I Dig Crazy Flicks with @CatBusRuss
Bonus: From Blunt to Bacon: "Four Room" and Two Degrees of Bill Nighy (featuring ThePoeticCritic)
2025 had left CatBusRuss joyfully busy this year with "I Dig Crazy Flicks". Busy to the point where he cannot stand the idea that Apple Podcast will claim that the podcast is updated "biweekly". To make sure 2026 starts off well, our host watched one more new (to him) movie and brings back another fun episode from the original "Ninety For Chill dot Com: The Podcast" feed.
The title of this episode seems to suggest an awesome way to start any year. Can you go wrong with a triple-feature that goes from Emily Blunt to Kevin Bacon? Russ has found that he needed all six degrees to make that work out perfectly, but it can be made better with five degrees if you include the 1995 indie-comedy anthology "Four Rooms".
The movies featured in the three degrees of Blunt via two degrees of Bill Nighy are "Wild Target", "Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (starring Ryan Reynolds), and "R.I.P.D."
If you need a quality six degrees of Kevin Bacon that includes "Four Rooms", the movies needed would be Bruce Willis & Emily Blunt in "Looper", Blunt & Nighy in "Wild Target", Nighy & Reynolds in "Det. Pikachu", Reynolds & James McAvoy in "Deadpool 2", and McAvoy & Bacon in "X-Men: First Class".
Pardon if the bad movie had been spoiled. Hopefully an appearance from ThePoeticCritic to talk shop will make up for that giveaway.
Episode 251 - Ninety For Chill X GalaxyCon St. Louis with Nix Eclips & "Lady Terminator"
"I Dig Crazy Flicks's" last stop on its 2025 comic convention tour was the debut of GalaxyCon St. Louis. CatBusRuss is out to further promote the concept that the ideal runtime for feature-length cinema, 90 minutes, with "Ninety For Chill: The Panel". To help him present his thesis, he is joined by Nix Eclips, co-host of the "Cinema Shitshow".
The two podcasters had a challenging first day (day two for the con goers). Russ had to figure out what to do having never received the email with his credentials and figuring out the layout of the America Center. Nix was doing his damndest to work in the panel and get a Bruce Campbell autograph. If their panel goes bad, would they be up to slay at the next day's "1985: Triple-Threat Match".
Fortunately, they ran out of punch and pie. That means there was an audience to argue the pretension of Christopher Nolan with. The two get to reminisce about the "good" times of the nineties where we only had physical media to amuse us. Nix also got to more thoroughly pitch his podcast.
Reminder to Russ. When are you going to take on the challenge of the Shitshow? What movie can they offer that you cannot handle?
To demonstrate he is up for nearly anything, Russ reviews "Lady Terminator". This is a movie that he discovered from Rob Hill's "The Bad Movie Bible" and endorsed by Aaron Reynold's "Bootleg Safari". It is Indonesia's knock off of "The Terminator". The twist, it is a reincarnation of a witch that is obsessed with castration instead of a bodybuilding robot from the future. After that, you get a beat-by-beat remake of the best scenes from James Cameron's best film.
