I appear on “CTV News at 6” with anchor Andria Case to talk about the Netflix Newfoundland creature feature “Below” with Josh Hartnett, the Netflix documentary “Who Is Martin Mull” and the theatrical documentary “Run terry Run” about Terry Fox.
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I sit with NewsTalk 1010 host Jim Richards, sitting in for Deb Hutton on NewsTalk 1010 to talk about a recently uncovered song by John Lennon, a new son for Michael McDonald and I review “The Social Reckoning” and “Run terry Run.”
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I sit in on the CFRA Ottawa morning show with host Bill Carroll to talk about the new movies coming to theatres including the Facebook drama “The Social Reckoning” and the documentary “Run Terry Run.”
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Constructed from almost 100 hours of newly uncovered film, much of it shot during the Marathon of Hope or leftover from John Simpson’s 1981 CBC film “Terry Fox: I Had a Dream,” the new film transports us back to 1980. Like a newly opened time capsule it is locked in time, with no modern flourishes. Director Sean Menard forms a picture of Fox and his compassion and courage from the restored archival material, not from retrospective talking head interviews or the addition of newly shot footage.
It’s a trip backwards in time, one that provides an up close and personal look at Fox. From his exhaustion and humor to his stubbornness and humility, it’s as intimate a portrait as we’re ever likely to get.
The story of the plainspoken but philosophical twenty-two-year-old everyman whose Marathon of Hope mission, to run across Canada on one leg and raise a donation of $1 from every Canadian for cancer research, was cut short by cancer, is tragic, and the film, as it winds down to the conclusion of Fox’s run, is devastating.
Time has put Fox on a pedestal, celebrating him for the hero he was, but this film reminds us that he was also a twenty-two-year-old looking forward to a future which, sadly, he never got to experience.
It’s sad, but it is also a story of a country coming together to support one remarkable, determined young man. In our age of fracture and cynicism, it’s refreshing and necessary to have a movie like “Run Terry Run” provide an firsthand look at what Canadian unity and heroism look like.
“Right now, Canada is going through a real tough period politically,” says a young student in a 1981 archival clip, “and maybe just for a little while, Terry Fox sort of gave us one goal to work towards and one thing to work for as a nation, rather than as 10 provinces.”
Timely words, now and then.
On the Saturday October 10, 2026 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Kristen Joiner. She is a writer, activist, and producer. After two decades in nonprofit and human-rights work, she was asked to co-author the memoir of disability rights leader Judy Heumann—a collaboration that became “Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist,” and later the YA book “Rolling Warrior.”
Judy was blunt from the first meeting: Kristen had spent a career in social change and still had not understood disability as a civil rights issue. That tension—between a nondisabled writer and one of the movement’s central figures—shaped both the book and what followed. Kristen is now an executive producer on the feature film “Being Heumann,” directed by Oscar winner Siân Heder and starring Ruth Madeley as Judy and now playing on theatres.
Then we meet Teagan Johnston. She is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work moves fluidly between music, film, and writing. Born in the Yukon and raised across South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and Canada’s West Coast, she first emerged under the name Little Coyote before stepping forward under her own name with the critically acclaimed 2022 album “Sentimental Ballad”—a raw, piano-driven portrait of heartbreak. Her new album, “Big Time” was written during a period when she had stepped back from music and was questioning her future in the industry after spending her twenties trying to “hit the big time.” Her relationship with music was also reignited through teaching piano to children; watching her students develop their own relationships with music reminded her why she fell in love with it in the first place and gave her a renewed perspective that nothing is set in stone and not everything needs to be taken so seriously.
Then we meet Sean Menard and Darrel Fox of the film Run Terry Run. Terry Fox’s 1980 run across Canada to raise money for cancer research is a well-documented story, familiar to many Canadians. Despite our familiarity with the tragic story, ehe new documentary “Run Terry Run” offers up new footage that packs an emotional wallop. The story of a plainspoken but philosophical twenty-two-year-old everyman whose mission, driven by compassion and courage, was cut short by cancer, is tragic. But it’s refreshing and necessary to have a movie like “Run Terry Run” provide an up close and personal look at what Canadian unity and heroism look like.
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