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.

Which 1986 fighter pilot flick was better: “Iron Eagle” or “Top Gun”? Which 1986 cartoon was better: “The Great Mouse Detective” or “An American Tale”? What film from 1986 had the best robot? CatBusRuss & Andrew Tiede explore these at UI-Con.

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?

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.

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 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.

CatBusRuss is joined by Nix Eclips to bring the joy of sub 100-minute movies, catch a few panels, and worship at the groovy altar of Bruce Gamble. Will this be the only or first GalaxyCon St. Louis?

CatBusRuss gets another celebrity F-Bomb at a Q&A & checked out his first “Star Trek” adjacent panel with the “Inglorious Treksperts”.

Russ was on 2.25 panels including @skiesoffortune “A24: Horror…Art House”, and he got to see “Doctor Who” legends John Barrowman & Karen Gillan be cool to fans.

“1985 Action Movie Triple Threat” returns. 1st live recording of the “None of This Matters”. The privilege to see the con debut of a doc for an underseen movie from 1982.

CatBusRuss asks John Cena the nicest question he had ever been asked. He breaks down the Ewan McGregor & Hayden Christensen Jedi Double Feature. We all love low-budget vampire movies, right?

CatBusRuss reviews an under appreciated virtual reality movie and discusses everything leading up to the John Cena panel and the harm from Bootleg Safari.

CatBusRuss reviews a giallo “classic” and recaps the events he found at Fan Expo Chicago 2025 (Day 1). Famous voice actors, the grunts of “Aliens” (and Paul Reiser), and foam combat.

CatBusRuss is joined by filmmaker Mario DeAngelis and dark fantasy writer Hollis Jo McCollum about action movies from 1985 and the legacy of the Cannon Group.

CatBusRuss gets Kiefer Sutherland to curse during a “Young Guns” panel and becomes a host for the creator and cast of “The Crow (1994)”.

atBusRuss dedicated the first day of ATL Comic Convention to checking out panels and being a panelist to celebrate Rian Johnson’s “Brick”. He also reviews John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness”.

CatBusRuss hosts his TED Talk about movies tend to be too long. He offers some crazy movies to his audience and supplies them with Capri Sun and Hostess Cherry Pies.

CatBusRuss reviews the first day he attended Capital City Comic Con 2025 and the David Carradine film “Crime Zone”. Is our host the ideal center square for a “Hollywood Squares” panel?

CatBusRuss⁠ goes home to deal with plumbing issues at the folks’ house, but primarily to check out his first ⁠Quad Con⁠ with ⁠ThePoeticCritic⁠. If it was not for ⁠The Cinema Snob⁠ advertising his appearance, our host may have stayed in Urbana to catch up on “AEW: Fight Forever.”