Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss Cat Bus Russ

We return to the toughest part of podcast production for Ally Higgins. What movies could she provide "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast" that have titles which start with some of the least useful letters in "Scrabble", X, Y, and Z?

CatBusRuss had to go to TCM to provide us with a feature to represent the 24th letter of the English alphabet with "The X from Outer Space". A Japanese film about a Kaiju that may have served as inspiration for the likes of "Species", "Alien", and "Life" was definitely worth a watch.

As for the co-main event of the sobriety test, our host was enthralled by "You're Next". It is the, "What would Kevin McCallister be like when he grew up?" and people still tried to invade his home movie.

This episode concludes with "Nocturne", a Z-budget horror feature. It may have been the best Russ saw that the "Ally's Accessories Shop of Etsy's Trash Feature Revue" had to offer, but it was by no means ready for "Lord Blood-Rah" or "Svengoolie".

CatBusRuss and Collateral Cinema's Beau Maddox have been interacting with each other since our host joined Bluesky. Over the past week, they finally have found a feature that the two felt good about collaborating on. "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss" has covered Paul WS Anderson's "Mortal Kombat" before, but that was to pay tribute to French action star Christopher Lambert. Beau and Russ will take a look at this beloved feature from all angles. The effects that still hold up, the less is more style of direction, and the charm of special effects that do not hold up after 4K TV's came into existence.

Does this lead to the conclusion that the nineties, with hindsight, were a good time for video game film adaptations? Is Hollywood still underutilizing Cary-Hiroyuki Togawa and Linden Ashby? Should this script been delivered to John Carpenter?

We discover the two have their polarizing opinions of the work of Tom Green, so we quickly learn that conversational fireworks maybe a possibility. Perhaps it is that heat that lead to the pod's technical difficulties and not Beau's phone overheating. Russ hopes that throwing in his review of Sylvester Stallone's "Escape Plan: The Extractors" will be an adequate apology for those issues.

"Frankenstein (2015)", "The New Mutants", "Johnny Handsome", "The Order (2001)", and "The Colony (2013)". These are under appreciated morsels found in the troughs that are used video stores. "Twilight" is the evening's third shot of Jeppson's Malort.

When you go to a second hand movie/video game store, you have to be prepared to settle. If it is a good film or electronic masterpiece, why would it be resold? The best stuff is typically too pricey if it is even available. To thrive in this environment, you need to be like a raccoon. It all may look like trash, but with so much stuff, some of it has to be tasty.

This is how "Ally's Accessories Shop of Etsy's Trash Feature Revue" became part of "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast". CatBusRuss's best friend in the East Central Illinois, Ally Higgins wanted to help out the show when it was starting up. Her idea, find weird under 100-minute to provide the podcast with content. Being more than friends at one point, she knows our host's pain threshold, so surely he could find fried gold amongst the cinematic rot.

And this is why ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is the top trivia team in Downstate Illinois. James Slunder comes to the rescue to make sure CatBusRuss does the month of Ani-May right. The team's self-proclaimed anime expert suggested our host watch the prequel to the "Jujutsu Kaisen" television series, the 2021 motion picture "Jujutsu Kaisen 0".

The result of this suggestion is a clash between generations of fandom. We use the term self-proclaimed expert to describe James because he was not around during the days of Streamline Pictures/Central Park Media and multicolored VHS tapes. Our host feels there has to be something from his tape collecting days that gives him the edge when it comes to being an otaku.

Anime has become a lot brighter and more colorful, and CatBus may sound like an old man shouting at clouds because it is too busy for it to have that nineties, Suncoast charm. He also did not watch many magical high school themed cartoons.

Fortunately, JJK0 (James says that is what the cool kids call it.) is "Harry Potter" on steroids. Who needs Quidditch when you wield a cursed katana alongside a giant, anthropomorphic Panda and a classmate whose voice is cursed to the point that he can only safely speak in rice ball ingredients. And of course you have some "will they, won't they" relationship to tease some tension. This is how they needed to sell the third "Fantastic Beast" flick.

Ninety For Chill's Guide to Shudder, "The Mudshow's" Gregory Gathmann needed five beers and someone to chat about Phil Tippett's magnum opus "Mad God", so he came to CatBusRuss. The two were impressed with this dialogue-free, stop-motion, animated feature that took 30 years to make, but what does it mean? Is it good cinema or merely superb visual art? These two podcasters try to make sense of this feature and perhaps even their lives.

CatBusRuss thought about calling the episode “Celebrating Roger Corman-I-May”, but then ThePoeticCritic corrected him by explaining he had left his studio, New World Pictures, by the time they first translated “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”. But if Roger Corman was not the producing legend who founded that distributor and AIP, would we even have anime in the States? Those cheap Streamline Pictures dubs had to find inspiration somewhere. Our host and his big sister talk about the influence that Corman had on independent cinema and how that led to the careers of at least two auteurs with Best Director Oscars (Ron Howard and James Cameron). With his recent passing, the two also discuss how cinema will now fair without the continuation of the opportunities he was providing to young filmmakers. Is “Resist the Disney machine” is all they can offer?