ThePoeticCritic and Her Inner Ebert
ThePoeticCritic has been an amateur cinephile going back to her toddlerhood having access to both a VCR and pay cable. By the turn of the '90s she was seeking out professional film reviews in newspapers, libraries, and bookstores. While her formal education in film did not extend beyond two college classes while getting her degrees in other subjects, she feels she has some authority to speak.
ThePoeticCritic is CatBusRuss’s older sister. She has come to the rescue of the podcast many of time when our host could not secure a guest for the show and has participated in panels to promote “NinetyForChill” at comic conventions. CatBusRuss is usually her escort to these events, so the two have quite the symbiotic friendship.
At least half of her appearances, the two siblings just discussed the state of cinema instead of an individual film or theme. Thus, a lot of their conversations cannot be easily categorized. The only thought that CatBusRuss can categorize it as Stevens Debates. Our host thinks it is best to just give her own tab.
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ThePoeticCritic’s Contributions
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TV Animation & Disney Damnation the MEGA Pod
If there was anything you could count on as brief, fun films, it was cartoons. Then the Disney "Renaissance" came, and animated features became longer and longer. Joe Golwitzer (@quidpro_joe) and ThePoeticCritic(CatBusRuss's big sister) look back the time where VHS was king and animation was cheap.
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Buckaroo Banzai vs. ThePoeticCritic
Jeff Goldblum may draw ThePoeticCritic out, but Peter Weller seems to have an ability to capture CatBusRuss's attention. Our host has the Shout! Factory's Steelbook of 1984's "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", an underappreciated blueprint of how all comic book movies should operate.
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"Earth Girls Are Easy"??? ThePoeticCritic Responds
CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic discuss a movie with all of her favorite things: Jeff Goldblum and Jim Carrey.
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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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