Suggesting “Chuck Norris was a Sith Lord!!!” can bring a lot of attention. Russ was an impromptu panelist for the 80s’ #Transformers animated movie. Enjoys the bastardization of the top IPs at #BootlegSafari. Has Russ found the worst Paul WS film?

CatBusRuss needed a great day to kickoff #IndianaComicConvention after enduring “Deathstalker (1983)”. Thankfully the reps from the @raybradburycenter.bsky.social gave us four great panels. Fembots, Censorship, & more.

It’s been a busy weekend for CatBusRuss. He had to catch the first showing of #Mandalorian & #Grogu Thursday. Friday was the drive to #QuadCitiesComicCon and #Pokemon Concierge binge. And then two panels in East Moline.

“I Dig Crazy Flicks” is declaring May 18, 2026 “MORTAL MONDAY 2”. Why did Midway & #WBD abandon that promo? Russ reviews #MortalKombat2 and puts it up against “ #StreetFighter: The #Animated #Movie” to make the #podcast fit in to #ani-may.

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.

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”.

CatBusRuss is joined by Rae and Ween from the B3 Podcast to discuss James Whale’s influential horror movies that created the Universal Monster franchise, “Frankenstein” and “The Invisible Man”. Our host also reviews the Tubi movie “Nanoshark”.

CatBusRuss approves of the first 21st century sequel to “Ghostbusters” and acknowledges the sound filmmaking of the first reboot. He is joined by Andrew Tiede to worship the original Ivan Reitman/Bill Murray trilogy: “Meatballs”, “Caddyshack”, and “Ghostbusters” (1984).

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.

CatBusRuss finally watches the non-Tarantino sections of “Four Rooms” and plays six degrees of Kevin Bacon & Emily Blunt with “Wild Target”, “Detective Pikachu”, and “R.I.P.D.”.

CatBusRuss is joined by Veronica Vetter and ThePoeticCritic to discuss “This Is Spinal Tap”. It is the most influential mockumentary and immediately established the legitimacy of a directorial and comedic legend, Rob Reiner.

CatBusRuss explores what are perhaps the most influential movies Mark L Lester ever directed: the classic “Class of 1984” and the “Class of 1999” franchise. The Roger Corman influence is shown in White Snake exploitation tale “Groupie”.

CatBusRuss reviews the anime “A Whisker Away” and how the second day of Chicago TARDIS actually provided a non-Whovian panels and activities to do after a very neurospicy day one.

The Stevens’s siblings needed to be in Chicago on Thanksgiving for the “Doctor Who”, TARDIS. Only the Lombard AMC had food for sell that holiday, so CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic went to the movies.

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.

A discussion about the “Saw” 1-8. A sister celebrating Disney’s failures. An opinion about a doc dedicated to cheap, licensed Halloween costumes.

CatBusRuss determines what the best feature he discovered in 2024, a showdown between “Coraline”, “Shredder Orpheus”, and “The 4:30 Movie”.

CatBusRuss determines what the best film he found in 2021 & 2022. Cronenberg vs. Bill & Ted vs. Animation.

A wise thing to do in 1988 was to ride on Sam Raimi's coattails. In steps ⁠Kevin Tenney⁠ with "⁠Night of the Demons⁠".

Horror may be too extreme a term for the fourth week of November, but then came his career in customer service. So the "⁠ThanksKilling⁠" franchise and the ⁠Bruce Campbell⁠produced "⁠Black Friday⁠" may be appropriate comfort viewing for the holiday season kick off.

CatBusRuss makes a six-pack of movie reviews based around his favorite cinema concepts. “Hellboy (2019)”, “Paradise Hills”, “Class Action Park”, “Risky Business”, “Spiral: From the Book of Saw”, “Nocturne (2016)”.