I’ll be reviewing three movies this week, everything from a musical maniac and the birth of a comedy institution to a grandmother with a story of her childhood.
In “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the new sorta-kind musical staring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, and now playing in theatres, failed comedian Arthur Fleck is incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that’s always been inside him.
In “Saturday Night,” a new show business biography now playing in theatres, tensions run high as producer Lorne Michaels and a not ready for prime time troupe of young comedians and writers prepare for the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 11, 1975.
In “White Bird,” a new World War II family drama, now playing on theatres, a youngster named Julian is visited by his grandmother, played by Helen Mirren, and is transformed by the story of her attempts to escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
On the Saturday October 5, 2024 edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Zac Hanson, drummer for the 3x Grammy® Award-nominated, multi-Platinum pop-rock trio, Hanson. The band are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark third album “Underneath” with a new expanded version of the album and a North American tour.
The, later in the show we’ll meet author Jennifer Whiteford. She writes regularly for Razorcake, a long-standing punk publication and was also a founding member of the “all girl, all rock” band Sophomore Level Psychology. With those rock ‘n roll days behind her, she says she now mostly stays home and reads and writes novels like her new one, “Make Me a Mixtape.” In the book a guarded punk-rocker-turned-barista meets a big-hearted sound tech who charms his way into her life and helps her revisit her musical past in this truly charming, cozy romance.
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Each week on the nationally syndicated Richard Crouse Show, Canada’s most recognized movie critic brings together some of the most interesting and opinionated people from the movies, television and music to put a fresh spin on news from the world of lifestyle and pop-culture. Tune into this show to hear in-depth interviews with actors and directors, to find out what’s going on behind the scenes of your favourite shows and movies and get a new take on current trends. Recent guests include Chris Pratt, Elvis Costello, Baz Luhrmann, Martin Freeman, David Cronenberg, Mayim Bialik, The Kids in the Hall and many more!
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I appear on “CTV News at 11:30” with anchor Andria Case to talk about the best movies and television to watch this weekend, including the coming-of-age movie “My Old Ass” in theatres, the reboot of “Matlock” with Kathy Bates on Paramount+ and “The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal” on Amazon Prime.
On the Saturday September 28, 2024 episode of The Richard Crouse Show we get to know Mike Downie, director of “The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal,” the definitive four-part documentary series about the band who, as the programmers of TIFF noted earlier this year, “went on to make music that defined Canada to the world and, more importantly, Canada to Canadians.”
The four-hour Amazon Prime docuseries combines never-before-seen archival footage with new interviews with the band, family, friends, and famous fans including Will Arnett, Dan Aykroyd, Jay Baruchel and Geddy Lee, to create a joyful and moving look at The Tragically Hip, their music and the personal tragedies that defined the band.
It’s the story of a band of brothers, produced and directed by Mike Downie, brother of the band’s frontperson Gord Downie.
Then, we meet Maisy Stella and Megan Park, the star and director respectively of “My Old Ass,” a wonderful coming-of-age story about a free-spirited teen whose birthday mushroom trip brings her face-to-face with her 39-year-old self, played by Aubrey Plaza, who delivers some choice advice and words of warning that transform her relationships with her family and friends.
Finally, Divesh Subaskaran stops by. He’s the star of “Life of Pi” currently on stage at the CAA Ed Mirvish theatre in Toronto. Based on the best-selling novel, this story of adventure and discovery is an epic journey about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger. We’ll find out what it is like to do this demanding show night after night and why his acting teacher at RADA—the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts—told him he should behave like a rockstar.
Each week on the nationally syndicated Richard Crouse Show, Canada’s most recognized movie critic brings together some of the most interesting and opinionated people from the movies, television and music to put a fresh spin on news from the world of lifestyle and pop-culture. Tune into this show to hear in-depth interviews with actors and directors, to find out what’s going on behind the scenes of your favourite shows and movies and get a new take on current trends. Recent guests include Chris Pratt, Elvis Costello, Baz Luhrmann, Martin Freeman, David Cronenberg, Mayim Bialik, The Kids in the Hall and many more!
All iHeartRadio Canada stations are available across Canada via live stream on iHeartRadio.caand the iHeartRadio Canada app. iHeartRadio Canada stations are also connected through Alexa, Siri, and Google Home smart speakers.
I join CTV News Toronto at 11:30 anchor Natalie Johnson to have a look at the animated “The Wild Robot,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” and the drama “A Different Man.”
I appear in a CTV National News report by Paul Hollingsworth on the life anbd legacy of ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Downton Abbey’ actress Maggie Smith who has died at the age of 89.
I sit in with hosts Jim Richards and Deb Hutton on NewsTalk 1010 to play the game “Did Richard Crouse Like This?” This week we talk about the animated “The Wild Robot,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” and the drama “A Different Man.”
I join CP24 to have a look at the animated “The Wild Robot,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” the drama “A Different Man” and the coming of age story “My Old Ass.”
I’ll be reviewing three movies this week, everything from a musical maniac and the birth of a comedy institution to a grandmother with a story of her childhood.
