy City Riot for collectables makes it seem like he won the day. On top of that, he was ...

CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic are a bout to hit the road once again to make their annual pilgrimage to McCormick Place for the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo b.k.a. C2E2. Thus, there is a lot of preparation needed for this trip, even if our host is getting locked out of the overloaded celebrity line up on Saturday. Despite the frustration, Russ wants to still get in the mood for the show and give the audience a paywall-fre...

CatBusRuss left Indiana Comic Con extremely honored by who he was able to share panels with. They were all inspirational.

In the event of the "Was 1985 the Greatest Year in Movies?" panel, he got to speak with filmmaker and founder of the Gal's Guide Women History Library, Dr. Leah "Riwo" Leach. Our podcast host may come off as a cinematic know-it-all, so it was great that he was partnered up with a feminist ...

With the lead up to CatBusRuss's attendance to Indiana Comic Con being based around the films of 1985, it only seemed appropriate that "I Dig Crazy Flicks" should further tease it on by reviewing all the features that the podcast covered from that year. Well, it will not include "Rocky IV" or "Commando", but those flicks are in the feed.

As long as it was not a sequel, 1985 was an interesting year f...

CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl survived their first two days of meeting in person and sharing a hotel room. If they managed that, surely they were able to give Indiana Comic Con a podcast to remember. The two are pretty sure their discussions about:

The ideal movie running time being between 70 and 100 minutes;

How great it was interacting with the mind behind the Full Moon Features magazine "Delirium" as well as Delirium Films, Chris A...

CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl had a great time in Indianapolis the past weekend for the Indiana Comic Con. In the case of our host, perhaps too much fun. By the end of the two nights, he was too partied out to create any of his traditional bonus episodes recapping his days at the convention.

Fortunately, there were five other panels he was on, and his fellow co-panelists had no issue with him pulling out the Yeti mic and Macbook Air t...

CatBusRuss has a busy weekend when it comes to Indiana Comic Con. He will be hosting a live recording of "I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: Ninety For Chill - The Podcast" with friend of the show Gregory Carl on Sunday, March 16 at 4 pm (EDT), but he will also be a guest on panels about: bad sci-fi movies we love, "Tron", "Young Frankenstein", "The Last Jedi". Those are all cinema that he consider...

CatBusRuss welcomes back comedian Gregory Carl to the podcast. Mr. Carl was intrigued by the recent focus on bonkers movies over the strict 70 to 100-parameters of "Ninety For Chill" and offered to chat about Quentin Tarantino's primary contribution to 2007's "Grindhouse", "Death Proof". The premise of a sadistic stuntman with a killer car may sound crazy, but when you realize it is the same un...

Before we move on from Podbean, CatBusRuss wants to ensure that some of his favorite recordings will remain on the feeds of the major podcast apps (Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon Music). We return to month five of NinetyForChill: The #Podcast with what was first a two-episode conversation with Joe Golwitzer about the sub-100 minute filmography of Adam Sandler. The two cover nearly all of the feature that qualify for the show ("Bill...

The primary audience for horror movies has been told to laugh at itself once Kevin Williamson penned "Scream" in 1996. But as L7 wrote four years prior, "The Masses are Asses". Horror nerds were being treated to this message since the founding of Troma Films, but never so directly as in the Rolfe Kanefsky horror comedy, "There's Nothing Out There".

Nix Eclips from the "Cinema Shitshow" podcast suggested that CatBusRuss give the 1991...

The title of this episode is an extreme bit of hyperbole. Ally Higgins and CatBusRuss have been on great terms since their breakup five years ago. Our host cannot help but try to hit a Valentine's Day nerve. If you can endure some misfires by the stars of "Die Another Day", you have a great four movie marathon.

Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy has provided CatBusRuss with plenty of films and inspiration. This week, ...

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 minute sponsor of B-Fest Traditions, ...

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 focus on. Unless slacking is something ...

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 amusement may have been discovering "Red Dwarf XII...

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 for all, but more importantly, a fun c...

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 approaching attractive arial artists, but he wi...

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 can recall what his role in the pro-wr...