NinetyForChill: The #Podcast: Cinematic Potluck with ThePoeticCritic

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Episode 110: Cinematic Potluck with ThePoeticCritic

Cinematic Potluck with ThePoeticCritic

Tuesday Mar 07, 2023

CatBusRuss's taking on a second job is providing him with fewer opportunities to record new episodes of NinetyForChill: The #Podcast. He will make time to create weekly content, but the world does not revolve around him. On top of that, where is the time for him to watch new movies? Fortunately, family stepped up to help him out this week. ThePoeticCritic has a lot to say about the state of cinema at the moment, and she wanted a platform. The two siblings have a boundless conversation to address their favorite actors, the upcoming and previous Oscars, and hopes of fewer comic book movies.

As for movie reviews, our host was able to watch Costas Mandylor of "Saw" fame star in a 2022 knock off of the franchise he is best known for with "Death Count". With that said, we never saw Det. Hoffman die. So could this be considered a spinoff?

Allow me to get out of third-person. Happy Prof. Shurtleff of Illinois Central College? I (CM Darth) will try not to make so much light of violent death in this summation. This is my declaration of changing perspective.

I think I maybe use to the 50-(55)-hour work week at least in terms of exhaustion. My issue now is just finding time to do anything else. Perhaps I should have skipped the new job night out on my only day off between the two of them.

Not to say that I had a podcast recording lined up. As I stated in last week's blog, with plans to transition away from Podbean, there is not going to be a lot of pressure to try and force guests on to the show. Next week will be the "mega" version of my conversations about Adam Sandler with Joe Golwitzer. My anal-retentive nature is inspiring me to leave Podbean with a multiple of five for total episodes, so there maybe some bonus throwback episodes until my current subscription ends with the provider.

I am still determined to keep up the podcast, but the past week was tough. Unless guests want to stay up late, Sundays are the only day that I am certain can be made for podcasting. With that said, if you have a movie or topic that you want to chat about, send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

It was nice to talk about the future of the podcast instead of the disasters and difficulties that are not work related. I have a car bumper that decided to conclude falling apart. Eva's vet appointment has to be rescheduled to accept the cost of the car. There is bathroom cleaning and laundry for my day off. When you fall in the shower and bruise everything, responsibilities seem to be paramount over fun.

And Eva is trying to fill in all the roles that Skimble left. She will not listen to me telling her those are not queenly chores. Well, except for the extra cuddling.

I suppose I could surrender the co-hosting duties to my big sister, ThePoeticCritic. Not having a set topic was a little weird with her, but she really came out of her shell for this episode. It would be weird to close out this era of NinetyForChill with a Seinfeldian episode, but when you get topics like the following, I think it at least demonstrates the product's personality.

• Heath Ledger vs. Alan Tudyk.
• Our top ten favorite actors who are not Johnny Depp or Woody Allen.
• YouTube Rips vs. YouTube Rentals.
• The importance of cinematic duologies.
• William Hurt being like Johnny Depp and Woody Allen.
• Willem Dafoe's important works like "Streets of Fire" and "The Last Temptation of Christ".
• The 1988 Oscars.
• C2E2 2023 anticipation.
• And our hopes for better (or fewer) superhero movies.

Follow me on Twitter @catbusruss. If you want to be on the show, contact me on Twitter or send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All we need is a theme, movie, director, or actor and a focus on sub 100-minute material. As long as the credits start before the 1:39:59 mark on the runtime bar, the movie qualifies.

 

NinetyForChill: The Mega #Podcast: Stealing Harvard, Spaceballs, and Podbean’s Darkside

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Episode 109: Stealing Harvard, Spaceballs, and Podbean’s Darkside

MEGA Podcast: Stealing Harvard, Spaceballs, and Podbean’s Darkside

Tuesday Feb 28, 2023

This is a case of CatBusRuss trying to make chicken salad from chicken waste. Between starting a second job and his scheduled recording falling through at the last minute, he did not have a way to line up a new guest. But, with Podbean only allowing a hundred episodes to show up on the top podcast apps, there is a fear that some of the past episodes will be lost when/if the podcast changes platforms. We cannot lose our only episodes (thus far) with JD Greving of JDHD and Jessica Kwazz from "2nd Chance Movies". Thus, welcome to the Stealing Harvard (2002) and Spaceballs (1987) mega episode. It also features NinetyForChill legend ThePoeticCritic.

Allow me to get out of third-person. Happy Prof. Shurtleff of Illinois Central College? I (CM Darth) will try not to make so much light of violent death in this summation. This is my declaration of changing perspective.

I am still trying to adjust to the two-job schedule. On top of that, it looks like trying to format this blog on my Chromebook is further torture. One can appreciate that this computer was designed by guys who love Linux, but I am 20 years removed from my prime HTML coding.

This leads to further disdain for Marine Bank leaving me with a meager $300 tax refund. If I was not canned by a vindictive Karen, Marissa Embry, who found a better job, but felt that leaving without trying to ruin my life would not be worth it. Fingerhut's on this markup Mediatek powered device would be something I could have avoided.

And now I could go into work shopping a parody of The Cure's "Killing an Arab", but my new job might frown on that. They may be fine with the idea, but they cannot have customers in Downstate Illinois recognizing this snowflake. Or can they with the product we sell? This is a dangerous rabbit hole, and I need more guests on this show to distract me from ranting about why I have two jobs.

Sundays are the only day that I am certain can be made for podcasting. With that said, if you have a movie or topic that you want to chat about, send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

On top of fiscal stresses, I have the drama of needing to move on to a new podcast distributor. Podbean has a great app to record podcasts on, but that is about it. The support team is fine, but support is not someone I should need to address.

Right now, I do not want to give Podbean more money to ensure that all my recordings are going to be featured on Apple, Google, and Spotify's feeds. The move could backfire, but you need to provide better service to discourage this. And not suggest conservative bullshit to listen to. If the app store can offer me fine suggestions, so should you. What else are cookies for.

It is going to be weird for the next few weeks for the show. Maybe I will just bank episodes until the transition is completed. I am thinking about keeping the feed alive with more "MEGA" episodes like this one. In other words, Podbean was going to take my "Stealing Harvard" and "Spaceballs" episodes off the feed next. Jessica Kwaz and JD Greving are guests I would like to have on again, so they shall not be forgotten.

On top of that, can this show ever get enough of ThePoeticCritic. Judging that her Twitter friends have yet to show support on the social media, the answer may be no. But denial is not only a river in Egypt.

And now I wish that I did not leave this blog with a trailer for Mel Brook's classic "Spaceballs". The comb the desert clip is always near the top of the YouTube algorithm.

Despite Podbean dropping the ball, the MP3's are always going to be under my MainEventOfTheDead.com domain. And of course, there are always the original blog posts. If you do not have three and a half hours, visit the links below:

"Stealing Harvard" with JDHD (Because they won't give Skimble a scholarship).

A 2nd Chance to Master the Schwartz and "Spaceballs"
The Schwartz Is Strong with ThePoeticCritic and The Kwazz

Follow me on Twitter @catbusruss. If you want to be on the show, contact me on Twitter or send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All we need is a theme, movie, director, or actor and a focus on sub 100-minute material. As long as the credits start before the 1:39:59 mark on the runtime bar, the movie qualifies.

 

NinetyForChill: The #Podcast: B-Fest 2023: Kaiju & Blobs & Roller Disco & Dafoe Leather & Uwe Boll

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Episode 108: B-Fest 2023: Kaiju & Blobs & Roller Disco & Dafoe Leather & Uwe Boll

B-Fest 2023: Kaiju & Blobs & Roller Disco & Dafoe Leather & Uwe Boll

Tuesday Feb 21, 2023

CatBusRuss returns to Northwestern to challenge his cinematic endurance with the 40th Edition of AO B-Fest. “American Ninja” with a crowd sounded fun, but Willem Dafoe in the “Rock ‘n Roll Fable” “Streets of Fire” made it clear that this 24-hour marathon was a must attend. And surely “Xanadu’s” infamy was over blown…right?

Allow me to get out of third-person. Happy Prof. Shurtleff of Illinois Central College? I (CM Darth) will try not to make so much light of violent death in this summation. This is my declaration of changing perspective.

Life has been pretty hectic recently. I have just started a second job, so finding time to write the blogs for each podcast episode has obviously been difficult. So far, Mondays have been free, but that is just the prelude to a 50-hour work week. By Sunday, catching up on all the AEW Wrestling programming is what comes first and foremost.

I am still determined to keep up the podcast, but the past week was tough. There was a recording scheduled, but other people have lives, so it did not pan out. Unless guests want to stay up late, Sundays are the only day that I am certain can be made for podcasting. With that said, if you have a movie or topic that you want to chat about, send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

Or, if you cannot be on the show, let me know of cool cinematic events that I can attend. Or, give me some feedback about the idea of a Patreon. I have to get gas money to drive up to the Music Box Theater every weekend. Two more stays are necessary for me to remain a gold member with Hilton Honors as well.

The actual solution to my issues is, again, to move up to Chicagoland. My landlords upping my rent another $50 like the prior year. What happened to consideration initially provided for the red stain that knocked $50 off my initial rent? What could that substance be?

So I think that means B-Fest was a success for me this year. I am bitching more about my life than enduring what is essentially a double feature in "Xanadu" and Uwe Boll's "BloodRayne". Regardless of the quality of the closing features, fun was still had throughout the two films. That is a step up from last year's "Godzilla" cartoon and "Beast from Haunted Cave".

It may have been the larger crowd. The audience must have been three times larger than the 2022 crowd. In other words, I did not get a couple of Italian exploitation films as a door prize. This larger crowd did allow for some shadow casts and other odes to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". More importantly, I got to see Rick Moranis try to stand up to a leather suspender-sporting Willem Dafoe in "Streets of Fire".

"Big Man Japan" was awesome and "The Children" and "American Ninja" are the type of films that drive this podcast. With how hectic my life is, I am proud to say that I am already pumped for "B-Fest 2024". See you then.

Follow me on Twitter @catbusruss. If you want to be on the show, contact me on Twitter or send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All we need is a theme, movie, director, or actor and a focus on sub 100-minute material. As long as the credits start before the 1:39:59 mark on the runtime bar, the movie qualifies.

 

NinetyForChill: The #Podcast: What a Twist??? ”High Tension” & ”Sleepaway Camp” with Rae from 3B

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Episode 107: What a Twist??? ”High Tension” & ”Sleepaway Camp” with Rae from 3B.

What a Twist??? ”High Tension” & ”Sleepaway Camp” with Rae from 3B

Since the original "Friday the 13th", it is safe to say that a third of slasher movies try to subvert audience expectations with a third act twist. Just trying to identify the killer may have become a stale concept far too early in the genre, so some films are dependent on discovering the deep-seeded why behind a killer's motivation. Much of the time, that ends up holding a fun or even brilliant film back. CatBusRuss and "Booze, Boobs & Blood's" Rae explore two examples of this: 2003's "High Tension" and 1983's "Sleepaway Camp".

Allow me to get out of third-person. Happy Prof. Shurtleff of Illinois Central College? I (CM Darth) will try not to make so much light of violent death in this summation. This is my declaration of changing perspective.

It seems that I am getting more accustomed to these seemingly longer weeks. I was able to watch "AEW Rampage" live on Friday night despite all the Midnight Moon Blackberry Moonshine that I drank on Wednesday recording this episode, Pour Bros. Trivia on Thursday, and still just being over halfway through a six-day work week. All it cost me was not seeing the 4-star+ bout between MJF and Takeshita.

And, there was no tequila/mezcal involved in Whaddayaknow Trivia. Perhaps that is why team "Shrug Life" failed to defend our championship. Good things happen for me when agave-based booze is involved.

I suppose I could try to dedicate myself to healthier living. Rae had recently quit drinking and sounds better for it. Or that means she has finally recovered from walking pneumonia and two bouts with COVID. Hopefully, my shot of Malort to open the podcast did not offend her. She was probably more on edge about me telling her that I got shingles at 35. That was the one disease she was happy about not starting the new year with

She is a podcasting professional, so her demeanor remained upbeat. I find that to be impressive since we were chatting about two slasher movies that do so many good things that a poor executed twist lets those film fall from great to average at best.

"High Tension" was a great horror film about a mysterious killer. It is French Extreme, so the violence and gore is beautiful. But, perhaps being French, the auteur Alexandre Aja felt that it had to actually be clever. Needless to say, I wish I was in England when this film was released because the title "Switchblade Romance" would have left me better prepared for the swing and a miss the unnecessary third act is. There just had to be a better way to get that pavement saw scene into the tale.

As for "Sleepaway Camp", Rae's suggestion for this double feature, we both found it to be a quaint little horror flick. Of course it is from the eighties, so satanic/homophobic/transphobic panic had to be the reason for the evil acts taken. There is no Satanism, the trans elements are fine, but they needed to shoehorn the gay subversive subtext. Was it meant to confuse us like the killer?

This week's trip to "Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy's Trash Feature Revue" is also a horror movie that tries to be satirical. Sorry Robert DeNiro, but Stephen Graham is my Al Capone (Boardwalk Empire).

"Doghouse" is a tale of immature, 30-something Londoners who decide to get away from the city for a guy's weekend in Moodley, 300 miles from London. Their mate from the town says that there is a 4 to 1 female to male ration there, so that should get the soon-to-be divorced Vince over his depression. Sadly, that ratio is now 400 to them after a bioweapon had turned all the women there into pissed off, cannibalistic feminists.

Follow me on Twitter @catbusruss. If you want to be on the show, contact me on Twitter or send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All we need is a theme, movie, director, or actor and a focus on sub 100-minute material. As long as the credits start before the 1:39:59 mark on the runtime bar, the movie qualifies.

 

NinetyForChill: The #Podcast: Buckaroo Banzai vs. ThePoeticCritic

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Episode 106: Buckaroo Banzai vs. ThePoeticCritic.

Buckaroo Banzai vs. ThePoeticCritic

Jeff Goldblum maybe NinetyForChill's "In case of fire, break glass" metaphor. It is an easy means to bring ThePoeticCritic back on the show to discuss a classic sci-fi feature. (With Jim Carrey's rubberface, we would be consider that to be syfy.) The guy who was the blue alien may draw TPC out, but Peter Weller seems to have an ability to capture CatBusRuss's attention. Throw in some Clancy Brown, and he will be there. Needless to say, 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.

Allow me to get out of third-person. Happy Prof. Shurtleff of Illinois Central College? I (CM Darth) will try not to make so much light of violent death in this summation. This is my declaration of changing perspective.

It was a nice change of pace to have some consecutive days off during the week. Yes, this blog is being posted about 18 hours after I uploaded the podcast, but optimizing my PlayStation 5 seemed more worthwhile. Here is to hoping that I do not use the remainder of my Xfinity internet data. All the games I am downloading to make sure Sony cannot take them away from me will have a price. At least that is not the conglomerate who is going to benefit financially.

There is not really a lot of pressure on me right now. This podcast was recorded an hour after "The Lost Boys with @CouchManBakes", so there was no urgency to binge movies. I guess the shame is that the podcast has not done much with new-to-me movies.

But why worry about the new stuff when you have classics that require recognition. The best comic book movies follow the groundwork laid by "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension".

If you call yourself a fan of the eighties, this feature offers everything fun about the decade to the audience. New wave music. Robocop. The Kurgan. Jeff Goldblum's first exposition dump. Crazy John Lithgow. The actual birth of Christopher Lloyd's villainous performances.

The ensemble cast inspired a trip to "Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy's Trash Feature Revue". With the letter C, Ally actually supplied me with a disc. We have different taste, so those are greater gambles than when I try to feel in the void. But, as it turns out, I have yet to see a bad sub 100-minute film starting with that letter (at least when it comes to Ally's trash).

"Columbus Circle" is a fun ensemble piece about a shut-in heiress who is paranoid of everyone. Of course, just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you. Selma Blair, Beau Bridges, Kevin Pollak, Jason Lee, the weakest name in the cast is Amy Smart, but I do not find that to be an insult. Give Pollak an "everything is not what it seems" story, and it may be guaranteed gold.

Follow me on Twitter @catbusruss. If you want to be on the show, contact me on Twitter or send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All we need is a theme, movie, director, or actor and a focus on sub 100-minute material. As long as the credits start before the 1:39:59 mark on the runtime bar, the movie qualifies.