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Bonus: #ICC25: The Last Jedi - Masterpiece with Bryan Young, Clayton Sandell, and Darby Harn

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Bonus: #ICC25: The Last Jedi - Masterpiece with Bryan Young, Clayton Sandell, and Darby Harn

It is about 3:45 am on Stacia Hardin's Birthday. She happens to share that day with one of the most important days in the whole of nerdom, May the Fourth Be with You. The last time CatBusRuss saw her, she was playing nurse as his right wrist had just been surgically repaired, feeding him chocolate pie and giving him a comfort plush Ewok. Damn she was a truly a great person to let our host know that today was the day to release "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" panel from Indiana Comic Con 2025 on the "I Dig Crazy Flicks" podcast feed.

It was an honor for Russ to even be invited on this panel. The man who pitched the panel was Bryan Young, an award-winning writer and filmmaker who sports a "Revenge of the Sith" t-shirt on his Wikipedia page. Joining the two were Darby Harn, sci-fi/fantasy author of books like "Stargun Messenger" and Emmy award-winning, Scripps New Correspondent and "Star Wars" expert Clayton Sandell. Our podcast host just did his best to be the voice of the everyday fan in a round table with people who have made a living from their expertise. Was he able to hang with them as they discussed one of the best "Star Wars" features, regardless of what the Internet says? Listen and judge.


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Stallone 6-Pack: The 90-Minute Traumas & Feels

The king of action movies that run between 70-100 minutes is Sylvester Stallone. If the feature was focused on action over drama in the 80s, they were brief affairs. Some were good, some were bad, but they all benefit from their sleek runtimes.

CatBusRuss has tackled four* of Sly's features before, but did not have any representation from the current decade. So, he decided to bring back his reviews of "beloved" features like "Nighthawks", "Cobra", "Over the Top" and "Judge Dredd", and sandwich them between a two-picture binge. Our host takes 2022's superhero feature "Samaritan" and the 2021 re-edit of his favorite "Rocky" feature, "Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut".

Adam Howard - Night Hawks alternative poster.

Russ goes through the entire range of emotions though out this episode. He pities the fans of Stallone's attempts to connect with kids, tears up for the relatable heroes, loves all of the outrageous moments, and experiences PTSD with the director's latest decisions. This podcast may be the emotional roller coaster that the icon has tried to deliver since the original "Rocky".

Fan art for the Stallone movie "Cobra" by Marshall Nedd

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