Dude, Where's My Ebertfest? Get Out, Ready or Not 2, Black Dynamite
Reality may be getting the best of CatBusRuss. The search for full-time employment has sprouted some leads, but it left our podcast host so exhausted, he may have lost a week. He was doing his best to have the energy to check out the final Ebertfest. Unfortunately, the focus of regaining that power led him to think Champaign's film festival was a week later.
Russ arrived at the Virginia Theater to see the Academy Award Winning feature "Get Out". It would be a wasted effort not to go to a cinema that was open.
This led CatBus to see "Ready or Not 2: Here I Come" during its last weekend on the big screen. It was just a weird day in the sense that he watched another African-American focused film, "Black Dynamite" to get in the right mind set to watch Jordan Peele's debut film.
Russ had always been hesitant about revisiting this Michael Jai White film because, when he first saw it, he thought it was perfect. Why risk staining those memories? Since our host was asking himself that, he decided to also muster up the courage to rewatch "Dude, Where's My Car?".
Raw. Baked. Ridiculously Good.
3X the Protein, 50% the Sugar, 20% the Carbs.
“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 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 259
CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic debate whether or not “Kpop Demon Hunters” is worthy of having a spot in The Criterion Collection. After watching the French animated feature “Fantastic Planet”, our host further believes Huntrx’s recognition is undeserved.
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Bonus
Tim Loss and CatBusRuss discuss what may be the “Easy Rider” for Generation X. John Doe of X and Adam Horowitz of The Beastie Boys go on a motorcycle journey to spread a friend’s ashes. The challenge may not be the road, but the people they meet on the way.
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Episode 152
CatBusRuss & @jdgreving.bsky.social
discussion an attempt to make Jason Lee a movie star and the last gasp of Tom Green’s celebrity cache in a fun, brisk caper from “A Kid in the Hall”.
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Episode 151
CatBusRuss composes a fun, four-film action movie marathon from a pool of both “Black Mask” films, Brian Bosworth v. Lance Henriksen in “Stone Cold”, “Batman: A Death in the Family”, Dolph Lundgren in “Men of War”, and Joey Lawrence in “Android Apocalypse”.
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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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