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I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss

I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss

By: Cat Bus Russ
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I Dig Crazy Flicks is the home of "Ninety For Chill". 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 end up sticking around for a second (or a third...even a fourth) episode. With this said, 70 to 100 minutes is the ideal runtime. This concise timeframe has given us some of the most rewatchable movies that may not win any Oscars, but are properly fun-sized for the audience. Fun-sized sweets that may be experimental terror, outlandish horror, over-the-top action, or the most radical comedies and dramas.Cat Bus Russ Art
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  • C2E2 2026: Super Mario Body Horror with Geena Davis & "Aliens: Resurgence"

    C2E2 2026: Super Mario Body Horror with Geena Davis & "Aliens: Resurgence"
    Apr 1 2026
    CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic survived another Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. Perhaps this was achieved by effectively staying out of each other's hair. Maybe it was getting the convention's celebrity sound bite from Geena Davis on DAY ONE. After that, could he really be let down?Well, the White Castle on Cermak and Wabash tried to put a damper on that, but when you have your big sis giving you the time to chat about their convention experiences, the Stevens siblings are unstoppable.ThePoeticCritic seemed to be up in Chicago to focus on making sure her boyfriend had a good time. She did not check out any celebrity panels on day one, but day two she checked out Christopher Eccleston. At the same time, CatBus was checking out Elizabeth Olsen's panel. He had seen the Ninth Doctor at Chicago Tardis while this would be a first with an Olsen sibling. She is in the MCU, so did we get any "Doomsday" spoilers? Lets just say, there were no fan questions.The other celebrity panel he checked out was Martin Sheen & Dule Hill's "West Wing" Reunion. It was fun to hear about Martin passing on his wisdom and his Lawrence Fishburne handshake to the younger actor, and he made sure the audience was with The No Kings protests in spirit. Russ thinks that was his way of apologizing for perhaps inspiring the current orange twat-in-chief with his performance in the "Dead Zone".If there was a decision that Russ may have regretted, it was skipping the Charlie Cox & Krysten Ritter panel to check out Trisrex Studio's showing of their fan film, "Aliens: Resurgence - For the Hive". Russ's fear was, as a critic, he would have probably gotten a better narrative from the cast of "Daredevil: Born Again", but that would deny him the chance to see pure, unadulterated passion that an aspiring fan could put out in 40 minutes.The only panel on Day Two that the siblings attended together was for Svengoolie and the Sven Squad. It was fun honoring the finest horror TV hosts, but Russ may have had more fun at the educational panel hosted by "Femmes Reading Filth" about what is needed for excellent, erotic fan fiction.As for Day Three, the highlight for Russ was handing out the "I (Cannon Group) Crazy Flicks" buttons to the Channel Awesome team. Hopefully, telling them about all the previous media he has purchased from the guys over the years would provide forgiveness for not granting them his patronage. (They should have brought more stickers.)ThePoeticCritic did let her younger brother know he may have missed out on the "Jurassic Park" reunion with BD Wong, Wayne Knight, and the grown up grandchildren. Russ told her if he could not pick Wong's brain about "Men of War", he did not miss much.If there was any problem that truly came to bug our host, it was that watching that short film meant his Letterboxd resolution to 15 documented films was broken. But, since its broken, he decided to post a review for 2023's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie". Did this pump him up for the sequel coming out today, or does he continue to stand by 1993's "Super Mario Bros."?If you need to pick a winner, try a flavor from Doich! Snacking Dough. It is cookie dough with more protein, less sugar, and none of the eight major allergens. Our host is not a cookie fan, but this stuff taste great and leaves you feeling full quickly. Follow the link below to save 20% on your order and give the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough a try.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/RUSS76280
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • C2E2 2026: Day 1 - Geena Davis, Movie Arguments, and "Blood for Irina"

    C2E2 2026: Day 1 - Geena Davis, Movie Arguments, and "Blood for Irina"
    Mar 28 2026
    Thanks to ⁠ThePoeticCritic⁠'s beau, CatBusRuss managed to actually get a pass to all three days of C2E2 2026, so he got to plan on how to approach the convention and get the right amount of sleep. There were not many celebrity panels that he was interested in for the first day, but Geena Davis made the struggle to find the new main stage worth it. Our host is so on the ball that he even got to get a question answered from her.For the sound bite, the con may have been made for him. But I Dig Crazy Flicks is recognized as a business, so networking should be the focus of this excursion. Thankfully, Facebook actually let a post from Chicago Podcasters Unite! to show up in his feed. Russ hopes he has made some new digital radio friends. When one of them is up for chatting about "Six String Samurai", a lot of promise for future guests is what he left with.It also lead him to check out a fun educational panel from Lit-X. "The Learning Dead: What Zombie Stories Teach Us About Education" was the best panel the group has demonstrated since our host had been attending them. Were we celebrating the idea of an apocalypse? Per chance. We all agree that it is better to be ready for that than a Lake Michigan Tsunami.Speaking of disasters, that may be what the rest of the panels led to, but in a fun way. Russ's recent sobriety allowed convention goers to leave unharmed after some of their opinions at Channel Awesome's "Movies Everyone Disagree on with You" panel. As for "Hear Me Out: Smash or Pass", CatBus cannot help but feel like an outcast for not wanting to shag Tony the Tiger while being McCurious about the Grimace.This weirdness seems to be an appropriate place to post his review for Chris Alexander's "Blood for Irina". Russ purchased this film from the editor of "Delirium Magazine" back at last year's Indiana Comic Convention. He meant to post this movie, that is better than its IMDb rating, back in Octorber, but it definitely did not deserve the attention over "Sinners".What also deserves attention is Doich! Snacking Dough. It is cookie dough with more protein, less sugar, and none of the eight major allergens. Our host is not a cookie fan, but this stuff taste great and leaves you feeling full quickly. Follow the link below to save 20% on your order and give the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough a try.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/RUSS76280
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    57 mins
  • UI-Con 2026: Ninety For Chill in (Aeon) FLUX with Andrew Tiede

    UI-Con 2026: Ninety For Chill in (Aeon) FLUX with Andrew Tiede
    Mar 25 2026

    CatBusRuss and Andrew "Couchman Bakes" Tiede, knew that UI-Con was primarily an anime convention once they walked into the Illinois Conference Center at the iHotel, but their first of three panels that Friday demonstrated that the crowd may not have that much love for flesh-and-blood, English language-focused conversations. Perhaps they will color their hair or at least get some kawaii wigs for 2027.

    This was essentially the first empty room for the "Ninety For Chill: The Panel". A situation like this does not really affect an underemployed pro-wrestler and an aspiring comedian. They have both performed in front of smaller crowds. If anything it was educational to the crew from the convention who would walk in and take pity on the two. The staff was provided a demonstration of how to roll with the punches. And it let Andrew practice his crowd work.

    "Ninety For Chill" was what "I Dig Crazy Flicks" evolved from. Russ believes that a movie should be no shorter than 70 minutes and no longer than 100. Andrew is just a few years behind our host age wise, which still places the two closer to 50 than hopeful. So they both grew up squeezing four films on one SLP VHS tape. Despite similar Midwestern upbringings, the Couch Man's past of doing three-hour podcasts based around movie marathons with Russ led him to open up with the thesis, "Perhaps Russ is wrong".

    Andrew brings up history to demonstrate Russ maybe too narrow minded, but can you win with guy whose Mom insists he should have been a lawyer? Nine hours of putting up with the CatBus to discuss "Tombstone", "The Thing", and "From Dusk Till Dawn", he was going to try.

    To get you into the mindset of CatBusRuss, our host has attached a review for an under-appreciated attempt to capitalize on the early aughts trend of bad ass heroins in sci-fi with the Charlize Theron starring adaptation of MTV's "Aeon Flux". He enjoyed it, but is a live-action remake of a cartoon something you want more than 100 minutes of?

    A way that you can be a winner is to give Doich! Snacking Dough a try. It is cookie dough with more protein, less sugar, and none of the eight major allergens. Our host is not a cookie fan, but this stuff taste great and leaves you feeling full quickly. Follow the link below to save 20% on your order and give the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough a try.⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/RUSS76280
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    1 hr and 4 mins
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