“I Dig Crazy Flicks”, but some features seem to make sense.
Since this podcast started as “Ninety For Chill”, CatBusRuss has been focused more on movies having the ideal runtime (70 to 100 minutes). This means he was opened to exploring features that just fit that time frame. Some of these stories do not seem that far removed from reality. Fiction or fantasy, they are neither. These stories can be and are often great, and should be told. Do they draw attention? Perhaps with the writer actor or director, they can. Regardless, not every tale needs to be loud or silly. As long as they are enjoyable, being wild and crazy is not a necessity.
Silver Screen Drama
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Blitz (2011)
A man calling himself “Blitz” is killing cops and trying to use the media to justify it. It is up to a loose cannon cop and his pencil pushing department head to stop this spree regardless of what justice system would dictate.
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
Five students who never interacted with each other wind up in Saturday detention. Here they learn they are more alike than they thought. Friendships seem the next step, but with high school culture, can they have that?
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ATL Comic Convention: Knives in My Eyes - 20 Years of 'Brick' with Tim Avers
CatBusRuss was invited to be a panelist on the “Blood Orange’s” (comic book co-creator) Tim Aver’s panel about Rian Johnson’s brilliant debut feature, the high school/film noir dramedy “Brick”.
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
One of Josh Nealis’s favorite movies, he and CatBusRuss compare this adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s story about a years long quest for vengeance to another 19th century tale of revenge, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”.
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Every Day (2010)
Liev Schreiber’s life is complicated. His wife has moved her elderly father in to their home. He is coming to terms with his son discovering his homosexuality. And his sitcom running boss insists that he works with a writer determined to get into his pants. Lots of drama and probably too much time.
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Wild Card (2015)
Nick Wild is a personal fixer in Las Vegas. He will keep doing this until he gets the money to move out of the city. Unfortunately, trying to find quicker means to do so makes this goal difficult to achieve. And when his big heart gets him in trouble with aspiring mobsters, it seems self sabotage will get the better of him.