Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss
We do not always have the time for a two-hour movie. No one ever wants to sit down and watch a one-hour TV drama knowing that they might not be able to stick around for an entire second episode. With this said, 90-minutes (no more than 100) is the ideal runtime. This concise time has given us some of the most rewatchable movies that may not win any Academy Awards, but are properly fun-sized for the audience. That is what NinetyForChill.com is all about, the fun-sized sweets be it experimental terror, outlandish horror, over-the-top action, or the most radical comedies and dramas.
Episodes
CatBusRuss decided to dive into some of his purchases this year. He explores half of his first Vinegar Syndrome order, the 1973 horror comedy "Arnold" and a classic he picked up on iTunes which was nearly his top discovery of 2020, the 1972 Bruce Dern sci-fi vehicle "Silent Running". Marrying corpses for inheritance loopholes and a conservationist space movie prove the seventies were a special time. Too bad cocaine and capitalism r...
ThePoeticCritic was kind enough to grace us with her presence to focus on the 2003 Will Ferrell classic, "Elf", and the near 20 years since that have been without a Christmas classic.
Of course, being a bonus episode, CatBusRuss cannot help but taint the holiday spirit by adding reviews for "The Zombie Diaries" and the weird Natasha Lyonne horror "comedy" from IFC Midnight, "Antibirth".
And like Lloyd Christmas, our host redeems hi...
It only seems appropriate to recognize the duality of Tim Burton's most beloved story, "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Thus, why not look back on Ally (of Ally's Accessories Shops on Etsy's Trash Feature Revues) and CatBusRuss's conversation about the underappreciated animation director Henry Selick's best remembered feature? Merry Christmas =^_^=
1987 may have been the peak of eighties horror. The Tommy Jarvis trilogy had concluded and Freddy was not going to top his bout with Patricia Arquette. Few would argue that neither of those franchises had what it took to surpass "Evil Dead II". The wise thing to do would have been to ride on Sam Raimi's coattails. In steps Kevin Tenney with "Night of the Demons".
Andrew "CouchManBakes" Tiede must have been sure that CatBusRuss was going to get his panel approved for Fan Expo New Orleans 2025. Why else would he have requested to cover perhaps the best narrative Jean-Claude Van Damme had ever starred in, John Woo's "Hard Target"?
That is presumptuous statement, but would it not be great for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast" to have provided a friendship for our host where a guest can ...
CatBusRuss is not really a Thanksgiving fan. The high school wrestling season started that weekend, so enjoying the feast was not really an option. Granted, NinetyForChill's host grew up a picky eater, so the holiday did not really offer anything for him. Let us not even get into familiar anxiety. Horror may be too extreme a term for the fourth week of November, but then came his career in customer service. So the "ThanksKilling" f...
If you need a director to provide you with a perfect 90 minutes of cinema, your best bet maybe David Cronenberg. The past two years on NinetyForChill.com, the best features CatBusRuss has found were helmed by this Canuck composer. Here, Russ offers his thoughts on three classics from the master of body horror: "A History of Violence", "Rabid", and "Naked Lunch".
CatBusRuss's Blue Snowball was enough to capture the vibe of 2024's Twin Cities Con. Our host and his big sister, ThePoeticCritic introduced Minneapolis to "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast" and after a little time, they got a pretty good crowd who were more than willing to give the two some "Wahoos".
Of course, Russ did not have his resources to recall that Crowley quote correctly, so it may have just been some woohoos. As the worm i...
CatBusRuss wraps up the last two days of Twin Cities Con and does his best to provide drunken affirmations to his guest for "Ninety For Chill: The Panel", ThePoeticCritic. This may have been the most patience his big sister ever displayed to him.
Our host decided to open this bonus episode of the podcast with tales of day three of the con, which was not much more than the Brian Posehn and some shopping. This decision was made after...
CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic have settled into Minneapolis to prepare for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast" at Twin Cities Con. Of course they are taking advantage of the weekend passes they were provided in exchange for the fried gold they are to deliver on Saturday, November 9.
ThePoeticCritic was content with the floor, a "What If...Doctor Who" panel, and karaoke. CatBus was scouting out other podcaster panels to prepare for his...
With Twin Cities Con this weekend, CatBusRuss is promising a lot of content for "Ninety For Chill" before next Wednesday. In the meantime, our host decided to make sure that all of the Stuart Gordon directed features that he has come across makes his current podcast feed.
"Robot Jox", "Castle Freak", and "Dagon" are all low-budget bangers. And after Russ brings up the 2013 no-budget stinker "Eternal Damn Nation", you will have a gr...
It was not a very scary "spooky month" for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast", but CatBusRuss can deliver on finding guests who can provide monsters to enjoy. Brandy "HappyBeebsMeowMeow" Stonum returns to the podcast to discuss her favorite movie of all time, "Labyrinth" from Jim Henson.
Brandy remembers this film fondly. She was only two when the film came out in 1986, but it had such an impact on her family that her little brother w...
CatBusRuss will be honest. Between Kaiju and Hammer Dracula, this spooky season has not been to scary on "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast". With it being a Rewind Wednesday, our host decided that his and Kodiak Thompson's conversation about Paul W.S. Anderson's greatest feature, "Event Horizon" might set things straight.
And then Russ considered that a new "Venom" feature is being released this week. He felt it was only a...
The King of Monsters demands his spot in spooky month. ThePoeticCritic returns to Ninety For Chill to discuss what is truly scary about kaiju. International politics and Western adaptations.
CatBusRuss gets to learn the history of "The Return of Godzilla", a legacy sequel/reboot of the Toho franchise. The two discuss whether or not the giant monsters are only scary to kids, the under appreciated influence the big guy had on America...
Based on some stalking of ThePoeticCritics's Letterboxd profile, CatBusRuss was able to get on the same page for an impromptu podcast recording in October 2021. What we get is a discussion of which "Dracula" was the better between Hammer's Christopher Lee and the director or "Short Circuits" Frank Langella. They have a conversation of all things Dracula before Francis Ford Coppola gave us the dimmest Jonathan Harker.
CatBusRuss was unable to secure a guest this week, but thankfully has some leads on some experts of spookiness. This left our host relying on his streaming services to warrant tax write offs for I DiG CRAZY FLiCKS. Here he discovered that after the "Twilight Saga", studios are making some wild choices when it comes to vampires on the big screen (43 inches and up).
Netflix had the official dawning of Universal's Dark Universe with "...
NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast is starting Michael Dubois's proposed Gene Wilder trilogy by discussing his favorite movie of all time, "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". At least, it was his favorite coming into these recordings. Can two ultra-left anti-capitalists watch a feature about the Howard Hughes of chocolatiers and leave with the same respect that they had for this feature as children?
After CatBusR...
It is only appropriate that for episode 187, the podcast will be about films from a gangster rap founding father, Ice Cube. He is a man so hard, that you never see him get killed on screen. CatBusRuss verified this on the Cinemorgue Wiki.
This all stems around our host finding "Trespass" from 1992 on iTunes for $4.99. It is a movie that has Cube as fourth billed behind Bill Paxton, Ice Tea, and William Sadler. Not a bad p...
"Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss" always opens with a legal disclaimer taken from "Phantasm: OblIVion" followed by the Angus Scrimm's laugh of the Tall Man. At this year's Chicago Fan Expo, our host tried to open his panel by requesting that someone give their best tribute to the late Scrimm's trademark "Boy!" The audience gave the panel a "what the hell is that?" lo...
Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Darkman, The Rundown, and Sons of Steel (1989). Aside from action and outrageous spectacle, what do these films have in common?
CatBusRuss is tempted to do some research to determine if he has ever had a guest for a Labor Day Weekend episode of "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast", but why dwell on the past? Let's experience some flicks that are new to him, and help warrant writing them off when I...
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