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

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 ...

What's Scarrier: Woody, Lame Horror, or Cheap Horror?

CatBusRuss returns to the cheap DVD bin that Ally of Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy provided him. This portion of the A to Zed journey takes us on a scary tour. Scary to some with the Steve Martin's Woody Allen inspired "L.A. Story" and Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris". Scary to the rest for featuring Lucio Fulci's "The New York Ripp...

CatBusRuss was presumptuous when it came to his knowledge about William H. Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid. Our host knew that he was an outlaw with a legendary reputation as a gunslinger until the law caught up with and dispatched him at the age of 21. Thanks to The Cinema Snob, this podcaster also knew he defeated Dracula. His limited knowledge led him to believe that this icon of the Old West did not live a long enough life to get ...

There are still a lot of podcasts from the original "Ninety For Chill Dot Com: The Podcast" from 2022 that CatBusRuss needs to post on this feed, but with Gregory Carl pulling his weight as a promoter for "I Dig Crazy Flicks", reissuing an episode that he received feedback about seems to make sense.

The foul-mouth guest from last weeks "Companion" episode exemplifies what MTV's most recognizable characters of the nineties may have b...

CatBusRuss's favorite Michael Crichton film was 1973's "Westworld". He is also more of a Jonathan Nolan fan than his older brother. Gregory Carl is quite the well-read, sci-fi-loving truck stop employee in Central Illinois. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is a tale he is fascinated by. Thus, "Companion" is a film the two should have quite an interesting conversation about.

And for this po...

Jeff Goldblum + Geena Davis + Jim Carrey = A great way to beat the monotony of shallow, capitalistic existence. CatBusRuss was his standard dower self going into the weekend while ThePoeticCritic was sour about the lack of cool guests going into the Chicago Con season. Needing summer to start now, CatBusRuss turned to an 80's camp classic he just never got around to, "Earth Girls Are Easy". TPC just happens to offer s...

CatBusRuss ponders if the Indiana Comic Convention appreciates that he has been promoting the fun of the 2025 event for nearly two months after it had concluded. The odds are looking good that he will be invited to sister con, ATL Comic Convention, near the end of July, so "I Dig Crazy Flicks" panel coverage does not seem to be hurting their opinion of him.

This podcast covers the last panel he "moderated". The p...

CatBusRuss had to do a lot of work to make sure it was still prom season. With horror features from the old Podbean feed, he prefers to save them for October, but with the day that will be the most like teen-comedies being near, it felt right to take the piss out of the event(s) he never attended with zombie comedy "Dance of the Dead" from 2008. He is joined by Mitchell Whitt of the now defunct "Morbidly Macabre Podc...

It is about 3:45 am on Stacia Hardin's Birthday. She happens to share that day with one of the most important days in the whole of nerdom, May the Fourth Be with You. The last time CatBusRuss saw her, she was playing nurse as his right wrist had just been surgically repaired, feeding him chocolate pie and giving him a comfort plush Ewok. Damn she was a truly a great person to let our host know that today was the day to release ...

The "Young Frankenstein" panel at Indiana Comic Con was another, "Let's see who volunteers," experience for CatBusRuss. Fortunately, he could not have asked for a better co-panelist than the Disney Imagineers' official magician/mentalist, Paul Draper. Would either of them claim to be experts about Mel Brook's film? No. But a pro-wrestler and Vegas entertainer surely would provide the audience an amus...

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 ...