Celebrating 'Big Trouble in Little China'. Mentioning 'KPop Demon Hunters'
CatBusRuss originally thought that this week would be a simple #RewindWednesday release, but as he was going through the "NinetyForChill dot Com - The Podcast" archives, he noticed that he had crammed a couple of classics from John Carpenter into the summer of 2022. So every other week this November will be dedicated to "The Horror Master", and this podcast will kick the theme off with what his friends would call his masterpiece, "Big Trouble in Little China".
It is may be safe to say that Russ and his guests Andrew "Baking While Baked" Tiede & "Not a Strong Start's" Jorge Marrero would agree. If not Carpenter's masterpiece, perhaps Kurt Russell's.
“I Dig Crazy Flicks” was founded as “Ninety For Chill”. It is Russ Stevens’s blog dedicated to movies with runtimes between 70 to 100 minutes. This runtime was the standard for horror movies and goofball comedies. Without the time for drawn out narratives, throwing everything at the wall and seeing what would stick was the rule. Thus, craziness ensues, and cinephiles like CatBusRuss want to preach the greatness of embracing the insanity.
Recent Episodes
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Episode 244
CatBusRuss is joined by Andrew “Couchman Bakes” Tiede & Jorge Marrero from not a “Not a Strong Start” to discuss John Carpenter’s action masterpiece. This is a film that may have led to the thought that “KPop Demon Hunters” might work.
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Episode 243
CatBusRuss and Faydra Black are given the honor to host a Q&A with the creator of “The Crow”, James O’Barr, and stars Bai Ling, Laurence Mason, and Rochelle Davis.
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Bonus
CatBusRuss had a four-movie marathon of sub 100-minute features that he intended to kick off the last week of spooky month. Lets just say Ryan Coogler's vision changed that plan. And our host had promised to go back to the Grid while it was still in theaters.
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Episode 242
GalaxyCon Des Moine’s celebration of films that don’t outstay their welcome. CatBusRuss endures a viewing of a deeply personal ode to Nickelodeon, “I Saw the TV Glow”.
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Bonus
A discussion about the “Saw” 1-8. A sister celebrating Disney’s failures. An opinion about a doc dedicated to cheap, licensed Halloween costumes, “Dressing Up Halloween: The Story of Ben Cooper, Inc.”
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Episode 241
CatBusRuss waits in the two-hour queue for a Bruce Campbell autograph to get verbally bitch slapped by the Groovy One. He offers a review for the Nix Eclipse approved “Demons 2” and recalls nerdy psychology panels.
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Episode 240
It was CatBusRuss's pleasure to be invited to be a panelist on Jess McCord's panel at GalaxyCon Des Moines. The topic of said panel, A24's rich horror movie history and influence. But, perhaps, more importantly, is calling it "elevated horror" a good thing?
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Episode 239
Comic book writer and novelist Josh Nealisis and CatBusRuss talk about two tales of 19th century tales of life-long quests for vengeance that were released 10 years apart. 2002’s “The Count of Monte Cristo”. 2012’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”.
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Episode 238
CatBusRuss lets Chuck Thomas from “Atlanta Film Chat” try and sell him on the Eighties craziness of Eric Robert’s answer to “Bloodsport” and “The Karate Kid”, 1989’s “Best of the Best.”
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