UI-Con: Eighties Movie Podcaster in an Anime World
CatBusRuss and "Couchman" Andrew Tiede may have felt like Frank Dux and Ray Jackson walking into Kowloon for the Kumite when they arrived at the UI-Con. There was too much anime cosplay to feel like they belonged. Would they need to demonstrate the Dim Mak to show they were the right kind of nerds?
For those who feel this description is not appropriate since anime is not from Hong Kong, when CatBus was collecting tapes, the plot of "Bloodsport" was used for Episode 3 of "Street Fighter II V", an anime inspired by the video game.
But to further focus on CRAZY FLICKS, CatBusRuss has attached a review for another Lamberto Bava (Director of "Demons" and "Demons 2") film, Blastfighter. It is essentially "First Blood" exploitation but with box art that suggest its an Italian apocalypse film. Chekhov's gun has nothing on what Jake "Tiger" Sharp is packing.
“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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Bonus
UI-Con advertises itself as an Anime and Comic Convention. CatBusRuss and “Couchman” Andrew Tiede came to host panels about U.S. Domestic Cinema. How did they fair when the cosplay and vendors were focused on Japanese Cartoons?
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Episode 254
CatBusRuss and Jason Parker welcome you to the Church of Bokeem Woodbine as they discuss the bonkers feature “Caught Up”. It is a De Palma tribute from the hood.
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Episode 253
CatBusRuss is joined by a mostly focused Gregory Carl to discuss the most influential feature in adult animation, Ralph Bakshi’s debut. A time before rotoscoping.
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Episode 252
CatBusRuss recaps the last day of Fan Expo New Orleans 2026. He meets Billy Boyd and Joe Pantoliano, gets some audio from Jamison Newlander, and survives beignets and Bourbon St.
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Bonus
CatBusRuss recaps the first two day of Fan Expo New Orleans 2026. “Bootleg Safari”, John Cena, Jamison Newlander, reunions for both 1990’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and the original four Hobbits.
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Episode 251
CatBusRuss and “The Cinema Shitshow’s” Nix Eclips present GalaxyCon St. Louis with the concept of why movies should be between 70 & 100 minutes. They chat about censorship and lots of horror.
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Episode 250
Jess McCord, co-creator of TTRPG "Skies of Fortune", left GalaxyCon Des Moines's edition of "Ninety For Chill: The Panel" with a suggestion for an anime that best represents the premise of "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast". CatBusRuss had been hearing about "Pompo: The Cinephile" from Jess before he met him in Iowa's capital city.
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Episode 249
CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl determine if the French beat John Hughes to “Home Alone”. “Deadly Games” is the tale of a young boy defending his mansion and grandfather from a psychotic Father Christmas.
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Episode 248
It is Thanksgiving Week, and CatBusRuss is very thankful for the opportunity to interview the writer/director of "Cuisine de la 'Pocalypse", Kyle Weingart. If you want a story about good food in a desolate land, this is a far better tale than the white washing of colonialism's effect on Native Americans.
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Meet the Host
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.