Skies of Fortune Presents "Perfect Blue"
Jess McCord, a mind behind the tabletop role-playing game "Skies of Fortune" might be CatBusRuss's go to anime expert. The last time our host was up to speed with the animation genre were the days of ADV Films, Central Park Media, and Manga Entertainment.
When it came to the distributor with the best full-length films, Manga was the company to turn to for timeless, possibly perfect offerings. One of those features being Satoshi Kon's "Perfect Blue".
Russ still has panels from Missouri Comic Con to post on the I Dig Crazy Flicks podcast feed, but it is Ani-May, so he feels its only appropriate to post a review for an anime film before the TED Talk. The best attended panel was dedicated to the concept of Ninety For Chill. Since that was a discussion about the entertainment industry, it would only be fitting to feature a Japanese-animated feature about that.
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“I Dig Crazy Flicks” was founded as “Ninety For Chill”. It is Russ Stevens’s blog dedicated to movies with runtimes between 70 to 100 minutes. This runtime was the standard for horror movies and goofball comedies. Without the time for drawn out narratives, throwing everything at the wall and seeing what would stick was the rule. Thus, craziness ensues, and cinephiles like CatBusRuss want to preach the greatness of embracing the insanity.
Recent Episodes
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Episode 269
“Ninety for Chill” celebrates #Ani-May with @skiesoffortune.bsky.social to discuss the debut feature of greatest #anime mind who left us too soon, Satoshi Kon. “Perfect Blue” is a li’l Hitchcock, a li’l Argento, and very poignant in our celeb-obsessed culture.
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Episode 268
CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic try their best to honor Japan during Ani-May by discussing their other great influence to cinema, kaijus. They chat about “Mothra vs. Godzilla”. Russ also reviews giant robot anime film, “Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture”.
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Episode 267
Russ was exhausted, he was a week late for #EbertFest. This led to a binge of offbeat cinema concluding with festival film, Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”, the perfect balance of laughs & intensity. “Ready or Not 2” has its intense moments.
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Episode 266
CatBusRuss and Andrew Tiede bring the “1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match” to UI-Con 2026. Is Champaign ready for Sho Kosugi and Sho’Nuff to try and take the action hero crown?
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Episode 265
CatBusRuss concludes his panels at #MissouriComicCon. How did he fair against a competing #StarTrekTNG cast panel? A preview of his chat with @ccinemapodcast.bsky.social about #MST3k. A movie review for a God in a Glory Hole film from @rebekahmckendry.bsky.social.
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Bonus
If you’re a panelist at #MissouriComicCon, it’s you versus the #celebrities. And the #nerds of Springfield seem even more supportive of creatives. Wish we could take them all to #Hooters to celebrate.
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Episode 264
Perhaps the most tangent-filled chat between Russ & Andrew Tiede. Their chat about the pinnacle of Steven Seagal required a bathroom break. Wrestling and drugs maybe the only thing “Under Siege” was missing.
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Episode 263
CatBusRuss is joined by ThePoeticCritic to recap the whole C2E2 2026. Was the Geena Davis or Christopher Eccleston panel the must? CatBus reviews “Aliens: Resurgence - For the Hive” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
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Bonus
CatBusRuss recaps the first day of C2E2 2026. Geena Davis panel. Channel Awesome’s “Movies Everyone Disagrees with You On”. Chicago Podcasters Unite meet up. “Hear Me Out: Smash or Pass”.
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Episode 262
CatBusRuss and Andrew Tiede discuss whether or not ninety minutes is the runtime screenwriters should aim for at what was probably the least attended panel at UI-Con.
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Episode 261
CatBusRuss reviews three Michael Biehn and “Underwater” as a placeholder for “The Abyss”. Is/was Biehn genre cinema’s Harrison Ford? The films reviewed are “Timebomb”, “The Insatiable”, and “The Victim”
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Episode 260
CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic return to Northwestern Univeristy for their annual B-Fest. This 24-hour celebration of the “Best of the Worst” movies ever made. 2026 featured “The Pirate Movie”, “The Dragon Lives Again”, “Down”, “Voyage of the Rock Aliens”, “Demons”, and more.
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Episode 149
CatBusRuss concludes the third year of Ally’s Accessories Shop’s “Trash Feature Revue” with a showdown between Milla Jovovich and Winona Ryder. “You Stupid Man”, “Zoolander”, and “1969” are reviewed.
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Bonus
Have American movie goers forgotten the legacy of John Woo? Why have producers thought that Joel Kinnaman is a movie star? Can action movies be experimental? Is "Die Hard" the only badass Christmas movie?
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Episode 150
Ninety For Chill is closing out 2023 with some cinematic banter from ThePoeticCritic. CatBusRuss and his big sister discuss how the movie landscape has changed, be it offerings for the multiplexes or streaming services. Their primary concern: Where are the movies?
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