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With Twin Cities Con this weekend, CatBusRuss is promising a lot of content for "Ninety For Chill" before next Wednesday. In the meantime, our host decided to make sure that all of the Stuart Gordon directed features that he has come across makes his current podcast feed.
"Robot Jox", "Castle Freak", and "Dagon" are all low-budget bangers. And after Russ brings up the 2013 no-budget stinker "Eternal Damn Nation", you will have a greater appreciation of the man who did the most to honor H.P. Lovecraft's horrors (and, to a lesser extent, Tommy Wiseau).
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It was not a very scary "spooky month" for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast", but CatBusRuss can deliver on finding guests who can provide monsters to enjoy. Brandy "HappyBeebsMeowMeow" Stonum returns to the podcast to discuss her favorite movie of all time, "Labyrinth" from Jim Henson.
Brandy remembers this film fondly. She was only two when the film came out in 1986, but it had such an impact on her family that her little brother was named Jareth, the character portrayed by the father of modern alternative rock, David Bowie. As for the lasting impact on Russ and his older sister, ThePoeticCritic, this was the two's first real exposure to this musical god, but more importantly, The Muppets (more accurately, Jim Henson's Creature Shop) as a source of drama. It also may have prepped them for Mom's love of anything English as Terry Jones's script left them in a good place to appreciate "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
And of course, as many suggest, all parties involved with this episode consider the children's feature to be a catalyst of sexual awakening. Those wardrobe choices will be discussed.
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CatBusRuss will be honest. Between Kaiju and Hammer Dracula, this spooky season has not been to scary on "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast". With it being a Rewind Wednesday, our host decided that his and Kodiak Thompson's conversation about Paul W.S. Anderson's greatest feature, "Event Horizon" might set things straight.
And then Russ considered that a new "Venom" feature is being released this week. He felt it was only appropriate to get his listeners prepared for it by recapping the seemingly missable, "Venom: Let There Be Carnage". He thought it was a fun flick, but when the alien-symbiote got a hold of glow sticks, the thoughts of Joel Schumacher's ghost taking the reigns of the franchise were scarier that anything the Anderson's space hell could offer.
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The King of Monsters demands his spot in spooky month. ThePoeticCritic returns to Ninety For Chill to discuss what is truly scary about kaiju. International politics and Western adaptations.
CatBusRuss gets to learn the history of "The Return of Godzilla", a legacy sequel/reboot of the Toho franchise. The two discuss whether or not the giant monsters are only scary to kids, the under appreciated influence the big guy had on America filmmaking, the necessity of practical effects, and where the hell the money that Yankee producers are throwing at movies is going.
"Godzilla Minus One" only cost $15 million to make and featured Oscar-winning special effects. Why did "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" cost 10 times that? We suppose the "X" does represent multiplication (Thanks Jessica Ritchey.).
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Based on some stalking of ThePoeticCritics's Letterboxd profile, CatBusRuss was able to get on the same page for an impromptu podcast recording in October 2021. What we get is a discussion of which "Dracula" was the better between Hammer's Christopher Lee and the director or "Short Circuits" Frank Langella. They have a conversation of all things Dracula before Francis Ford Coppola gave us the dimmest Jonathan Harker.
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CatBusRuss was unable to secure a guest this week, but thankfully has some leads on some experts of spookiness. This left our host relying on his streaming services to warrant tax write offs for I DiG CRAZY FLiCKS. Here he discovered that after the "Twilight Saga", studios are making some wild choices when it comes to vampires on the big screen (43 inches and up).
Netflix had the official dawning of Universal's Dark Universe with "Dracula Untold". Russ's suspicions are soon met when it comes to PG-13 vampires as Luke Evans portrays Bram Stoker's titular character. This feature looks like it wants to show, "What if Sauron from Peter Jackson's Trilogy was on our side?" Laughingly, it is lots of bodies flying without viscera or proper lighting.
Paramount+ was only promoting two vampire movies, and the CatBus has already spoke of "From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money's" excellence. So he watched the weirdly titled "V for Vengeance". To the producers' credit, in the age of mock busters, the nomenclature will bring eyes to it. Hopefully, those pupils will not be too miffed about getting the lightweight "D.E.B.S." of vampiric action instead of a dystopian England with Guy Faux masks.
This double feature is for those who are into schlock since Stephenie Meyer took more time establishing vampiric lore. Too bad the only thing these creatives took from her franchise is that the sun is no longer a curse. It is a major flaw because darkness, can hide poor fight choreography and only implies the gore your effects cannot deliver.
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NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast is starting Michael Dubois's proposed Gene Wilder trilogy by discussing his favorite movie of all time, "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". At least, it was his favorite coming into these recordings. Can two ultra-left anti-capitalists watch a feature about the Howard Hughes of chocolatiers and leave with the same respect that they had for this feature as children?
After CatBusRuss reviews John Leguizamo's "Empire" our host and Michael Dubois resume their conversation about one of the most impactful children features in their lives, "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". The two discuss the charms of Gene Wilder that Johnny Depp could only wish for, and how they may allow a real megalomaniacal chocolatier to get away with the crimes against humanity that Roald Dahl's most famous character commits.
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It is only appropriate that for episode 187, the podcast will be about films from a gangster rap founding father, Ice Cube. He is a man so hard, that you never see him get killed on screen. CatBusRuss verified this on the Cinemorgue Wiki.
This all stems around our host finding "Trespass" from 1992 on iTunes for $4.99. It is a movie that has Cube as fourth billed behind Bill Paxton, Ice Tea, and William Sadler. Not a bad place to be when the film is written by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale and directed by the man who gave us "Streets of Fire" & "48 Hours", Walter Hill.
But O'Shea Jackson can lead a film, or at least share top billing with The Chick from "Species", Natasha Henstridge. With The Horror Master, John Carpenter, at the helm, surely you will be entertained by "Ghosts of Mars". If that is not enough this to sell this feature to you, "The Beekeeper" Jason Statham further stacks the cast.
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"Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss" always opens with a legal disclaimer taken from "Phantasm: OblIVion" followed by the Angus Scrimm's laugh of the Tall Man. At this year's Chicago Fan Expo, our host tried to open his panel by requesting that someone give their best tribute to the late Scrimm's trademark "Boy!" The audience gave the panel a "what the hell is that?" look. So Russ, needs to make sure the internet knows the importance of Don Coscarelli.
When you need to mix up the themes and tones of your movies for spooky month, Don Coscarelli is a great auteur to turn to. CatBusRuss's introduction to this director was the nightmare fuel that is the "Phantasm". Kodiak Thompson's comes from the comedic craziness that is "John Dies at the End". Who can resist Bruce Campbell as an elderly Elvis Presley in "Bubba Ho-Tep"? If horror is not your bag, Doscarelli will still draw you in with one of his films.
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Darkman, The Rundown, and Sons of Steel (1989). Aside from action and outrageous spectacle, what do these films have in common?
CatBusRuss is tempted to do some research to determine if he has ever had a guest for a Labor Day Weekend episode of "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast", but why dwell on the past? Let's experience some flicks that are new to him, and help warrant writing them off when I Dig Crazy Flicks, LLC. files their taxes.
Our host believes that he came up with a fun four film marathon based on films from the subscription services that he pays for (Netflix & Paramount+), his recent iTunes purchases, and a film that he was tempted to purchase during Vinegar Syndrome's Labor Day Sale, but thanks to JustWatch, found that it was free on Tubi. We are sure that we will address the Blu-Rays that he did buy on a later episode.
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Kodiak Thompson returns to offer up his insight about another horror comedy, Travis Betz's "Lo" from 2009. This romantic tale is all charm with a sense of humor that is akin to "John Dies at the End". It is like "Evil Dead" except the demons are more concerned with spouting and mocking philosophies instead of swallowing souls.
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2024 may have been CatBusRuss's most productive Fan Expo Chicago, but it came at a cost. He had a great time learning how to host a panel when he presented "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss" live. Too bad the obsolete Fender PA system failed to record it. Or, the blame may fall upon the flash drive he bought from a dodgy phone repair kiosk at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago. But it was all about education, so sweating out a six-hour hangover after Fan Expo's Cosmic Celebration was a battle worth fighting.
Should Russ have drank half-a-fifth of Deep Eddy's Cranberry Vodka? He thinks he earned it after successfully debuting his first masked cosplay, Cubpool. This allowed him to impress his fellow nerds with photo ops and, with the mask being so confining, left him quite blind. Which means, it is difficult to shop when you cannot see. Money was saved. The owner of I Dig Crazy Flicks, LLC. cannot write off every toy he wants to buy.
The Deadpool mask's eye holes were so small, it felt like his eyes would soon be dried out. Thankfully for CatBus, the stars were out for day two of the convention. Sitting in the darkened main hall to hear tales from Alan Tudyk, the voice actors of "Hazbin Hotel", and the shared casts of the first two "Terminator" films allowed him to remove the hood and properly hydrate.
It was a fun three-days, but it did leave Russ feeling like he had been dropped seven feet by Sid Vicious. This means it felt appropriate to splice in his review of the 2020, no-budget, Cleveland-based, indie-wrestling feature, "Powerbomb" into this podcast episode.
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The first day on any Chicago Comic Con is dedicated to getting your bearings to determine where and when you need to be. This has always been a bit rough on CatBusRuss. He knew that he had to be 1 hour and 40 minutes early for the Mark Hamill panel (and find a way to seamlessly insert a review for "Loaded Weapon 1" into this episode), but what does he need to know to host a panel at the Creators' Stage (Sunday, August 18, 2 pm) and sell "I Dig Crazy Flicks" buttons and stickers?
Checking out a podcast recording about cosplay and an underrated gems panel with no microphones for fan input is leaving him worried, but perhaps CatBus can just get money by feigning naivety. It works for some of those in the Artist Alley.
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2016's "Deadpool" qualified for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss", so it is only fitting that the biggest movie of the 2024's summer should be addressed. Andrew "CouchmanBakes" Tiede was the guest whom CatBusRuss discussed the first film of the trilogy with. When our host was told by his frequent guest that he was going to skip a trivia night to see the third entry in the franchise, Russ knew he better be prepared to discuss that feature for the sake of content.
Couchman and CatBus had a ball discussing "Deadpool & Wolverine", but it is clear that the two appreciate the latest addition to the franchise in different ways. Neither of the talking heads claim this to be the best picture of the franchise, so it is a discussion of whether "Deadpool 2" or the threequel is superior. CatBusRuss maybe in the minority after a listening to the "In Love with Movies" podcast. "Deadpool & Wolverine" is undeniably great spectacle that should be seen, but CatBus is a plot driven guy.
"Dunkirk" is a theatrical spectacle. Does two comic book guys punching and cutting each other demand the price of admission? Couchman thinks that after $50 in soda cups, it is.
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Ti West has shown with his the "X" Duology from 2022 that he can be an excellent and innovative horror filmmaker. He created an insane pair of gory masterpieces with "X", an ode to the birth of slasher movies, and "Pearl", a fun bastardization of the burgeoning dance and fantasy worlds that sound and color provided us with. But, modern cinema works upon the "rule of threes". All features should be a part of a trilogy. Since audiences tend to only remember the final act, his third collaboration with Mia Goth, "MaXXXine", is placed in a tough spot.
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After “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s” failure to succeed financially at the box office, CatBusRuss wonders “Why did it get made?” ThePoeticCritc states that it is IP and is happy that the funds were not put towards a super hero movie. Amy Nicholson from the “Unspooled” surprised Paul Scheer with how George Miller’s previous installment in his series lost $40 million for Warner Bros. The two still admired Miller’s 2015 film (as did the Academy and our host) and emphasized how great an artist he is. BUT, how can anyone justify spending nine figures on something that DaVinci only needed a literal canvas and paint for? ThePoeticCritic tries to explain the math.
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The king of action movies that run between 70-100 minutes is Sylvester Stallone. If the feature was focused on action over drama in the 80s, they were brief affairs. Some were good, some were bad, but they all benefit from their sleek runtimes.
CatBusRuss has tackled four* of Sly's features before, but did not have any representation from the current decade. So, he decided to bring back his reviews of "beloved" features like "Nighthawks", "Cobra", "Over the Top" and "Judge Dredd", and sandwich them between a two-picture binge. Our host takes 2022's superhero feature "Samaritan" and the 2021 re-edit of his favorite "Rocky" feature, "Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut".
Russ goes through the entire range of emotions though out this episode. He pities the fans of Stallone's attempts to connect with kids, tears up for the relatable heroes, loves all of the outrageous moments, and experiences PTSD with the director's latest decisions. This podcast may be the emotional roller coaster that the icon has tried to deliver since the original "Rocky".
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CatBusRuss and Andrew "Couch Man Bakes" Tiede have been meaning to cover Kevin Smith's filmography for some time, but did not know quite how to tackle it. Mrs. Tiede may have had some influence on the proceedings because we are only focusing on one film from the Jersey's auteur instead of taking her man away for hours to cover it all. The show's guest thought it was best to tackle what seems to be every millennials first step into the View Askewniverse, 1995's "Mallrats".
Our host, being able to see R-rated movies in theaters sooner, introduction to the Red Bank native's world was "Dogma", but good luck finding that feature streaming. Russ may consider selling his Blu-Ray for $150...may consider.
"Mallrats" is a movie that was 30 years ahead of its time. Perhaps it is because of Smith's insistence on writing the same type of movie during the last three decades. Only nerds and outcast talked about superhero coitus in the 90s. With geek now being chic, everyone talks like his characters and can relate to them. Or at least the podcasters do.
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Gregory Carl returns to NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast to critique the movie that established the equation of Rutger Hauer + Action Gimmick = Low Brow Gold. 1989's "Blind Fury" was an early 90s' basic cable Cubs/Braves rain delay stand by. A blind sword-swinging Hauer vs. Randle "Tex" Cobb & Sho Kosugi screams entertainment. Why would you want to see the Cubs be the Cubs when the game resumed?
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CatBusRuss found Ti West's "X" to be a genius work of horror and satire, so of course he is pumped for the trilogy's finale, "MaXXXine", which comes out this Fourth of July Weekend (2024). But, if he does not watch the middle feature of the series, is he showing West the proper respect he deserves? We cannot have that, so our host finally got to this iTunes purchase, "Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story", just in case the ghost of the first film's mass-murderer shows up to close out the franchise.
As for the announcement promised in the title, CatBusRuss has gotten a chance to bring Ninety For Chill: The Podcast to Chicago's oldest comic con, Fan Expo. All the details thus far are discussed.
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