It might be an overstatement to suggest that ThePoeticCritic is miraculous, but she allows for this year (and this incarnation) of "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast" to conclude the only way CatBusRuss would allow it. That is with a guest. This was a near last minute arrangement, so the two siblings will not be chatting about a movie. They will be reviewing their experiences from this year in cinema, but with our host's work situation, his big sister wanted to bring in a little Christmas right now.

The two do investigate what makes a holiday picture. Does it need to be released (or intended to be released) around the season? How Christmassy does it have to be? Has Shane Black actually wrote a genuine Xmas movie? Are all Oscar-bait features representative of the holiday spirit as "Mystery Science Theater 3000" suggests?

As for the best experiences this year, ThePoeticCritic does not offer too many opinions, but helps guide Russ in coming to a decision in the three feature race of "Coraline (09)", "A Boy and His Dog (1975)", and "Shredder Orpheus (1990)". Maybe CatBus will get caught up on 2024's actual movies once he can step away from the retail hell that might have driven his cynicism. Buy batteries before the kids open the damn gifts.

Ninety for Chill 200 will drop on Monday, December 23, 2024. Thanks for all the support.

ThePoeticCritic is back and focused to start spreading that Christmas cheer. She fondly looks back on the holiday offerings that bring joy to the world indiscriminately while CatBusRuss focuses on the cynical side of the season with films like Dennis Leary in "The Ref" and Bill Goldberg in "Santa's Slay". What they can agree on is that their should be no seasonal restrictions on when we can watch "Ernest Saves Christmas".

If Jesus gets Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a Merry Mark L Lester Xmas needs two nights...or podcast episodes.

Michael Dubois makes his NinetyForChill debut as a contributor and we tackle Mark L. Lester's 1985 action classic, "Commando". This is the feature that was created give some humanity to Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Michael thinks it maybe the Governator as his most wooden. Perhaps he should have been cast as a cooler at a Missourian bar.

CatBusRuss is still looking for a guest for "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast 200!". Until then, it will be a tribute to one of the directors who called for the establishment of the NC-17 rating who aspires to be the next Roger Corman, Mark L. Lester.

Gregory Carl had an aspiration to release a Jean-Claude Van Damme & Rob Van Dam podcast, so he was more than welcomed to talk action movies on this pod. Russ did not want to tread too much on his expertise, so the two talked about what our host considers to be the greatest DVD two-pack, "Bloodsport" and Lester's "Showdown in Little Tokyo", the feature that inspired the CatBus's annual trip to Northwestern's B-Fest.

It is the time of #SpotifyWrapped, so it seems appropriate to do a best of the year list for Ninety For Chill: The Podcast. But that is something CatBusRuss would like to save for Episode 200.

Spotify's annual review of listening habits actually inspired our host to look back to the past. He failed to add his 2021 and 2022 "Top Songs Lists" to his library. That is something he will not allow to occur on his primary podcast feed. It seems a valid means of justifying this trip down memory lane as he offers his best sub-100-minute cinema discoveries from the first two years of the podcast.

On Christmas 2021, ThePoeticCritic spent an hour with her little brother to help comprise a list of NinetyForChill's best discoveries of 2021. Her movie research is not as narrow as this podcast's host, but she chooses five movies that will make the list. It is up to CatBusRuss to determine which five of the remaining 15 films will make for a well balanced countdown.

At the end of 2022, ThePoeticCritic gives us some input on what some of the best movies CatBusRuss found in 2022. Russ counts down his top 10 favorite finds from this year. To be thorough, the year's collection of Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy's Trash Feature Reviews is concluded with "2020 Texas Gladiators". And how can 2022's top 10 list be complete without a David Cronenberg movie? "Crash" and "Crimes of the Future" were last minute watches during Russ's six-day stint of holiday retail shifts.

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 ruined these unique ideas come the 1980s.

Russ also discovered the difficulties of finding movies before 1980 on major streaming platforms. He found the offerings on Netflix and Paramount+ to be quite poor. Fortunately, Shudder is aware of what a classic horror feature is and Prime Video is a video library with fewer rental fees. The second half of this seventies marathon brings the full-frontal nudity with David Carradine's failed spiritual successor to "Death Race 2000", "Death Sport", and the steamy, lesbian-vampire classic "Daughters of Darkness".

The influence of the 1971 vampire film can still be felt on vampire cinema 50 years later. This inspired our host to revisit his review for the queer-vampire, indie-horror comedy, "Bit" to cap off this episode.

CatBus is still looking for a guest for the 200th episode of "Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss". Reach out to him on Bluesky @catbusruss.bsky.social.

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 himself when it comes to the appropriate seasonal vibes.

ThePoeticCritic showed him the best use of “The Muppets” since “Muppet Vision”, "A Muppets Christmas: Letter to Santa". To make sure the CatBus had about 100 minutes of stuff to talk about, the Xmas-themed “Sailor Moon S: The Movie” completed this double feature.

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 =^_^=