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This week, The Naughty and Nice Lists for 2021!
“Goodbye 2021. Hello 2022. Another weird year in the books. I got asked two questions over and over this year. Every day someone asks me, “May I see your vaccine passport?” Every other day someone asks, ‘Do you think movies theatres will ever go back to normal?’”
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The tributes for Jean-Marc Vallée poured in after the director of “Big Little Lies,” “C.R.A.Z.Y.”, “Dallas Buyers Club,” “The Young Victoria,” “Café de Flore” and “Demolition” was found dead at age 58.
Richard recalls a memorable, masked interview with the late director Jean-Marc Vallée.
Saddened to hear the news of Jean-Marc Vallée’s passing. He was a unique filmmaker and a singular person. Interviewed him many times, including this time, where he wore a mask during the first ten minutes or so. If I remember correctly, he was making a point about the director masking his own personality in support of the material. Or something like that. Whatever his point, he was an entertainer who knew how to use striking images to tell his stories.
Richard joins CTV NewsChannel anchor Lois Lee to talk about the untimely passing of Jean-Marc Vallée the Emmy winning Quebec director of the small screen hit “Big Little Lies” and big screen offerings like “C.R.A.Z.Y.”, “Dallas Buyers Club,” “The Young Victoria,” “Café de Flore” and “Demolition.”
Richard joins CTV NewsChannel and anchor Lois Lee to have a look at new movies coming to VOD, streaming services and theatres including the virtual reality of “The Martrix Resurrection,” the coming of age dramedy “Licorice Pizza” and Denzel Washington in “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and the jukebox musical “Sing 2.”
Richard sits in on the CFRA Ottawa morning show with guest host Matt Harris to talk the new movies coming to theatres, VOD and streaming services including the virtual reality of “The Martrix Resurrection,” the coming of age dramedy “Licorice Pizza” and Denzel Washington in “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and the jukebox musical “Sing 2.”
Richard appears on the December 24, 2021 edition of the Totally Useless Information podcast to celebrate Christmas and share some seasonal trivia. Stop by! Yule love it!
Some info on the podcast: Listen, laugh & learn: this is the premise of The Totally Useless Information podcast, created by Nick Maiorano and Roy Locascio. The two hosts scour the internet every week and bob and weave their way through the morass of fake facts in search of real – but totally useless – information that you thought you’d never need to know. The information can get so wildly ridiculous and intriguing that it has attracted audiences in more than 50 countries which have been tuning in and coming back again and again.
Richard writes about how technology and focus can aid neurodiverse drivers.
“I know that saying that learning I’m neurodivergent helped my driving is a bit of an odd claim,” said Saira K. Zuberi, “but it is true in that it made me examine the issues that I have as a driver/decision-maker, and in the way I move, how my body and brain connect, or how I communicate non-verbally…” Read the whole thing HERE!
Can Richard Crouse review three movies in just thirty seconds? Have a look as he races against the clock to tell you about the Neo’s return to virtual reality in “The Matrix: Resurrections,” the coming of age dramedy “Licorice Pizza” and Denzel Washington in “The Tragedy of Macbeth” in less time than it takes to buy a pack of Twizzlers.
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