UI-Con's 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match: The New Challengers with Andrew Tiede
1985 action cinema may have provided the most powerful heroes in fiction. Who would be the last man standing if they were to all enter a melee? It would be a better battle than anything involving Super Saiyans, Nameks, and weird earthlings. "I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: The 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match".
Could Goku defeat Chuck Norris? If Vegeta could get up to a power level of 9000, what the hell was Sylvester Stallone's level when he beat the Vietcong and Ivan Drago in the same year? Androids with numbers in the teens cannot take out Arnold "T-800" Schwarzenegger.
CatBusRuss and "Couchman Bakes" Andrew Tiede may have been the only two presenters at UI-Con 2026 who were not focused on anime. The two have their favorites Japanese animated series ("Evangelion" & "Dragon Ball" respectively), but when they were kids in the 1980s, those series were not exactly abundant in the United States.
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“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 266
CatBusRuss and Andrew Tiede bring the “1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match” to UI-Con 2026. Is Champaign ready for Sho Kosugi and Sho’Nuff to try and take the action hero crown?
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Episode 265
CatBusRuss concludes his panels at #MissouriComicCon. How did he fair against a competing #StarTrekTNG cast panel? A preview of his chat with @ccinemapodcast.bsky.social about #MST3k. A movie review for a God in a Glory Hole film from @rebekahmckendry.bsky.social.
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Bonus
If you’re a panelist at #MissouriComicCon, it’s you versus the #celebrities. And the #nerds of Springfield seem even more supportive of creatives. Wish we could take them all to #Hooters to celebrate.
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Episode 264
Perhaps the most tangent-filled chat between Russ & Andrew Tiede. Their chat about the pinnacle of Steven Seagal required a bathroom break. Wrestling and drugs maybe the only thing “Under Siege” was missing.
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Episode 263
CatBusRuss is joined by ThePoeticCritic to recap the whole C2E2 2026. Was the Geena Davis or Christopher Eccleston panel the must? CatBus reviews “Aliens: Resurgence - For the Hive” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
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Bonus
CatBusRuss recaps the first day of C2E2 2026. Geena Davis panel. Channel Awesome’s “Movies Everyone Disagrees with You On”. Chicago Podcasters Unite meet up. “Hear Me Out: Smash or Pass”.
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Episode 262
CatBusRuss and Andrew Tiede discuss whether or not ninety minutes is the runtime screenwriters should aim for at what was probably the least attended panel at UI-Con.
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Episode 261
CatBusRuss reviews three Michael Biehn and “Underwater” as a placeholder for “The Abyss”. Is/was Biehn genre cinema’s Harrison Ford? The films reviewed are “Timebomb”, “The Insatiable”, and “The Victim”
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Episode 260
CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic return to Northwestern Univeristy for their annual B-Fest. This 24-hour celebration of the “Best of the Worst” movies ever made. 2026 featured “The Pirate Movie”, “The Dragon Lives Again”, “Down”, “Voyage of the Rock Aliens”, “Demons”, and more.
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Episode 259
CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic debate whether or not “Kpop Demon Hunters” is worthy of having a spot in The Criterion Collection. After watching the French animated feature “Fantastic Planet”, our host further believes Huntrx’s recognition is undeserved.
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Episode 258
CatBusRuss & Nix Eclips from the CinemaShitShow present GalaxyCon St. Louis with the 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match. Our host also determines if Christopher Lambert had a film that should be considered for the ‘85 melee.
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Bonus
CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic discuss the last perfect Mel Brooks film. We get to hear Jessica Kwazz’s thoughts on the whole of #StarWars as the 1st podcasting smeg up from our host.
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Episode 152
CatBusRuss & @jdgreving.bsky.social
discussion an attempt to make Jason Lee a movie star and the last gasp of Tom Green’s celebrity cache in a fun, brisk caper from “A Kid in the Hall”.
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Bonus
Tim Loss and CatBusRuss discuss what may be the “Easy Rider” for Generation X. John Doe of X and Adam Horowitz of The Beastie Boys go on a motorcycle journey to spread a friend’s ashes. The challenge may not be the road, but the people they meet on the way.
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Follow along with our host, CatBusRuss as he is supervised by Eva the Queen Kitty. He discusses a broad range of cinema and interviews fellow movie fanatics.