Silly Cinema that will question all of your emotional responses.
You cannot happen to laugh despite the serious nature and themes. CatBusRuss supposes that mean it is just black comedy, but if you think of a film like Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”, are these laughs intended?
Off the Wall Features
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
CatBusRuss compares his favorite tale of a quest for vengeance in the 19th Century, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, to novelist Josh Nealis’s favorite film based on the premise, “The Count of Monte Cristo” (2002).
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)
How well does a movie based on an 11-minute long television show work out. It has its moments, but CatBusRuss is not asking for “Super Jail” the movie.
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"Arena (1989)" - An Evil Penguin in Sloth's Corner & Raimi's "Doctor Strange"
Our host wrote a review for this Charles Band produced feature back in 2019, and it caught the attention of one of the premier nerdy minds in the Champaign/Urbana metroplex, Tim Bates of Evil Penguin Games.
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Pluto TV: "Arena" Missteps to the Best Mono-Y-Mono Flick of 1989?
Charles Band produces the best one-on-one combat feature of the year. It is the story of a down on his luck human with a knack for combat. On a space station, the opponents can be any monster that an Empire budget can offer.
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Assassination of a High School President (2008)
CatBusRuss’s editing project from his Mass Communication time at Illinois Central College was devoted to the hard to distribute comedy about high school violence.
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Better of Dead (1985)
John Cusack cannot manage to take his own life after his girlfriend leaves him for the ski team captain, so hopefully Curtis Armstrong and the mute French foreign exchange student will get his life back on the right path.
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Brigsby Bear (2017)
CatBusRuss thought this was the best sub 100-minute movie that he discovered in 2019. It is the story of a young adult who was kidnapped as a baby and raised on a sci-fi TV show his “father” created to encourage his math skills.
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Companion (2025) & Cherry 2000 (1988)
CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl investigate the morality of being in love with robots designed to be so. Why are we dicks when it comes to AI? Have we learned nothing from Dick and Crichton?
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Crash (1996)
David Cronenberg’s feature about a club whose fetish is having sex in motor vehicles, particularly as they end up in horrific accidents.
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Dressing Up Halloween: The Story of Ben Cooper, Inc. (2024)
Per IMDb: Ben Cooper Inc.'s costume-in-a-box revolutionized Halloween in the late 1930s, allowing children to dress as pop culture characters.
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Frank (2014)
Jon, an aspiring songwriter/keyboardist finds himself producing an album for The Soronprfbs, a band led by Frank. Frank refuses to remove his paper-mache head, so you know Jon will try to make this genius viral.
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God Bless America (2011)
Frank loses his job on the same day he is informed that he has an inoperable cancer. And all people are talking about is an awful performance on the most popular singing reality show. With the help of disenchanted high schooler Roxy, the two go cross country to give the USA something worth talking about.
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Des Moines sees 'Ninety For Chill: The Panel with Jess McCord' & 'I Saw the TV Glow'
GalaxyCon Des Moine’s celebration of films that don’t outstay their welcome. CatBusRuss endures a viewing of a deeply personal ode to Nickelodeon, “I Saw the TV Glow”.
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Invitation to a Suicide (2004)
Pablo Schreiber is in debt to the Russian mob. If he does not pay off that debt, his father will be executed. Fortunately, the mob shoots snuff films. He offers to be the star of the next film to settle his account.
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Milla Jovovich 2019: "Hellboy" & "Paradise Hills"
Jovovich was is a couple of features that critics were overly harsh to. Bad CG effects hindered the fun of Niel Marshall’s film. You’re overly serious to look down on the Emma Roberts flick.
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Making MegaForce (2025)
Bob Lindenmayer wanted to direct a making of documentary about his favorite movie, 1982’s “MegaForce”. Then he became best friends with Barry Bostwick, the film’s star. Now he wants to relive the best times of his childhood with Ace Hunter.
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Shredder Orpheus (1990)
Orpheus leads the Shredders, a skate punk band in the dystopian Pacific Northwest. The band’s success is not enough after his wife Eurydice is taken by the Euthanasia Broadcast Network. With his Lyre-Axe and board, he will try to bring her back to the Grey Zone, no matter the cost.
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There's Nothing Out There...Except Nix Eclips
Nix Eclips from “Cinema Shit Show” comes on to discuss this Troma-distributed horror comedy that beat “Scream’s” meta-humor by fire years.