QCCC: Ninety for Chill versus Kirkwood Community College Anime Club
For the first time in nearly two years, CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic present the concept of Ninety For Chill to a comic convention. They opened up the fan panels at the first Quad Cities Comic Con. Russ has found that being the first panel of a convention usually guarantees an audience. This was the case, but were they prepared to amuse the Kirkwood Community College Anime Club?
These kids and chauffeurs had the same drive time from Cedar Rapids and the two sibling had from Peoria. Dubby Energy (use promo code CatBusRuss at checkout for 10% off your order) and punch & pie at least made the audience comfortable, but what were they going to bring to the conversation? How were they going to react when our podcast host suggests, "Does Hayao Miyazaki really need two hours to tell his tales?"
Speaking of confrontation, this panel inspired Russ to finally watch "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim". This anime spinoff and means for Newline Cinema's to retain the theatrical rights to the franchise clocks in at 2 hours 14 minutes.
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 276
CatBus endures the #Tubi cut of “Scanner Cop 2”, bugs #JamesPax, memorabilia collector #MarkShort, @thecinemasnob.bsky.social, and Sam #FlashGordon Jones, and enjoys the vendors & after hours at QCFrightFest & PlanetFunkCon.
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Bonus
#PlanetFunkCon may be a success just for getting a #briancohalloran autograph on a #Clerks “The Animated Series” 8x10 of “Who’s Driving? Oh no! Bear is Driving!” #KenForee & #QCFrightCon visitors were cool too.
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Episode 275
CatBusRuss & Rae from “B3 Podcast” determine if fun #horror films like “High Tension” & “Sleepaway Camp” are undone with silly, perhaps not appropriate #pride month twists. Would a crazy twist have saved “Morbius”
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Episode 274
Vern from the “Cinema Recall” comes on the show to offer what he considers to be the most off-the-wall, sub 100-minute movie ever made, “Daisies”. It is a Czechoslovakian, new wave satire about exploiting those in power via feminine wiles.
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Bonus
Suggesting “Chuck Norris was a Sith Lord!!!” can bring a lot of attention. Russ was an impromptu panelist for the 80s’ #Transformers animated movie. Enjoys the bastardization of the top IPs at #BootlegSafari. Has Russ found the worst Paul WS film?
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Bonus
CatBusRuss needed a great day to kickoff #IndianaComicConvention after enduring “Deathstalker (1983)”. Thankfully the reps from the @raybradburycenter.bsky.social gave us four great panels. Fembots, Censorship, & more.
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Episode 272
#Shudder may not be the #CriterionChannel, but it may be the most fun streaming service available. CatBusRuss reviews the love letter to Roger Corman, “Deathstalker”. He is joined by Gregory Carl to discuss Taiwan’s love letter to George A. Romero, “The Sadness”.
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Episode 271
CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic head to Quad Cities Comic Con. Russ asks Mick Foley where is the Mankind Cinematic Universe, reviews “Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation”, and provides his hottest anime take to “Trapped in Anime”.
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Bonus
It’s been a busy weekend for CatBusRuss. He had to catch the first showing of #Mandalorian & #Grogu Thursday. Friday was the drive to #QuadCitiesComicCon and #Pokemon Concierge binge. And then two panels in East Moline.
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Episode 270
CatBusRuss provides his TEDTalk about why movies rarely need to be longer than 100 minutes to #MissouriComicCon. For #Ani-May and to reinvigorate his joy of just being a fan at comic cons, he got around to watching “Otaku No Video”.
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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 137
FanExpo Chicago was lacking plentiful after hour activities, so after night two of the convention, CatBusRuss and his big sister decided to check out Greta Gerwig’s take on Mattel’s toy icon, “Barbie”.
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Follow along with our host, CatBusRuss as he is supervised by Eva the Queen Kitty. He discusses a broad range of cinema and interviews fellow movie fanatics.