Fast reviews for busy people! Watch as I review three movies in less time than it takes to do a high five! Have a look as I race against the clock to tell you about the animated adventures of “Dog Man,’ surreal sci-fi of “Companion” and the doc “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story.”
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I join “CTV News Toronto at Five” with anchor Zuraidah Alman to talk about the surreal sci-fi of “Companion,” the animated adventures of “Dog Man’ and the doc “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story.”
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I join the CTV NewsChannel anchor Roger Peterson to talk about the surreal sci-fi of “Companion,” the animated adventures of “Dog Man’ and the doc “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story.”
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I sit in with CKTB morning show host Steph Vivier to have a look at movies in theatres and streaming including the surreal sci-fi of “Companion,” the animated adventures of “Dog Man,’ the doc “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story” and the wrestling flick “Dark Match.”
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I sit in on the CFRA Ottawa morning show with host Bill Carroll to talk about Bill’s story of meeting Liza Minelli, and the new movies coming to theatres including the surreal sci-fi of “Companion,” the animated adventures of “Dog Man,’ the doc “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story” and the wrestling flick “Dark Match.”
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I join CTV Atlantic anchor Todd Battis to talk about the animated adventures of “Dog Man,’ surreal sci-fi of “Companion” and the doc “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story.”
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SYNOPIS: “Dog Man,” a new animated movie featuring the voices of Pete Davidson and Isla Fisher, and now playing in theatres, begins when Petey, the “world’s evilest cat,” blows up Officer Knight and his dog Greg. In a lifesaving operation, Greg’s head is grafted onto Officer Knight’s body. “I tried to get rid of both of you,” says Petey, “but instead I made a supercop.”
CAST: Pete Davidson, Lil Rel Howery, Isla Fisher, Poppy Liu, Stephen Root, Billy Boyd, Ricky Gervais. Written and directed by Peter Hastings.
REVIEW: Like an episode of Short Attention Span Theatre, most of “Dog Man” is so fast paced, it’s like someone is leaning on the fast forward button. To say it is frenetic is an understatement, like saying Count Orlock is not a morning person.
Adapted from the phenomenally successful graphic novels by Dav Pilkey, creator of the “Captain Underpants” books, “Dog Man” values silliness above all else. It never misses an opportunity to crack wise or showcase a visual gag. For instance, archenemy Petey (Pete Davidson) attacks Dog man with the one thing every dog is afraid of, a giant vacuum cleaner. It’s “an approach that sucks,” says “Live Breaking News Live” reporter Seamus (Billy Boyd). When that fails Petey resorts to The Butt Sniffer 2000 and mechanical exploding squirrels.
By the time an entire block of buildings, that fart great green clouds of gas, comes to life, the movie begins to resemble an acid trip for kids.
Subtle, it is not, but in between the goofy jokes are good messages on the importance of family, however you define it, logical or biological.
The style of animation will be familiar to lovers of the books, and there’s a lot of you out there, as the graphic novels have sold 60 million copies globally. Director Peter Hastings calls it “high-end handmade,” and it captures the organic feel of the original book art, which blends “South Park” style, comic book art and Pilkey’s book art. It’s exaggerated, playful and fits the film’s wild tone to a T.
“Dog Man” is a lot. It’s a pedal to the metal experience, filled with childish humor (and the odd gag aimed at parents) but the anarchy is tempered somewhat by heartfelt messages of the importance of doing the right thing, forgiveness and family.
On the Saturday March 16, 2024 edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, a.k.a. Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took, from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. They’ve built upon their famous friendship by working together on podcasts (“The Friendship Onion,” “Moriarty: The Devil’s Game”) and TV (Boyd appeared on Monaghan’s travel show “Wild Things,” and the two just announced a new reality series “Billy and Dom Eat the World”). But now they’re making their stage debut together as a different dynamic duo.
The pair will star in a new production of Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” in Mirvish Productions’ Off-Mirvish series at Toronto’s CAA Theatre until April 6, 2024.
Then, best-selling author Dolly Alderton stops by. She’s a regular columnist for the Sunday Times Style Magazine, and the author of the phenomenally successful memoir “Everything I Know About Love,” which she’s just finished making into a hit BBC TV series; and a bestselling novelist thanks to her barnstorming fiction debut “Ghosts.” Her latest best seller, “Good Material,” a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.
We wrap up with Glass Tiger singer Alan Frew who talks about music, how he keeps his voice in shape and much more.
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