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

CatBusRuss was too worn out to catch the "Josie and the Pussycats" reunion panel with Rachel Leigh Cook & Tara Reid, but he still had a handful of "I Dig Crazy Flicks" buttons to give out, so he made it to day three of GalaxyCon Des Moines. Just in time to catch the Q&A with Brian O'Halloran⁠ the star of "Clerks".

This was an insightful panel where our host was impressed about how active he ...

CatBusRuss may have missed the "Speed Friending" event as he recovered from the stress of making it to day one of GalaxyCon Des Moines (Never mind the stress of his personal dramas.), but he worked his promotional butt off and is damn near out of the con's "I Dig Crazy Flicks" buttons. This is thanks to the help of Jess McCord of the tabletop RPG "Skies of Fortune". The two guested on each others&#...

Barry Bostwick debuts "Making Megaforce", a documentary/love letter about a bomb of his from 1982.

Standout Adult Swim actors MC Chris & Dana Snyder gain a learning experience from their first attempt to record their podcast, "None of This Matters".

Out podcast host learns he may have to keep up with what the kids love after a well conceived panel, "Eternal Love: Vampire Media Renaissance", out draws...

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 quick...

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 tha...

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...

CatBusRuss may still be recovering from Fan Expo Chicago 2025. At 45 years-old, jumping into foam-sword combat for 45 minutes was too much since its been six years since his brief indoor soccer return, but not getting to contribute to the convention still pains him as well. Then again, you get to hear the nicest question John Cena has ever been asked in this episode, so he may have still won the weekend.

Our host could not have much...

Is it a good thing when a comic convention encourages one to sleep in? As long as the best content is available to a rested podcaster (at the price of $40), CatBusRuss shan't complain.

Our host did not watch "Suits", so he may not have been the best audience member for only knowing Rick Hoffman from "Hostel" and "The Condemned", so his primary goal was to capture the "Hooked on a Feeling with the Cast of Guardians of the Galaxy: Kar...

When CatBusRuss is at a comic convention where he is not serving as a panelist, the experience can be about remembering the sweet is never as sweet without the sour. (Anyone want to Zoom about "Vanilla Sky"?) This trip is virtually all inclusive (sans alcohol), so can there really be much to be sour about? Then came the journey of finding a Funko Pop! for an actor who was a last minute scratch from the Fan Expo Chicago li...

It is a #TossBackTuesday for "I Dig Crazy Flicks" as CatBusRuss gets himself in the mindset to just hang out at Fan Expo Chicago by revisiting the first Fan Expo Chicagoland ever hosted.

Russ is a little bit in the dumps since this is the first time that Fan Expo has rejected his panel suggestions, but he looks to have a fun time seeing the likes of Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Orlando Bloom, John Cena, etc. Of cours...

The crew in Lansing, MI, called the panel "Hollywood Squares", but we are not risking any infringement in this podcast episode's title.

For CatBusRuss's friends, this may have been the panel they were most intrigued by when he was invited to the Capital City Comic Con. Fans of the podcast get the show's gimmick, so who can blame them for wanting to be here rather than his pro-90-minute movie TED Talk?

The "I Dig Crazy Flicks" host ha...

CatBusRuss may have finally broken the panel code. The audience was not large (What would you expect being placed in the furthest panel room of the ATL Comic Convention?), but the enthusiasm of director/producer Mario DeAngelis and dark fantasy author with a second-degree black belt Hollis Jo McCollum⁠ made the three flights to and from Atlanta worthwhile for our podcast host.

After the "V for Vendetta" panel on Friday, De...

Either celebrity involvement has finally come to "I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss" or cease and desist letters are in the podcast's future. As they say, any press is good press.

Friday, the podcast professional CatBusRuss was a panelist for just one panel, "Knives in My Eyes: 20 Years of 'Brick'". Saturday, he got to sleep in because the only panel he "needed" to get to was "Young Gu...

CatBusRuss's three star (at best) accommodations are not too far away from the Georgia World Congress Center, so not having a good time at his first ATL Comic Convention would be a difficult task. Our host was able to perhaps make new friends, or at the very least frenemies, as he sat in on four panels and served as a panelist for "Knives in My Eyes: 20 Years of Brick".

The panel dedicated to Rian Johnson's debut f...

After impressing nerds with his win percentage at Jeffrey Stansberry "Real or Fake: Movie Edition" and being the center of the board at "Hollywood Squares" the day prior, CatBusRuss felt great going into "Ninety For Chill: The Panel" at Capital City Comic Con. It was not his biggest audience, but Punch and Pie may have allowed him to have a wise audience to deliver his thesis of "Movies are way to...

With ATL Comic Convention scheduling him for all three days and the need to take four days off to take ThePoeticCritic up to Fan Expo Chicago, CatBusRuss chose to not take the time off to attend the one day at Capital City Comic Con that he was not scheduled for panels. And the hospitality and camaraderie that the nerds of Lansing, MI offered may lead our host to regret that.

No offense to Garrett Wang, but no one would call the lis...

Michael Dubois and CatBusRuss pick up where they left off with their discussion inspired by Mel Brooks's debut feature, "The Producers". The conversation starts with  exploring Zero Mostel's portrayal of Max Bialystock and his pension for seducing pensioners to fund his films. This leads into CatBusRuss's salacious adulthood, satirical takes towards parents, and "Star Wars" fandom. It only seems appr...

When CatBusRuss is posting a #RewindWednesday episode of "I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss", if the conversation was two parts, he prefers to glue it back together as one long podcast. But who would deny this feed having two weeks to celebrate the film that made Mel Brooks the cinema icon that he is today? Especially not even a week removed from his 99th birthday.

This was an interesting conversation with Michael Dubois,...

CatBusRuss is joined by prolific podcaster Noel Thingvall to discuss a Sci-Fi Channel Saturday morning classic, "Zieram". Our host would call it "Alien Isolation for Dummies". Noel would call it "Alien Meets Abbott and Costello". Either alternative title you bestow on the feature debut of tokusatsu master, Keita Amemiya, the two mean them to be complimentary.

For CatBus, he wanted to watch this film 25 ...