Raised an Anglophile, CatBusRuss can laugh about nearly anything. It feels so much more satisfying when the chuckles were the artist’s intent.
Raw. Baked. Ridiculously Good.
3X the Protein, 50% the Sugar, 20% the Carbs.
Comedy Features
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1997)
CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl discuss a film that may have been the product of the greatest series ever aired of MTV.
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Bit (2019)
CatBusRuss had a podcast with too many swear words, so it only seemed appropriate to attach a review of a film that lacks a Green Band trailer.
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Bride Wars (2009)
A review during a pause in my conversation with ThePoeticCritic about B-Fest, this feature would be an ideal 4 am feature to sleep through.
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Dude Where's My Car? (2000)
CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic discuss a movie with all of her favorite things: Jeff Goldblum and Jim Carrey.
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Ghost World (2001)
CatBusRuss tells of getting to watch this feature as it was hosted by Terry Zwigoff and Thora Birch at Ebertfest 2022.
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Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Busby Berkeley was a master of musical spectacle, but did it translate to telling a narrative CatBusRuss thinks not. ThePoeticCritic comes on to argue otherwise.
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The Heist (1989), King of California (2007), Juno (2007)
Comedies ranging from blah to excellent featuring pre-Bond Brosnan, Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood, and Diablo Cody’s Oscar.
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LA Story (1991) & Midnight in Paris (2011)
Steve Martin captures his inner Woody Allen to tell a love story to the West Coast. Woody Allen honors literary heroes and the artistic town they called home.
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
John Carpenter does his best to direct Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah is a comedy about a loner playboy being chased by CIA spook Sam Neil after an industrial accident left his body invisible.
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Meatballs (1979) & Caddyshack (1980)
CatBusRuss is joined by Andrew Tiede to worship the original Ivan Reitman/Bill Murray trilogy: “Meatballs”, “Caddyshack”, and “Ghostbusters” (1984).
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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)
The Muppets and a star-studded cast try to get to the North Pole to ensure that all New Yorkers have their letters delivered to Santa. A TV special introduced CatBusRuss by his big sister, ThePoeticCritic
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Risky Business (1983) & Class Action Park (2020)
Tom Cruise stars in a movie that inspires the attitudes of the kids documented in the documentary “Class Action Park”.
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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Ramones fanatic and delinquent Riff Randell battles it out with the strict new principal of Vince Lombardi High School, Miss Togar, with help from the Ramones. - Per IMDb
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Adam Sandler's 100-Minute Filmography
QuidProJoe Golwitzer returns to “Ninety For Chill” to discuss a bunch of Adam Sandler comedies, in a time before Netflix left him with bloated runtimes.
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Stealing Harvard with JD Grieving
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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Top Secret! (1984)
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist. - Per IMdb
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Valley Girl (1983)
Nicolas Cage’s breakout role as a Romeo from Hollywood trying to capture the heart of a girl from the Valley regardless of what her friends do to him.
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend. - Per IMDb
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Wild Target (2010)
Bill Nighy is a hitman with a mother who wants him to further his family’s lineage of assassins. Emily Blunt is a thief and a target to fascinating for Nighy to kill. Rupert Grint is a nobody who walks into this drama.
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You Stupid Man (2002)
After a man finally gets over his former girlfriend, who has moved to Los Angeles and become a television star, and falls in love with another woman, the former girlfriend's show is canceled and she wants him back. - Per IMDb
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Zoolander (2001)
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. - Per IMDb
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