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ThePoeticCritic graces NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast again with her thoughts on how the Academy Awards will either piss off #FilmTwitter or just be mocked for its failure to connect with the Marvel-loving loud mouths of Millennials and Gen Z. So Cool Movies Darth offers up suggestions on how to remedy this while setting up a lot of "The Simpsons" references to display the futility of making changes to the Oscars.

Cool Movies Darth and Michael Dubois resume their conversation about one of the most impactful children features in their lives, "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". The two discuss the charms of Gene Wilder that Johnny Depp could only wish for, and how they may allow a real megalomaniacal chocolatier to get away with the crimes against humanity that Roald Dahl's most famous character commits.

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 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?

With "Showdown in Little Tokyo" sharing the marquee at the Norris University Center at Northwestern University, Cool Movies Darth was obligated to attempt to make it through the 24-hour, B-movie marathon that is B-Fest. He spent all 24 hours in the McCormick Auditorium, but did he watch all the movies? Sometimes, there are things so bad, you just need to shut the brain off.

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 Cool Movies Darth has found were helmed by this Canuck composer. Here, CM Darth offers his thoughts on three classics from the master of body horror: "A History of Violence", "Rabid", and "Naked Lunch.

If there is a master of spotting subtle horror on Shudder, it is Gregory Carl. This week he suggested a film that has a horror-worthy premise with "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" featuring a 14 year-old Jodie Foster. It is a feature that turns the seemingly defenseless adolescent premise on its head while maintaining all that 1970s creepiness in all its glory.

If you remove the credits for "Ghostbusters (1984)", the runtime is only 36 seconds too long to qualify for NinetyForChill.com's parameters. Cool Movies Darth is a fan of "Solo: A Star Wars Story", so like Han, he chose to round the runtime down to the lower parsec. This allows him to address the latest film in the paranormal comedy franchise, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife".

After David Cronenberg has presented Cool Movies Darth with the best sub 100-minute discoveries for the past two years on NinetyForChill.com, the podcast feels it is imperative to remind cinephiles around the world how important the works of Stuart Gordon are. Be it Lovecraftian adaptations like "Dagon" and "Castle Freak" to charming low-budget sci-fi like "Robot Jox", there maybe no greater genre director than this late Chicago playwright turn auteur. 

Michael Dubois makes his return to the podcast to further express his admiration for Samara Weaving with a discussion about 2019's action satire, "Ready or Not". Cool Movies Darth goes into this thinking the film was a step down from the quality of "Bill and Ted Face the Music", but only a baby step. Is Samara the next Uma Thurman? We will find that out.

Gregory Carl maybe late for Christmas, but comes strong by offering Cool Movies Darth this movie suggestion. What if instead of the Wet Bandits, Kevin was stalked by Father Christmas? And how about we give Macaulay Culkin a marvelous mullet? What you get is the 1989's French feature "Deadly Games", the plagiarism lawsuit against "Home Alone" that never materialized.