Read Richard's Metro interview with W.E. star Andrea Riseborough! "Actress Andrea Riseborough has no time to be intimidated by co-workers, even when they are world-famous icons. “Making a movie is no small feat,” she says, “and there is so little time and you can enter into something being paralyzed by fear or you can just experience it..." Read the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Q&A from the Canadian premier of "The Woman in Black" with star Daniel Radcliffe! They discuss the effect the movie has on audiences, why he chose this as his first post-Potter project and take questions from the audience! Watch the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "The Woman in Black" star Daniel Radcliffe! He discusses how to deal with rabid fans and how he is getting better as an actor everyday! “As I said to you, when I’m at home, smoking a cigarette and it’s cold and I’m in my Canada Goose jacket eating half a pizza, those are the moments you have to take a picture of yourself and play it to yourself when you are on the red carpet and go, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’re not all that, really."" Read the whole thing here!

Watch Richard with Canada AM hosts Beverly Thompson and Marci Ien chat about the Oscar nominations! Will "The Artist" win Best Picture? Why wasn't Uggie nominated? How many times has Meryl Streep been nominated? Who was left out?  Find out here!

Watch Richard wrap up the Golden Globes with Beverly Thompson on Canada AM! Find out his favorite moments and whether or not "The Artist" deserved to win! Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary interview with "Coriolanus" director and star Ralph Fiennes! Based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, the film is an adaptation of one of Shakespeare's lesser known works. Watch the interview here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary interview with "Coriolanus" star Brian Cox! "Coriolanus" is about a banished hero of Rome who allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city. Watch the whole thing here!

Read Richard's interview with "A Dangerous Method" director David Cronenberg! "“It’s sort of a love story,” he says. “It really is a triangle, but it has so much other stuff going on. I don’t even feel the need, myself, to characterize it, because to me that is a marketing problem, not a creative problem.” The movie vividly recreates Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), the birth of psychoanalysis and the wedge a patient-turned-muse-turned-psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) drove between the two men. “It’s a fantastic story,” says Cronenerg, “this sort of intellectual ménage à trois...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "A Dangerous Method" star Keira Knightley! "Since her 2002 breakout performance in Bend it Like Beckham, Keira Knightley has starred in 18 films, but it was only recently she realized something about her acting process. “I suffer very badly from stage fright,” she says. “I didn’t find it out until I had actually been on stage that that’s what the feeling was..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "The Iron Lady" screenwriter Abi Morgan! "Margaret Thatcher, the longest reigning British Prime Minister of the 20th Century, remains a polarizing figure even though she hasn’t held office since 1990. She’s a hero to some: Gloucester City Council leader Paul James calls her “the best prime minister there’s been.” But a villain to others: “She made all manner of cuts society is still recovering from,” says Steve Lydon, branch secretary of Stroud Labour Party..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Pariah star Kim Wayans! "The new drama Pariah isn’t exactly a laugh-a-minute. A gritty look at a dysfunctional family and a daughter’s desire to be accepted, it’s a heavy, timely story. But one of its stars wants you to know it’s not without its lighter moments. And Kim Wayans knows funny. She starred alongside her brothers Keenen, Ivory and Damon on the legendary In Living Color television show and once played a character named Ms. Dontwannabebothered in Dance Flick..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on going mano-a-mano with Mephistopheles in the movies! "The loopiest of devil hunters must be Father Pierre Barre (Michael Gothard) from the Ken Russell film The Devils. He is a corrupt and despicable holy man who convinces a group of terrified nuns to fake a mass possession with the words, “You will scream! You will blaspheme!” His other questionable methods include “forcible colonic irrigation” with holy water and torture..." Read the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary conversation with Tyrannosaur director Paddy Considine at the Toronto Film Festival 2011! Here's some info on the film! "The story of Joseph (Peter Mullen), a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah (Olivia Colman), a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM list of the Best Moments from the Movies of 2011! "Best Animal Appearance: Cosmo, the nine-year-old Jack Russell terrier in “Beginners”; cutest film dog since Benji, most talented since Rin Tin Tin. Runner up? Rosie the 9000-pound pachyderm who out-acted Robert Pattinson in “Water for Elephants...” Watch the whole thing here!

It's the End of the World As We Know It! According to the Mayan Calendar the clock is ticking down to doomsday! To prepare the Reel Guys took to the pages of Metro to have a look at the best end-of-the-world movies! "Mark, there are so many end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it movies out there it’s hard to narrow it down, but I’ll start our look at the end with Last Night. It’s a dramedy about how people react in the hours before the destruction of the planet. My favourite part has David Cronenberg, in a rare appearance in front of the camera, as a utility company boss spending his final moments calling all his clients to offer thanks for their business..." Read the whole thing here!

Also... What would you do on your last day before the apocalypse? Find out what Jamie Bell told Richard here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with The Adventures of Tintin star Jamie Bell! "Legend has it that when Steven Spielberg offered Jamie Bell the lead role in The Adventures of Tintin, the actor looked the Hollywood legend in the eye and said, “I’ll have to think about it.” “What is true is that he said, ‘If you were to be Tintin it would be about five years of your life. Are you comfortable with that?’ To me, as a 16-year-old, five years was a really long time. [He’s 24 now.] So I didn’t want to be the naïve actor and say, ‘OK, I’m fine with that. I wanted to really consider it. I don’t even think I said I’d think about it, I just didn’t give a definitive answer..." Read the whole thing here!

Are movies dead? That's the question CTV National News asked Richard and a number of others in this piece on the low box office in December. Find out what everyone had to say here!

Movies for people who love Christmas... some for those who don't! Watch Richard chat with News Channel hosts Dan Matheson and Jacqueline Milczarek! They talk about It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas carol and others you might expect, but Annie Hall? Click here to see why it's on Richard's Christmas list!

Read Richard's Metro article on the TIFF Top Ten! "Now that Santa’s naughty and nice list has been put away for another year, it’s time to have a look at another list, Canada's Top 10, the Toronto International Film Festival's annual tally of the best Canadian features. In alphabetical order, here are the winners as chosen by a panel of industry experts..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Thom Ernst's blog about working with Richard! "I like Richard Crouse. Who doesn't? He's smart, incredibly approachable, easy to spot, and has as much passion as any of us who love film and have a job where we get to share that passion.  Case in point:  A few years back,  Richard joined me to take part in the Parry Sound Student film festival.  To say it was a modest event with modest attendance is being anything but modest.  Still, Richard gave everything in a wonderfully light and impromptu Q&A and later in an awards ceremony..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Shinan Govani's column in the National Post about Richard's TIFF Bell Lightbox Q&A with "The Devil Wears Prada" director David Frankel! "Of course, Mr. Frankel wasn't going anywhere without giving some poop on his other, muchcrowd-pleasing flick Marley & Me. Movie-holic Richard Crouse, who had the director in the hot seat this eve, made sure to ask him about the tale of doggy martyrdom. This much was discerned: a) Frankel thinks Jen Aniston is an "underrated actress" who has unsung dramatic chops, and b) the real-life Marley portrayer is alive and well and living semiretired in Venice, Calif. (Phew!)..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard Metro article on the worst New Year's Eves ever with the cast of Garry Marshall's latest film! "The cast of the new Garry Marshall film, New Year’s Eve, had a great time making the movie, but haven’t always had the best time on December 31st. Josh Duhamel says the key to enjoying the night is keeping “expectations low” and leaving by 10:30 p.m...": Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro article on Robert Downey Jr., star of "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows"! "Robert Downey Jr. knows how to work a room. I notice this while at the swank-a-delic Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills for a press conference to celebrate the release of Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows. It’s a packed panel, including co-stars Noomi Rapace (the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) and Jared Harris, mega producer Joel Silver and Downey’s business and life partner Susan. Between them there are untold Oscar nominations and hundreds of millions in box office returns, but that doesn’t mean squat when Downey enters and takes centre stage..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's interview with "Melancholia" star Kiefer Sutherland! "When I compliment Sutherland on his glasses, a pair of retro-looking heavy frames, his passion flares. “In the 30’s Roosevelt made a deal between Moscot and the federal government,” he says. “Anybody who needed glasses during the great depression got these glasses for free. They made millions of them. So anyone who says there was never a National Healthcare in the States is a liar.  That was the first national healthcare program where they provided glasses for free for the entire country...” Read the whole thing here! 

Read Richard's interview with "My Week with Marilyn" director Simon Curtis! "Simon Curtis knew something special was happening on the set of My Week with Marilyn. The movie, about the tumultuous days Marilyn Monroe spent in England making The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, has been generating considerable Oscar buzz for its star Michelle Williams. “I did think, ‘My goodness, she’s doing something really wonderful,’” he says..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "Sleeping Beauty" director Julia Leigh! "Sleep. Those hours at night when we are at our most vulnerable, are explored in first-time Australian director Julia Leigh’s film Sleeping Beauty. The inspiration for the disturbing story about a university student, played by Sucker Punch’s Emily Browning, who earns a living allowing herself to be anesthetized and left in the company of wealthy clients, is murky, according to Leigh..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "The Eye of the Storm" star Geoffrey Rush! "In conversation, Geoffrey Rush is emphatic. His melodic basso voice has authority to spare, but add to that his habit of using triplets to highlight his conversational points and you have someone who knows how to play to an audience. He says Patrick White, the author of the novel Eye of the Storm, on which his new film is based, has a “curmudgeonly, acerbic, mordant” wit. He states co-star Judy Davis “writhes and seethes and stumbles” in comedic discomfort throughout much of the movie..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "Shame" screenwriter Abi Morgan! “It has just been a very, very intense year,” says screenwriter Abi Morgan. In addition to the release of Shame this week, her name also appears on the scripts for the new Meryl Streep film The Iron Lady and six episodes of the British television series The Hour. “I just keep my head down and write,” she says. “The hardest thing for a writer is if you don’t have anyone with a deadline waiting for you..." Read the whole thing here!

Find out why Richard thinks the "Snooki Effect" is as relevant as the "James Dean Effect." "3,000 studies? My goodness, that’s a lot of lab rats watching Jersey Shore. No wonder the ratings were so high for the first couple of years." Read the whole thing here!

Host Todd Van Allen welcomes Richard as a guest on his podcast Comedy Above the Pub. They go off script on everything from this summer in movies, the Toronto Film Festival and more! Already into its second season, the Comedy Above the Pub podcast has seen such acts as Henry Rollins, Michael Showalter, Steve Hofstetter, Anthony Jeselnik, the return of Kevin Brauch, and many many others. Listen to the whole thing here!

Check out Richard's Metro interview with "Happy Feet Two" director George Miller! "“One thing I am drawn to unconsciously is the hero myth,” says director George Miller. Looking over his resumé it’s easy to see what he means. His creations, like Mad Max, who ruled a dystopian Australian landscape from the driver’s seat of a Ford Falcon XB Coupe and Babe, the king of the barnyard, are agents of change in their own worlds..." Read the whole thing here!

The Twilight Saga Reviewed! Welcome back to the Twilight zone! Soon Edward and Bella will wed, have vampire babies and Jacob will pout and take off his shirt in the second-to-last entry in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn! Need a refresher? Read Richard's reviews of the first three movies here!

Also! Watch Richard's interview with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson here!

More! Watch Richard's interviews with Eclipse stars Ashley Greene and Xavier Samuel! 

Even More! Watch Richard's interviews with Robert Pattinson (on Remember Me) and Rachelle Lefevre!

Read Less Lee Moore's Popshifter article on Richard's Q&A with genre legend Lance Henriksen!"When emcee Richard Crouse starts asking questions, we hear Henriksen’s unmistakable, deep, gravelly voice and there is no doubt that the man before us is the same who has inhabited so many iconic, and frequently chilling, characters: Bishop in Aliens, Ed Harley in Pumpkinhead, and Frank Black in the much-cherished TV series Millennium..." Read the whole thing at Popshifter!

Watch Richard's interviews with "The Skin I Live In" stars Antonio Banderas and Elena Ayana from the 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival! Here's some info on the film! "From director Pedro Almodóvar come a story about a brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession."

Check out Richard's interview with The Way star Martin Sheen! "Tree of Life director Terrence Malick has had an enormous impact on actor Martin Sheen’s life.
“He’s one of the great, great people,” says Sheen, “and one of the most mysterious, wonderful characters.” Professionally, the director gave Sheen the role that broke him out of the episodic television grind and made him a movie star. As Kit Carruthers in Badlands, Sheen won raves and was set upon a career path that would see him star in Apocalypse Now and win a collection of Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards for playing President Bartlet on The West Wing..." Read the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's exclusive Canada AM first-look at the Grace Kelly: From Movie Star to Princess exhibit at the Bell TIFF Lightbox! Here's the event profile from TIFF: "TIFF Bell Lightbox is bringing the iconic movie star's wardrobe and films to town in a new exhibit about her glamourous life. The show, which draws from The Grace Kelly Years exhibit in Monaco and the Grace Kelly: Style Icon show in London, will have gowns, artifacts and films from the legendary film star. More info here!

Here's Richard's Red Carpet Diary conversation with director Joel Schumacher about his new film "Trespass" at the Toronto Film Festival 2011. The movie takes place almost entirely inside the multimillion-dollar home of Kyle and Sarah Miller (Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman). He's a hotshot real estate agent with a secret; she's a bored Stepford wife. The suburban ennui of their lives is shattered by a home invasion. When Kyle tries to negotiate with the baddies the situation escalates until the lives of everyone are at stake. Watch the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Melancholia star Alexander Skarsgård! “In Sweden you really feel how it changes, and there’s something about that I love. In a weird way you feel how time is moving forward. Sometimes in California I wake up and I don’t know if it is February or June. In Sweden it is so brutal; nature, how it dies and then the rebirth. That kind of cycle. I do miss it. But the grass is always greener because when I’m in Sweden for a winter and it is five months of darkness I’m like, ‘Oh man! Where’s the sun? I wish I was in California.’ So I’m always complaining I guess." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on Clint Eastwood's star power! "The weight shifts in the room, as though Clint’s star power has a gravitational pull all its own. At 81, he’s more weathered than when he made Dirty Harry a household name, but it is impossible to look at him and not have memories of “Go ahead, make my day...” or the Man with No Name character awakened, and everyone at the party feels it..." Read the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's interviews with "The Skin I Live In" stars Antonio Banderas and Elena Ayana from the 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival! Here's some info on the film! "From director Pedro Almodóvar come a story about a brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession."

Wondering what to rent for Halloween?

Watch Richard talk about the scariest movies ever made with CTV News Channel hosts Dan Matheson and Jacqueline Milczarek. Here's some info! From Boris Karloff's 'Frankenstein' to 'The Exorcist,' movie critic Richard Crouse lists his top five horror films. He says part of the fun of seeing horror movies is listening to the audience's reaction in the movie theatre.

 Watch the whole thing here!

Check out Richard's interview with Footloose 2011 stars Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald. “Craig had to tell me when I would over-dance,” says Hough. “He’d say, ‘Julianne, tone down the hairography,’ when I’d start whipping my head around." Listen to the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Footloose 2011 stars Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald. "The names Ren and Ariel are touchstones for a generation. In the teen classic Footloose, big city boy Ren (Kevin Bacon) romanced Ariel (Lori Singer) and brought the boogie back to the small town of Bomont, Georgia. Despite bad reviews, the story of teen rebellion and two-stepping struck a chord with audiences who made it one of the biggest hits of 1984..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "Real Steel" star Hugh Jackman! "Success in school, he says, came because of his work ethic, a trait he picked up from his father.
“He never took one day off in his life,” he says. “Now, he had five kids he was bringing up on his own. If anyone deserved a day off it was my old man, but he never did. I learned that from him. “There’s always that feeling of, ‘I have to work harder than everybody else. I’m not born Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I’ve got to just work harder and I’m prepared to do it..." Read the whole thing here! 

"A scheduled 10 minute interview stretches into 35 minutes as the three-time Oscar nominee chats amiably about the movies he thinks will eventually become classics — “the poetic ones that don’t make as much sense” — on artistic vision — “it’s a product of interior emotion” — the meaning of the Kubrick film 2001 — “it’s a baptism!” — and, of course, his new movie..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Mike Clattenberg, director of Afghan Luke! “The first gigantic challenge was to shoot a film that is 90 per cent exteriors, set in Afghanistan, in Canada during the rainy season,” says Clattenberg. “We eventually found Ashcroft and Cache Creek, British Columbia, about five hours from Vancouver.” The setting mimicked Afghanistan’s rugged, mountainous terrain so much the film’s technical advisor Wafi Gran gave it the thumbs up. “He said the next time he pines for Afghanistan he’s just going to go there and hang out. He really thought that it looked like his home town...” Read the whole thing here! Read Richard's Metro review of the movie here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Dolphin Tale star Harry Connick Jr! "Harry Connick Jr. says working with his co-star everyday was “really incredible.” He’s not talking about Morgan Freeman or Ashley Judd, although he enjoyed spending time on set with them. No, he’s referring to Winter, the titular star of his new film Dolphin’s Tale. Winter is the real-life inspiration of the story of a bottlenose dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap. Rescued and rehabilitated by the folks at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, the giant marine mammal was equipped with a prosthetic tail that allows it to swim normally..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro article on Starbuck, the runner up for the TIFF People's Choice Award! "The new comedy Starbuck has a story line which sounds ripped from the headlines. Recently the New York Times reported on a sperm donor who has fathered 150 children with more on the way. The Times was slightly behind the times, however, according to director and writer Ken Scott. “We’ve known of these cases and have been telling people and everyone says, ‘Yeah, come on, this is not possible,’” he says. “It is possible. It is actually happening and not in one case but in several throughout the world. People don’t believe me but they believe the New York Times. As if they have the truth, but not me!...” Read the whole thing here! Read Richard's Metro review of the movie here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Straw Dogs director Rod Lurie!“This was an era in which people were searching for answers to the madness that was going on around them,” Lurie continues, “and filmmakers were trying to provide some of the answers. You had everything from the assassinations of Kennedy and King to Vietnam to the Whitman murders to My Lai. I think all of society was trying to understand how human beings could do such things...” Read the whole thing here!

Here's Richards's interview with "Reel Steel" star Hugh Jackman.“I’ve always had a fear of fear. It’s a weird to think back now but drama school but it is a pressure kind of situation. People get kicked out of drama school. You are constantly being judged on how you are doing, are you progressing, are you not. Almost everyday you had to get up and do a monologue. Sing a song. Do it in front of everybody. I noticed I was always first. I never wanted to sit there waiting. I would see some people, they were like, ‘Don’t pick me first. I want to see five or six other people.’ I’m not saying that out of courage. [I would think] I hate this feeling, I’m just going to get up and do it. I remember one of the girls in class said to me, after about a year and a half, she said, ‘You always get up first. Why don’t you let other people go?’ I said, ‘Anyone can get up. If you want to get up put your hand up. I have no problem. But I’m not going to wait five seconds. I just want to do stuff.’ I remember hanging back for a little while. I’d wait five seconds. I’d count to five in my head. ‘Alright! I’m up!’ It was too uncomfortable to sit, stewing over that. I don’t think I’ve told anyone else that.” Listen to the whole thing here!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with Albert Brooks of Drive! They talk twitter and unconventional casting! “The same twelve people play all the roles,” he says. “Even though you may like an actor, there’s no surprise anymore. When Edward G. Robinson came on-screen you knew what he was going to do. So the fact that [director] Nicolas [Winding Refn] thought this was a good idea worked for everybody. I wanted to try something different. It doesn’t let the audience know one hundred percent just because they see me. As a matter of fact, they might even think something different. It’s always a good thing in movies if you can do that and pull it off.”

His performance is getting great buzz—he even manages to upstage Gosling—and says it is a movie that sticks with you. After seeing it for the first time he couldn’t get it out of his head..." Read the whole thing here!

The Toronto International Film Festival. Here's some of Richard's TIFF coverage!

Read about how a part time actor crashed one of TOIFF's most exclusive parties in this CTV.ca story! "Movie critic Richard Crouse said that was probably the toughest part. "(Producers) are usually surrounded by people who are supposed to protect them from people with scripts," said Crouse..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's reaction to Madonna and the Volunteergate controversy at the festival from the Toronto Star! Here's a hint... he uses the word "fabrication!"

Here's Richard's Red Carpet Diairy interview with Director Paddy Considine of 'Tyrannosaur' at the Toronto Film Festival 2011. "The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's  Red Carpet Diary interview with Ralph Fiennes for his new film 'Coriolanus', at the Toronto Film Festival 2011. "'Coriolanus' is about a banished hero of Rome who allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city." Watch the whole thing here!

A conversation with Greta Gerwig and Carrie MacLemore of 'Damsels in Distress', at the Toronto Film Festival 2011. "Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and produced by Westerly Film Production, 'Damsels in Distress' is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary interview with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill! A con­ver­sa­tion with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill of 'Mon­ey­ball' at the Toronto Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val 2011.Their new Movie is about Oak­land A's gen­eral man­ager Billy Beane's suc­cess­ful attempt to put together a base­ball club on a bud­get by employ­ing computer-generated analy­sis to draft his players. Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary conversation with Producer Bryce Dallas Howard of 'Restless' at the Toronto International Film Festival 2011. ""'Restless' tells the story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary interview with John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, producer of Sons of Norway! "It's not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit, a glaring exception in a community where equality and conformity is the norm. He always stands up for his son, supporting him unconditionally, even when Nikolaj decides to stop giving a damn. SONS OF NORWAY is a film about rebellion, punk rock, suburban hell and the struggle between freaks and punks. But most of all, it's the story of an unusual father-son relationship, and about the strength of the bonds we sometimes do our best to rip apart." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary interview with Coriolanus star Brian Cox! "A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city. " Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary interview with Killer Joe star Emile Hirsch! "When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance." Watch the whole thing here!

Here's Richard's Red Carpet Diary conversation with Director William Friedkin and Writer Tracy Letts of 'Killer Joe' at the Toronto Film Festival 2011 "When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary interview with The Flying Machine star Heather Graham! "'The Flying Machine' is a 3D live action/animation family feature film about a stressed out business-woman, Georgie (played by Heather Graham), who takes her two children to see the animation film 'Magic Piano', which is being performed live by world famous pianist Lang Lang. A magical event occurs and Georgie's kids get transported inside the animation world, and Georgie has to pursue them, with a little help from Maestro Lang Lang. The "Magic Piano" which is a stop-motion animation tells a story of Anna, a girl whose dad had to leave Poland to work in London. Anna and her cousin Chip Chip find a broken piano which magically transforms into a flying machine and takes them across the Europe. The girl hopes to meet her longing dad." Watch the whole thing here!  

Here's Richard's Red Carpet Diairy interview with Antonio Banderas of 'The Skin I Live In' at the Toronto Film Festival 2011. "In 'The Skin I Line In', a brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig is a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary conversation with Elena Anaya of 'The Skin I Live In' at the Toronto Film Festival 2011. "A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig is a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession." Watch the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Red Carpet Diary conversation with Cory Monteith and Dustin Milligan of 'Sisters & Brothers' at the Toronto Film Festival 2011. "'Sisters & Brothers' is a bracingly funny look into the lives of four sets of siblings. Brimming with affection, hostility and a healthy dose of guilt, it is a rich and gratifying journey through siblinghood's love and dysfunction." Watch the whole thing here!

Richard talks TIFF picks with the Cadillac TIFF Insider! Our friend, esteemed film critic Richard Crouse was kind enough to sit down with Cadillac Festival Insider at the Bell Lightbox a few days before the Toronto International Film Festival is set to kick off. Crouse shares quick thoughts on 10 movies that will premiere during #TIFF11 that WILL BE worth seeing. Richard has nice words so far for; Drive, 50 /50, The Artist, The Skin I Live In, Take Shelter, Melancholia, Machine Gun Preacher, Take This Waltz, Afghan Luke, and Breakaway. Watch it here!

MORE TIFF! Read Richard's thoughts on David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method from CTV.ca! "It's got great actors, a great story and historical gravitas. It's is also being launched at a major international film festival. You know Oscar voters will give it some consideration," said Crouse. Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Toronto International Film Festival picks in the Toronto Star's annual Festival Face Off! Find out which movie Richard says has, "hands down the best title of the festival." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's City Post article on the top Toronto based films! To answer the question “Wait, they make movies in Toronto?” posed in locally filmed flick Scott Pilgrim, we say, “yes!” Here’s a look at 25 T.O. films that helped shape our cinematic landscape..." Read the whole thing here!
Check out video of the Moneyball press conference Richard hosted at TIFF! Pictured from left to right, Chris Pratt, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Bennett Miller. 

Check out this video of the 360 press conference Richard hosted at TIFF! Some info on the film: Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's classic La Ronde, screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles' 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix into a single, mesmerizing narrative.

Check out this video of the Twixt press conference Richard hosted with Frances Ford Coppola and Val Kilmer at the Toronto International Film Festival! "A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated." 

Check out this video of the W.E. press conference Richard hosted with (from left to right) composer Abel Korzeniowski, Andrea Riseborough, Madonna and Abbie Cornish at the Toronto International Film Festival! "A two-tiered romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard." Read all about the press conference in this National Post wrap up!

Every year there is a highlight during TIFF. An interview or a moment you'll never forget. This year my gotcha moment came early... Interviewed the Elvis of Punk Rock, John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten for a movie he produced called Sons of Norway. Funny, smart and unpredictable... that'll be a tough one to top. Watch the interview here!

Richard is one of the new pop culture writers for The Morton Report. What's that you ask? Here's some info from the site: The Morton Report, Where popular culture meets swanky living, is the place where everything on the pop culture radar is covered in style. The breadth of our coverage is exceeded only by the quality of our writing, so if you're looking for informed, entertaining, and articulate commentary, The Morton Report is the place to look.
Read Richard's archived columns here!
Read  A Tale of Two Posters here!
Read I Wonder Where the Wonder Went here!
Read Why Jerry Lewis is Wrong here!
Read Is Charlie Sheen the New Mickey Rourke? here!
Read The Critc's Dilemma: To Snark or Not to Snark here!
Read Johnny Depp: Sell Out or Crowd Pleaser? here!
Read Horcrux!? What Did You Just Call Me? here!
Read How Can I Miss the 80s If They Won't Go Away? here!
Read Is Daniel Craig a Star in Karachi? here!
Read Is Louis C.K. the Funniest Man Alive? here!
Read Final Destination 5: Terror in the Aisles! here!
Read I Give It Infinity Stars Plus Ten! here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Straw Dogs director Rod Lurie!“This was an era in which people were searching for answers to the madness that was going on around them,” Lurie continues, “and filmmakers were trying to provide some of the answers. You had everything from the assassinations of Kennedy and King to Vietnam to the Whitman murders to My Lai. I think all of society was trying to understand how human beings could do such things...” Read the whole thing here!

Check out Richard's Metro interview with "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" producer Guillermo del Toro! "Guillermo del Toro may be the world’s cuddliest boogeyman. When I enter the hotel room to interview the 47-year-old producer of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, he stands up and hugs me. Not exactly what you anticipate from a master of horror...." Read the whole thing here!

Check out Richard's interview with "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" producer Guillermo del Toro! They discuss why people go to the movies to get scared and what kind of projects interest him! Here's some info on "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" from IMDB: "A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own." Listen to the whole thing here! Check out the official website here!  

Read Richard's Metro interview with Dustin Milligan and Sara Paxton, stars of "Shark Night 3D"! “One of my favorite things to do,” says Dustin, “was to watch the team with the remote controls. There’s three guys; one person working the tail and the body, one person working the head up and down and one guy working the jaw specifically. And the guy doing the jaw work was always snarling, moving his jaw with it. It’s a testament to the quality of the shark work that went into this. Even behind the scenes these guys were living the life of a shark while they were trying to eat us...” Read the whole thing here!

Listen to Richard's interview with "Final Destination 5" star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood! They discuss Fantasia, her crazy death scenes in the movies and the importance of her fans!Here's some info from IMDB: "Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death." Listen to the interview here!

Check out Richard's interview (more of a monologue really) with "Red State" director Kevin Smith!They talk about why Smith chose to make this film at this point in his career and why he doesn't hate critics as much as he used to! Here's some info on the film from IMDB: "Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda." Listen to the whole thing here! Read more about "Red State" here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "The Help" star Bryce Dallas Howard! "At the beginning of my interview with Bryce Dallas Howard she does something I’ve never experienced before in a celebrity sit-down. Curled up on a coach in Toronto’s Park Hyatt Hotel the four-and-a-half month pregnant star of The Help does something really un-celebrity-like—she offers to hold the microphone I’m using to record our chat..." Read the whole thing here! Listen to a snippet of Richard's interview with Bryce here! Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with Howard here!

Check this out! A rare 35mm screening of Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, including an exclusive Q&A with star Lance Henriksen hosted by TV personality Richard Crouse at the Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina Ave.) on Thursday, August 25 at 8 p.m., tickets only $15 door/advance. Here's some info on the film from wikipedia! "Near Dark is an American vampire/Western horror film, written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow, and directed by Bigelow. The story follows a young man in a small midwestern town who becomes involved with a family of nomadic American vampires. Starring then little-known actors Adrian Pasdar and Jenny Wright, the movie was released in 1987, part of a revival of serious vampire movies in the late 1980s."

Here's Richard's interview (audio only) with "Attack the Block" star Nick Frost! Here's some info from wikipedia about the movie: "Attack the Block is a 2011 British science fiction horror film in a comedic vein directed by Joe Cornish. It stars John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost and Luke Treadaway. Set on a council estate in South London on Bonfire night, the film follows a street gang which have to defend themselves from rowdy alien invaders. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2011. Attack the Block is the directorial debut of Cornish."

Watch Richard interview with Ryan Gostling, the Canadian actor who stars in the new romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love as a ladies’ man who teaches Steve Carell’s character how to get his game back while his marriage is unraveling. Read more about the movie at IMDB: "Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of help..."

Watch Richard's Canada AM live hit through the Bell TIFF Lightbox's exhibit celebrating the genius of Federico Fellini here! He talks about the importance of Fellini's films, Rome and the famous La Dolce Vita kiss that never was! Read more about the exhibit here! Here's somne info from tiff.net! "Comprised of over four hundred works that explore the obsessions that recur throughout his films and life, Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions places this singular artist within the context of the mass media, celebrity culture—and the rise of the paparazzi!"

IN SHORT features short films from up-and-coming and well-known Canadian filmmakers. Airing over eight consecutive weeks on Bravo!, this month’s episodes include award-winning shorts based on one of the seven deadly sins and their accompanying virtues. Hosted by renowned film critic Richard Crouse, IN SHORT is an eight-part series of one-hour specials featuring Canadian short films created by up-and-coming and established film makers. This month’s episodes are each based on one of the deadly sins and their accompanying virtues!

Watch full episodes of Richard's Bravo show In Short here!
Episode One features short films based on Pride and Humility!
Episode Two features the sin of Envy and the virtue Kindness!
Episode Three features Lust and Chastity!
Episode Four features Greed and Charity!
Episode Five features Wrath and Patience!
Episode Six features Sloth and Diligence!
Epidose Seven features Gluttony and Temperance!
Episode Eight features the Best of BravoFact!
Read about the show here!

Read the nsi write up about the show here!

And here from criticizethis.ca!

Read about Bravo's sin central here!

Read an article from the Calgary Herald!

More from miumiuhandbags1.blogspot.com!

It's Getting Harry in Here! "Someone once said, “The trick is growing up without growing old,” and as we reach the end of the Harry Potter film cycle that saying rings true. The series has matured but not over stayed its welcome. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the eighth, and final film in the franchise is a fitting end for the Boy Wizard and friends. It’s a mature movie that puts a period on the story without being maudlin or overly sentimental..." To read the rest of Richard's review for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" click on the  Review-O-Rama tab! (don't like to read? watch the review here!)

THEN! Watch Richard discussing the Hary Potter films and their influence on Hollywood on Canada AM here! Read Richard's archived Hary Potter reviews here! Read Richard's Morton Report overview of the Harry Potter films here! Read Richard's thoughts on Harry Potter's Oscar chances fronm CTV.ca here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for Captain America, Friends with Benefits and Project Nim here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" and "Winnie the Pooh" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Horrible Bosses" "Zookeeper" "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" and " "Page One: Inside the New York Times" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," "Larry Crowne" and "Monte Carlo" here.

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "Cars 2" and "Bad Teacher" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "The Green lantern" "Mr. Popper's Penguins" and "Beginners" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "Super 8" "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer" and "Tree of Life" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "X-Men: First Class" "Midnight in Paris" "Good Neighbours" and "Beginners" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "The Hangover Part 2" and "Kung Fu Panda 2" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "Last Night" and "Forks Over Knives" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Bridesmaids and "Meet Monica Velour" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "The Hangover Part 2" and "Kung Fu Panda 2" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews for "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "Last Night" and "Forks Over Knives" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Bridesmaids and "Meet Monica Velour" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Water for Elephants" "The High Cost of Living" and "African Cats" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Rio" "Daydream Nation" and "Scream 4" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Arthur" "Hanna" and "Born to be Wild 3D" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Hop" "Source Code" and "Insidious" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Sucker Punch" "Hobo with a Shotgun" and "Jane Eyre" here.

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "The Lincoln Lawyer" "Paul" and "Limitless" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "The Adjustment Bureau" Rango" and "Beastly" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "Hall Pass" and "Drive Angry 3D" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of "I Am Number Four" and "Unknown" here!

Watch Richard's Canada Am reviews of "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" and new reviews for "Gnomeo & Juliet" "Just Go With It" "the Eagle" and "Cedar Rapids" here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of Sanctum and the DVD Never Let Me Go here.

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of The Mechanic, The Rite and Casino Jack here!

"Justin Timberlake is many things: music superstar, a booze baron (he owns a brand of tequila called 901), and all round mogul with a clothing line, restaurants and a record label. All that at just thirty years of age, but like so many singing stars before him, it seems what he really wants to do is act." Read the rest of Richard's Metro column on Justin Timberlake and "Friends with Benefits" here!

Read Richard's Metro column on movie franchises! "In 2005 when the fourth installment of the Harry Potter films hit screens, I wrote, ‘The Harry Potter phenomenon is so powerful that you could have called this Harry Potter Drinks a Goblet of Water and presented an Andy Warhol-style film of young Harry chugging a glass of H2O for two hours and Potterheads would still wear their wizard hats and line up to see it.’ Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Burny Mattinson! He worked with Walt on the original "Winnie the Pooh" and returns for the new Winnie movie! “He came out afterwards and said, ‘You know, I think we should cut our losses. I don’t think audiences are going to like this kind of humour. It’s too mild. Let’s put it out as a featurette.’ So we cut it to 20 minutes and lost a lot of footage. We put it out as Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and it did very well, and Walt said, ‘Well we have the rest of this footage, let’s put it out as A Blustery Day. Which we did and it won an Academy Award the following year.” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's interview with Horrible Bosses star Kevin Spacey! “I got to a point where I thought, 'That went better than I could possibly have ever hoped. Now what? Am I going to spend the next 10 years chasing the same dream?' I thought, A: I don’t need to top myself and B: I’d like to take all the incredible personal good fortune and attention that came to me and put it toward something that isn’t about me. That is about putting myself back into something that has always been my first love...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with "Horrible Bosses" star Jason Sudeikis! "It’s a buddy comedy expanded to three, just like another big hit this summer, The Hangover Part 2. “People, if they want to be crappy about it will say, ‘Oh, they want to be The Hangover,’ but it is totally different...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's interview with "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" director Rodman Flender! "And like a real person, he has real feelings and he has moods and he is kind and generous and he gets tired and cranky at the end of a long day and that is what I think it is to be a human being. It’s interesting to me that so many people have thought, ‘Oh wow, it’s such a negative portrait of him,’ but he doesn’t do drugs, he doesn’t abuse anybody...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro article on the Canadian connection to Winnie the Pooh! For Vancouverite Clio Change, Winnie the Pooh marks a landmark — it’s her first Disney film. “I think I was four when I told my dad I wanted to work here,” she says. “He said, ‘OK, you can sell Coke in the parks in a mouse suit.’ Luckily it was animation instead. When I ask her if all the Disney Canucks have their own table in the cafeteria she nods and laughs, “We eat maple cookies and drink syrup...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro look at horrible bosses in the movies! "This weekend, a new movie takes hatred for bad bosses to a new level. The guys in Horrible Bosses, a new comedy starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis, hate their supervisors, and try to solve their employment problems…permanently..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Transformers: Dark of the Moon star Tyrese Gibson! "Making his new film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, was intense, he says, because “we were working on something the world is anticipating.” Later he mentions Michelle Obama is a fan of his book How to Get Out of Your Own Way. “I’m going to meet her one day,” he muses, “and she’s going to say, ‘Hey I got your book. Thank you so much.’ She was probably reading my book in her bed and her husband came to bed. ‘What are you reading, baby?’ ‘Oh, Tyrese’s new book...’” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Green Lantern star Mark Strong here! "But what kind of movie star likes to go unrecognized? Surely not someone who has starred in Guy Ritchie and Ridley Scott movies and acted opposite the likes of Robert Downey Jr. and Leonardo DiCaprio? “The truth is I’ve never courted fame,” he says..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on the worst movie teachers ever! "Probably the worst teacher ever appears in Class of 1984, a trashy school drama starring Roddy MacDowell as Terry Corrigan, a fed up teacher who threatens his unruly class with a loaded gun..." Read the whole thing here! 

Read Richard's Metro interview with Mr. Popper's Penguins star James Tupper! "James Tupper, the Nova Scotia-born star of Mr. Popper’s Penguins, calls his co-stars “ornery.” No, he’s not talking about Jim Carrey or Angela Lansbury. He’s referring to the movie’s aquatic, flightless actors..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard in the National Post's Culture Panel on the subject of viral marketing! "Is it possible that for certain kinds of movies — like sci-fi and horror — viral marketing is simply a tool to alert fanboys (and girls) that there’s a new movie out there to download instead of checking out in the theatre?..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Super 8 star Ryan Lee! "Who says kid actors can’t have normal childhoods? During a phone interview with Ryan Lee, the 15-year-old Super 8 star, he briefly interrupts our chat to act like a youngster. “I just saw a stray dog and I’m trying to catch him right now. What was your question again?”" Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on kid's book adaptations! "According to Wikipedia, books written specifically for children have existed since the 17th century. Some of those books and stories have endured -- Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Some have not -- remember the 1658 book, Orbis Pictus in Bohemia? However, stories for kids remain among the top sellers at bookstores and on line. Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on the career of Ryan Reynolds! "This weekend, Ryan Reynolds becomes a superhero, donning the super-tight tights of The Green Lantern, protecting and hopefully entertaining the universe..." Read the whole thing here! 

Read Richard's Metro interview with Mr. Popper's Penguins star James Tupper! "James Tupper, the Nova Scotia-born star of Mr. Popper’s Penguins, calls his co-stars “ornery.” No, he’s not talking about Jim Carrey or Angela Lansbury. He’s referring to the movie’s aquatic, flightless actors..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard in the National Post's Culture Panel on the subject of viral marketing! "Is it possible that for certain kinds of movies — like sci-fi and horror — viral marketing is simply a tool to alert fanboys (and girls) that there’s a new movie out there to download instead of checking out in the theatre?..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Super 8 star Ryan Lee! "Who says kid actors can’t have normal childhoods? During a phone interview with Ryan Lee, the 15-year-old Super 8 star, he briefly interrupts our chat to act like a youngster. “I just saw a stray dog and I’m trying to catch him right now. What was your question again?”" Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on kid's book adaptations! "According to Wikipedia, books written specifically for children have existed since the 17th century. Some of those books and stories have endured -- Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Some have not -- remember the 1658 book, Orbis Pictus in Bohemia? However, stories for kids remain among the top sellers at bookstores and on line. Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's interview with Jay Baruchel from Metro! "Good Neighbours is the second collaboration between Montrealers Jay Baruchel and director Jacob Tierney, following up last year’s high school comedy The Trotsky. Baruchel says their connection began because “we are both rabid Habs fans and movie nerds” but solidified on set..." Read the whole thing here!               

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with "The Beaver" director Jodie Foster! "Stand aside Oprah, Jodie Foster must be the most powerful woman in Hollywood. Possibly in all the world. Not only did she get The Beaver, a difficult script, long thought to be brilliant but unfilmable, to the big screen but then got the movie released in spite of her star, Mel Gibson turning into a public relations nightmare..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's interview with legendary producer Roger Corman! "The man who gave us movies about humanoids from the deep, crab monsters and wasp women is at it again. The release of Dinoshark on DVD brings legendary producer Roger Corman full circle, right back to the creature feature movies that made him famous in the 1950s...." Read the whole thing here!     

Here's an interview with Richard and the Globe and Mail's Book Madame Julie Wilson about John Waters and the perfect night of conversation. "I’m not sure if it is John Waters who has changed or if it is the world that has gone through a transformation..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro interview with Meet Monica Velour star Kim Cattrall! “I really believe this film should be seen,” she says. “I feel like such a big mouth famous, but Michael Stipe is a friend of mine, and he brought a bunch of people to see the film. A couple of them were younger and they said, ‘We’ve never seen a film like that. We really enjoyed it. It unfolded in a different way...’" Read the whole thing here!

NEW! EXCITING! Check out the Metro Weekender in Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver on Friday to read Richard's new movie column! Every Friday Richard and Yuk Yuk's founder and comedy guru Mark Breslin will discuss the weekend's biggest releases! This week they take on "Sucker Punch"! "Mark, the first thing that came to mind after watching Sucker Punch was, “What the heck was that?” The visual sensualist in me loved the look of it, but the rest of me wanted other things. Like a story. Or characters. It made my eyeballs dance, but left the rest of me bored. You?" Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's column on Women in Prison movies! "It wasn’t until Spanish exploitation filmmaker Jess Franco hit upon the misogynistic recipe of mixing babes, bars and bondage, however, that the subgenre was officially born. His first WIP movie, 99 Women (featuring the voice of the demon child in The Exorcist, Mercedes McCambridge), sparked a revolution in sexploitation films..." Read the whole thing here.

Here's an excerpt from my Cannes Diary detailing my encounter with Elizabeth Taylor.

WEDNESDAY MAY 21, 2003

At 4 o’clock I meet the crew at the Olympia theatre just off the main drag. It is a smaller theatre that is not part of the festival per se, but often distributors rent the place to showcase movies they are trying to sell. Today there is a screening of Giant, the 1956 film starring Rock Hudson, James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor. We have been invited to join the scrum on the red carpet, and try and grab interviews with the celebrities who will be attending. We don’t normally cover events like this, but I am told that Liz herself will be speaking to the press, and I don’t want to miss the chance to speak to a film legend.

We line up at four pm and are crammed into a small fenced-in area on the left side of the red carpet. The plan is that Elizabeth will walk up one side, stopping every few feet and chatting, then continue down the other side. Everyone should get a chance to grab and interview. She will, however, be quite late. The film starts at six pm, and we are told not to expect her until at least 5:30 or 5:45. These things never go as planned, and I’m fairly convinced that we won’t get to speak with her, but I’m willing to wait in the sun, pressed up against other reporters on the off chance that we can get her.

At 5:05 a black limo pulls up and Liz gets out. She’s on time. People are stunned. She’s never on time for anything. I later hear from a publicist that they told her the event was at 2 pm. By telling her the call time was three hours earlier than it actually was they figured they could get her to the appearance on time. In her mind she was arriving fashionably late – three hours late.

The photographers go crazy. “Leez! Leez!,” they’re yelling. There is a push forward as she stops to pose for photos. She’s wearing Fort Knox – enough jewels to pay the debt of several small countries, but looks frail. She's escorted by two men, one on each arm who usher her along. She stops at the reporter next to me. That probably means I won’t get her, as I’m sure they’ll try and move through the line fairly quickly.

But no! She stops in front of me. I ask her one question. Then another and another after that. I actually get her attention for a few minutes. I’M THE KING OF CANNES!

After I speak to her the rush her along to one more reporter, then hustle her inside. They missed one whole of side of the red carpet, including the reporter from Entertainment Tonight. For once, I think to myself, I get an interview that  not even ET could get. A few minutes later a car pulls up to the front door of the theatre and Liz is helped inside. We hear later that she isn’t up to staying and had to be taken back to her hotel. As the car was pulling out I saw the woman from ET chasing the car, desperately yelling, “Hey Liz! Got a minute for ET!!!!”

Watch Richard and Marcia MacMillan recap a week of Oscar predictions on CTV's News Channel!

The exciting Canada AM Oscar panel part one!

Here's part two of the live Canada AM Oscar panel! Watch it here!

It's award season! To see Richard run through the Oscar nominations with CTV News's Marci Ien click here!

 Read more about the Oscars and Richard's reaction from CTV.ca!

Read even more of Richard's reaction to the Oscars from The Daily Planet!

Here's a complete list of the nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards!

Read Richard's take on the Razzie Awards from the DailyPlanet.com! “Cher, Liza Minnelli and Barbara Streisand, sort of the battling divas who are vying for worst supporting actress, they all deserve a little slap on the wrist for doing awful work in movies this year,” Crouse said..." Read the whole thing here!

And the nominees for the 31st Razzie Awards are...

Read Richard's take on how to throw an Oscar party from ctv.ca! "Canada AM film critic Richard Crouse never misses an opportunity to celebrate the biggest night in Hollywood...." Read the whole thing here.

Watch Richard's Canada AM with Oscar nominee Javier Bardem here! The actor explains how he prepared for his role in the Oscar nominated film Biutiful, and talks about what it was like to work with acclaimed Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez.

On Tuesday February 1, 2011 Richard hosted a Justin Bieber press conference to promote his new movie, Never Say Never! Read about the press conference here! Or here in the Toronto Star! Or here from MSN! And here! Watch Richard's Bieber Week coverage here: Or here from torontoist.com Or! Watch Richard's Bieber Week coverage here: The Press Conference! From the CTV National News! From CTV's News Channel with host Marcia MacMillan! Also! Read Richard's Metro column on hosting a press conference with Justin Bieber! "So what’s my answer to the burning question, 'What’s Justin Bieber like?' Well, he’s just like any other high energy, fan-lovin’ Canadian multi-millionaire 16-year-old pop superstar with a taste for chilled coffee..." Read the whole thing here! 

NEW! EXCITING! Check out the Metro Weekender in Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver on Friday to read Richard's new movie column! Every Friday Richard and Yuk Yuk's founder and comedy guru Mark Breslin will discuss the weekend's biggest releases! This week they take on Drive Angry 3D! "Mark, Drive Angry has all the qualities of a great drive-in movie. There’s muscle cars, gratuitous language and nudity, a vengeful Southern cult leader and the single wildest gunfight/sex scene ever committed to celluloid. Roger Corman would have been proud. Were you? Did you like it?..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's column on characters from hell! "Lots of actors have played Earthbound versions of Satan. In The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, Mickey Rooney played Old Scratch as a piano-playing jokester in red long johns and a straw hat with horns. Tim Curry played the Devil on TV in an episode of Dinosaurs called "Life in the Faust Lane," and years before he became an Academy Award-winning composer, Danny Elfman did a strange Cab Calloway impression of Satan in the very odd film Forbidden Zone..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on Euro-thrillers! "A couple of years ago, Liam Neeson reintroduced North American audiences to the joys of the Euro-trashy-thriller. In Taken he played a retired undercover agent who rips Paris apart searching for his kidnapped daughter. “I’ll tear down the Eiffel Tower if I have to,” he said..." Read the whole thing here.

NEW! EXCITING! Check out the Metro Weekender in Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver on Friday to read Richard's new movie column! Every Friday Richard and Yuk Yuk's founder and comedy guru Mark Breslin will discuss the weekend's biggest releases! This week they take on The Rite! "Mark, if there was an after-school special about exorcism, The Rite would be it. It's earnest, has a message and there’s even a teenage pregnancy angle. I just wish it was scarier. It’s freaky but could really use a few more pea soup and head spinning scenes..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on deep, dark cave movies! "Most cave movies—and yes, that is a bona fide genre—have very similar plots. Here’s the typical rundown: A group of people jump into a giant hole and then really bad things happen. Usually at least one of the characters says, “It’s so deep... you can’t even see the bottom” just before they disappear forever..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard zoomermag.com interview with Casino Jack star Kevin Spacey! “No… no… no,” laughs. “Generally, because I tend not to repeat myself and also, I don’t think it would play for our Old Vic audience...” Curious? Read the whole thing here.

Read Richard's Metro column on cop-on-a-mission movies! "But where would the movies be without straight-ahead stock characters like the arrogant pilot or the rebellious teen? This week, The Factory, starring John Cusack, revisits one of the most frequently exploited big screen stereotypes, the obsessed cop..." Read the whole thing here!

METRO CANADA PRESENTS: OSCAR PARTY HOSTED BY RICHARD CROUSE + MARK BRESLIN: Sunday February 27 6PM_FREE LOUNGE

We're rolling out the red carpet to celebrate everyone's favorite awards show in true Drake style. Put on your best red carpet attire and take part in the best Oscar pool in town! Munch on free popcorn, sip some bubbly, challenge your friends in cinematic trivia and cheer on your favorites from the silver screen. Door prizes include a hotel stay, movie passes + more! Hosted by Reel Guys Richard Crouse + Mark Breslin, the Oscar party at Drake is well worth the excitement and easier than messing up your living room! Call 416.531.5042 ext.1 to reserve your seat.

Check out the Metro Weekender in Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver on Friday to read Richard's new movie column! Every Friday Richard and Yuk Yuk's founder and comedy guru Mark Breslin will discuss the weekend's biggest releases! This week they take on No Strings Attached! "I don’t know about you Mark, but I don’t think Natalie Portman has to worry about No Strings Attached “Norbiting” her chance of an Oscar nomination. It has charm here and there, but is so bland I don’t even think Academy Award voters will even remember she was in the movie by Monday when their ballots are due..." Read the whole thing here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM reviews of No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher as two twenty-something Los Angelinos who try and keep their relationship purely physical, Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones in The Company Men, the Peter Weir directed The Way Back and Canada's entry to the Academy Awards, Incendies... all in 3 1/2 minutes!

On Tuesday January 11, 2011 Richard hosted a screening of "The Way Back" and Q&A with director Peter Weir at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto! Read about the event here in the Will-W: Pop Maven blog! (Thanks to Will-W for the photo!) Here are some details on the film! "Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed book, "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" as well as other real life accounts, six time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir's ("Witness", "Master And Commander", & "Dead Poet's Society") "The Way Back" is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries. Stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan. A smash during its recent World Premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and Academy Award qualifying run."

Read Richard's Metro column (now on Wednesdays!) on infidelity in the movies! "Sometimes it seems like Hollywood is obsessed with infidelity, both on screen and off. Celebrity cheating scandals—Jesse and the porn star, Tiger and, well, everyone—covered the front pages recently, and Zsa Zsa Gabor once famously said, ‘How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?...'" Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column (now on Wednesdays!) on the strange career of Nicolas Cage! "A cleverly edited YouTube video featuring a montage of Nicolas Cage “losing it” in the movies has racked up 1,677,816 views, which is probably more people than saw his recent trilogy of Razzie-worthy work, The Wicker Man, Bangkok Dangerous and Knowing..." Read the whole thing here!

Check out Richard's column in the February's Reader's Digest to see his list of must-see movies for Valentine's Day!

"Rom coms have been around since the ancient Greeks but are as popular today as ever. Why? We all like laughing and all love happy endings, and while real-life relationships might not always work, it’s assured that when Harry meets Sally, it will be forever. That kind of certainty, no matter how unreal, keeps us coming back for more love and laughter..."

To read the whole thing pick up a copy of Reader's Digest today!

Here's a taste of Richard's Movie Entertainment magazine profile on Emmy Rossum! "For many performers, playing the Metropolitan Opera alongside Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti would be a career-crowning achievement. To Emmy (that’s short for Emmanuelle) Rossum, it was just another day at work. She made $5 a night singing with the children’s choir. 'There was a horse on stage in a Zeffirelli production that got $150 a night,' she says with a laugh, before adding that the experience taught her to never take a job for the money. 'You really realize you’re there because you love it...'" Read the whole thing here!

Watch Richard discuss (animatedly, apparently: see photo) the best and worst of 2010 with Canada AM's Beverly Thompson. What will make the list? Black Swan? Furry Vengeance? The Social Network? Vampires Suck? Exit Through the Gift Shop? Click here to find out!

Hungry for thrills and high camp? SCTV regulars Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin (pictured) star in the Canadian horror spoof Cannibal Girls as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little bed-and-breakfast run by a trio of flesh-eating ladies who fancy them for tomorrow’s menu. Pull up a seat at the table for this delightful feast when this cult horror classic Cannibal Girls, directed by Ivan Reitman, finally makes its way on DVD in the United States for the first time October 26, 2010 from Shout! Factory. Also featuring Richard's interview with Eugene Levy! Read more here! Buy it from films we like here!

Read Richard's Metro column on great movies to ring in the New Year! "Dec. 31 is one of the busiest nights of the year in bars and restaurants, which is precisely why I like to stay home. I don’t enjoy the crowds or the inevitable awkward midnight kissing that goes along with New Year’s Eve. But just because I don’t like to whoop it up in public doesn’t mean I don’t celebrate. I prefer to staycation, curling up with the P.M.C. (the Preferred Movie Companion), a bottle of something sparkly and a New Year’s Eve-themed movie..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column on Christmas movies for people who don't like Christmas movies! "These days, malls are festooned in Christmas decorations by October and Starbucks has their Yuletide mugs out before the leaves have even turned. Last year, a new version of A Christmas Carol opened in early November and on TV, A Christmas Story played for 24 solid hours on Dec. 25. It’s easy to get Christmased-out long before the big day rolls around. There’s too much tinsel, too many in-your-face Santas, but for movie fans it is possible to get a taste of the holidays without having to watch James Stewart contemplate suicide..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column on 2010 most overlooked movies! "According to movieweb.com, 648 movies were released in 2010. Here are some of 2010’s releases you may have missed but are worth a look...." Read the whole thing here! 

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column on Christmas movies for people who don't like Christmas movies! "These days, malls are festooned in Christmas decorations by October and Starbucks has their Yuletide mugs out before the leaves have even turned. Last year, a new version of A Christmas Carol opened in early November and on TV, A Christmas Story played for 24 solid hours on Dec. 25. It’s easy to get Christmased-out long before the big day rolls around. There’s too much tinsel, too many in-your-face Santas, but for movie fans it is possible to get a taste of the holidays without having to watch James Stewart contemplate suicide..." Read the whole thing here!

Check out Richard's picks for Christmas holiday rentals from bunchland.ca! "Of course there is only one must-see out of all the dozens of film and TV versions of the Charles Dickens classic, and that’s the 1951 Alastair Sim version. Nearly perfect in every way, it is a tale of redemption that confirms the fundamental spiritual nature of Christmas itself. In other words, it makes us feel good. Accept no substitutes. If you must watch other versions then check out Scrooged, the 1988 reworking of the story or the animated Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol..." Read the whole thing--including Richard's picks for Christmas Movies for People Who Don't Like Christmas Movies here!

Opening this week on Christmas Eve, Barney's Version (check back for a review)! In the meantime have a look at the You Tube "In Conversation" interviews Richard did with stars Paul Giamatti and Rachelle Lefevre! Here's some info on the movie from IMDB! "The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky."

Here's Richard's Canada AM interview with "The Fighter" producer,star and Golden Globe nominee Mark Wahlberg! They talk about the real life inspiration for the film, welterweight champion boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and working with co-stars Christian Bale and Melissa Leo.

Check out this account of Richard's Q&A with Somewhere star Stephen Dorff! "Dropping by quickly the introduce what he called "the most important film of his career", Dorff was presented by CTV's Canada AM Film Critic Richard Crouse and returned post-Screening for a Q&A. Dressed in a well-cut Suit, Dorff arrived exactly as expected - ruggedly handsome. The Actor who surprisingly is diminutive compared to his on-screen presence, undoubtedly is proud of his work here...." Read Mr. Will-W, Pop Maven's whole article all about Richard's Q&A with Stephen Dorff here. Watch the Q&A here! Here's some info on the film: "A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit."

Here's a taste of Richard's Movie Entertainment magazine profile on Emily Blunt! "The first time most of us noticed Emily Blunt, she was “on-the-edge-of-sickness thin.” To play the role of Emily Chalton, the prickly first assistant to the editor in The Devil Wears Prada, Blunt had to drop pounds from her already slight frame. “It wasn’t like doughnuts were snatched out of my hand,” says the 5-foot-7½ actress, but she was encouraged to slim down. So much so that she would occasionally cry from hunger during the shoot. But however hungry, Blunt still mustered the energy to steal the movie from her more seasoned co-stars, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci..." Read the whole thing here!

Read a piece on the late great Leslie Nielsen from ctv.ca! "About a year and a half ago, I hosted a panel with him at the Fan Expo in Toronto. And every time I would come near him, he had a little flatulence device that he would hit," Crouse remembered. "That was his thing; he had it with him all the time. Thirty years he carried this thing around and he was legendary for it. So every time I went near him, he would make the sound, and then he would look at me kind of disdainfully. And then with perfect timing, he would look at the audience with that ‘What am I supposed to do with this guy?' look. And it got a huge laugh every single time," Crouse said with a laugh... Read the whole thing here. Watch Richard's Canada AM tribute to Nielsen here!

Check out Richard's picks for Christmas holiday rentals from bunchland.ca! "Of course there is only one must-see out of all the dozens of film and TV versions of the Charles Dickens classic, and that’s the 1951 Alastair Sim version. Nearly perfect in every way, it is a tale of redemption that confirms the fundamental spiritual nature of Christmas itself. In other words, it makes us feel good. Accept no substitutes. If you must watch other versions then check out Scrooged, the 1988 reworking of the story or the animated Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol..." Read the whole thing--including Richard's picks for Christmas Movies for People Who Don't Like Christmas Movies here!

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column fictitioius drugs in the movies! "We’ve all heard those disclaimers at the end of pharmaceutical commercials. 'May be-harmful-to-humans-if-swallowed-the-most-common-side-effects-are-temporary-eyelid-droop-nausea-decreased-sweating-avoid-contact-with-skin...'" Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Tim Burton article from zoomermag.com! "Tim Burton’s cell phone ring tone is exactly what you would expect from the man who has directed some of the most atmospheric films of the last two decades. In Toronto this week to promote an exhibition of his art and films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Burton was mid sentence when his cell phone went off. The eerie wail of a Theremin filled the room..."Read the whole thing on zoomermag.com here!

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column on Hogwarts and other cinematic prep schools! "Most vapid, however, is Private School, starring Phoebe Cates and Matthew Modine as star-crossed students from the Cherryvale Academy for Women and the Freemount Academy for Men. Completely devoid of merit, it most famously features gratuitous topless horseback riding and a female shower scene; behaviour Albus Dumbledore would certainly frown on. Critics too frowned upon the movie. One writer said “hardcore porn has a better reputation” than this teen sex comedy..." Read the whole thing here. 

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with "The Next Three Days" director Paul Haggis. "When I ask Paul Haggis, the Canadian-born but Los Angeles-based writer-director, if he considers himself Canadian or American or perhaps a cross-section of both—Camerican—he laughs and says, “Snowback is what I’m called down there,” before adding, “I feel like an outsider in both countries which I think is really good for me. I’m a bit of a misanthrope and a loner, even though I’m a social loner. A social hermit. I can work a party like nobody’s business but if you really know me and look in my eyes you’ll see how uncomfortable I am...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column on live TV in the movies! "There are no second chances or do-overs in live television. Just ask the cast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground who had to continue performing even though the star of the show, Gareth Jones, died during the live broadcast. The show, as they say, must go on whether your star drops dead, you have a wardrobe malfunction, or, as we see in this weekend’s Morning Glory, your co-hosts can’t stand one another..." Read the whole thing here. 

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column on survival in the movies! "The ghoulish humour some audiences found in the film’s story of survival was echoed in Lane’s review when he wrote that the film, “solemnly wring(s) a message of togetherness from the horror. Come closer to your friends than ever before, the movie says: have them for lunch...” Read the whole thing here!

COMING SOON! Hungry for thrills and high camp this Halloween? SCTV regulars Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin (pictured) star in the Canadian horror spoof Cannibal Girls as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little bed-and-breakfast run by a trio of flesh-eating ladies who fancy them for tomorrow’s menu. Pull up a seat at the table for this delightful feast when this cult horror classic Cannibal Girls, directed by Ivan Reitman, finally makes its way on DVD in the United States for the first time October 26, 2010 from Shout! Factory. Also featuring Richard's interview with Eugene Levy! Read more here!

Richard Crouse’s 3 favourite Halloween movies (For Kids!) from bunchfamily.com.

"Yesterday we gave you our list of the 7 best Halloween movies for families, rated for scariness by our in-house film critic, 5-year-old Sam.  A number of you sounded off in the comments to let us know we had left a few choice movies off our list. And now we have esteemed film critic Richard Crouse weighing in."
1. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
“This is a family classic, a story that hasn’t aged at all since it was first seen on television in 1966...” To read the whole thing click here!

Also... Check out Richard's scary Top Ten from The Horror Blog! Read it here!

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column on the scariest movie scenes ever! "A Saturday matinee screening of last year’s Paranormal Activity was the first and only time I have ever heard anyone actually scream in a theatre. I don’t mean a quiet whimper followed by an embarrassed laugh or a frightened little squeal. No, I mean a full-on, open throated howl of terror..." Read the whole thing here.

Just in time for Halloween! Read Richard's zoomermag.com article on Night of the Living Dead! “George right away got excited, slammed the table with his big hand, sending bottles and glasses flying, and yelled, ‘We’re gonna make a movie!’” Read the whole thing here!

Read about Richard's International Festival of Authors interview with John Waters! "Folks, it’s the John Waters spectacle. The ironist, iconoclast, and cult Renaissance man himself. For those unfamiliar with Waters’ work, there is little that I can write in this modest overview to encapsulate it. Watch his movies, view his art. Go to a small-town strip-club and feel sorry for the dancers. Watch the slanting, clandestine gleams in their eyes. Realize that they’re feeling sorry for you, too. Find that funny. Find beauty. Love the gully-things, the glamour-things, the way skin can shine with age. Remember that, good or bad, people are inherently weird..." Read the rest of the article from The Toronto Quarterly by Caitlin Galway here! (photo supplied by readings.org)

Here's an interview with Richard and the Globe and Mail's Book Madame Julie Wilson about John Waters and the perfect night of conversation. "I’m not sure if it is John Waters who has changed or if it is the world that has gone through a transformation..." Read the whole thing here

Check out Richard's look at the afterlife on film in the Metro Weekender! "In Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen goes for the joke, taking the viewer on an elevator ride through hell’s nine floors, each reserved for a different kind of sinner. Best line? “Floor 7: the media. Sorry, that floor is all filled up...” Read the whole thing here. Read the whole thing here!

Here's Richard's interview with Rick Springfield from zoomermag.com! Read it here! "The book is brutally frank. He writes about being a 17 year-old musician in 1968 on a USO tour of Vietnam and helping to load mortar shells during an attack. One of those bombs killed a Viet Cong soldier. “That was difficult to write about,” he says, “because I’m the guy who lifts bees out of the swimming pool if I think they’re drowning..."

Have a look at Richard's interview with Olivia Newton-John from the Metro Weekender! "She saves her highest praise, however, for her young co-stars, Noah Reid and Allie MacDonald who play her son and his best friend. When asked if she passed along any tips to the neophytes she said, “They are both really gifted. I probably should have asked them for hints rather than the other way around...” Read the whole thing here.

Check out Richard's look at Edward Norton's time behind bars in the Metro Weekender! "Edward Norton has made a career of playing jailbirds on screen. His edgy intensity lights up movies like this weekend’s Stone, despite one writer calling him “the passport definition of no distinguishing marks...” Read the whole thing here.

Check out Richard's sit down with Olivia Neutron-Bomb from zoomermag.com! "When it was all said and done did playing a hockey mom and shooting in the home of the Maple Leafs make her a hockey fan? 'I guess I’ll have to become one,' she laughs. 'My husband loves it and he took me to a game a few years ago in Florida. I couldn’t keep up with the puck though. It was too fast...'" They discuss Score: A Hockey Musical and shooting the film in Toronto! Read the whole thing here!

Just in time for John Lennon's 70th birthday read Richard's interview Nowhere Boy star Aaron Johnson! "The toughest critic of all, Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono lent a hand to filmmakers early on when she granted the right to use the song Mother over the closing credits. “Yoko has been a huge supporter of this film,” says Johnson. “She says if you want to understand John even more, and see what pain he put away this is the untold story...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with indie legend John Sayles! “You can absolutely, for very little money, make a good movie,” says director John Sayles. “You just need a good imagination and some good coconspirators and you can do it.” Read the whole thing here!

Here's a herepopshifter write-up on Richard's night with Ken Russell! "As part of this year’s FanExpo, Rue Morgue  presented “Confessions of a Gothic Messiah: An Evening with Ken Russell” at the Bloor Cinema, a special screening of Russell’s 1971 film, The Devils, hosted by film critic Richard Crouse and attended by the director himself. Crouse set the tone for the evening when he remarked on his own introduction into Russell’s body of work, 1975’s Tommy. He recalled his fervent desire to see the film as a teen, one which he knew would not play in his small town for months (or perhaps even ever). He hitchhiked a couple of hundred miles to the closest theater featuring a showing. Then, as soon as it was over, he bought another ticket. And then another, until he realized those couple of hundred miles were going to seem even longer on the return trip, especially when he hadn’t told anyone in his family where he was going. Such is the obsessive, addictive, and transformative power of cinema..." Read the whole thing by Less Lee Moore here.

Read Richard's Metro interview with Let Me In director Matt Reeves! “As a young person horror films terrified me,” says Let Me In director Matt Reeve. “To this day if you were to show me a picture of Linda Blair in her Regan MacNeil getup, and I wasn’t prepared, the hair would stand up on the back of my neck and my blood would run cold..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro column on American remakes of foreign films! "This weekend the story of a 12-year-old vampire who helps her young neighbour deal with bullies at school hits theatres. Sound familiar? It should, the movie is an American remake of a Swedish art house hit from less than twelve months ago..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with indie legend John Sayles! “You can absolutely, for very little money, make a good movie,” says director John Sayles. “You just need a good imagination and some good coconspirators and you can do it.” Read the whole thing here!

Here's a herepopshifter write-up on Richard's night with Ken Russell! "As part of this year’s FanExpo, Rue Morgue  presented “Confessions of a Gothic Messiah: An Evening with Ken Russell” at the Bloor Cinema, a special screening of Russell’s 1971 film, The Devils, hosted by film critic Richard Crouse and attended by the director himself. Crouse set the tone for the evening when he remarked on his own introduction into Russell’s body of work, 1975’s Tommy. He recalled his fervent desire to see the film as a teen, one which he knew would not play in his small town for months (or perhaps even ever). He hitchhiked a couple of hundred miles to the closest theater featuring a showing. Then, as soon as it was over, he bought another ticket. And then another, until he realized those couple of hundred miles were going to seem even longer on the return trip, especially when he hadn’t told anyone in his family where he was going. Such is the obsessive, addictive, and transformative power of cinema..." Read the whole thing by Less Lee Moore here.

Read Richard's Metro article on You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger star Josh Brolin! "Early on in the shoot for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Woody Allen’s latest exploration of love and neurosis, star Josh Brolin told the director he wouldn’t try and play a thinly disguised version of Woody Allen in the movie, like Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity or even Scarlett Johansson in Scoop..." Read the whole thing here.

Read Richard's Metro interview with Let Me In director Matt Reeves! “As a young person horror films terrified me,” says Let Me In director Matt Reeve. “To this day if you were to show me a picture of Linda Blair in her Regan MacNeil getup, and I wasn’t prepared, the hair would stand up on the back of my neck and my blood would run cold..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com profile on Paul Giamatti! "In February 2005 I saw Paul Giamatti, the self confessed “funny looking leading man” and star of Sideways and the upcoming Barney’s Version, waiting at a departure lounge at LAX. It’s not unusual to see a star at Los Angeles’s biggest airport, but it is strange to see one outside the First Class Lounge, reading a tattered science fiction novel with a knapsack shaped suspiciously like a SAG award..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard Metro Weekender column on long awaited sequels! "Twenty three years have passed since the original film won an Academy Award for lead actor Michael Douglas and a Razzie for supporting actress Daryl Hannah which means that many current second year university students weren’t even born when Gordon Gekko made the words “Greed is good” famous..." Read the whole thing here!

Do you think the vampire craze on TV and in the movies is almost over? Find out what Richard thinks in the new issue of Reader's Digest, on newsstands now!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with original Batman star Adam West! "Batmans come and go. For a time Michael Keaton wore the caped suit. Then in rapid succession Val Kilmer and George Clooney donned the cowl. In recent years Christian Bale has been fitted for the Bat-Suit, but of all the actors to have played the Dark Knight, one stands head and shoulders above the rest in our imaginations. For two-and-a-half heady years—and 120 episodes—from 1966 to 1968 Adam West was Batman on the most popular show on television..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's interview with zombie king George A. Romero! They talk about the movie that made him want to direct and his latest zombie epic Survival of the Dead! "“I was dragged kicking and screaming by an aunt and uncle. I wanted to go see the new Tarzan; the new Lex Barker movie to see how he stacked up against Weissmuller and they said, ‘No! We’re going to see this,’ and I fell in love with it..." Read it here!

Read a blog from Nashville bashed blogger John Clore about LA's legendary Riot Hyatt that quotes Richard's book Big Bang Baby! "…The hotel has a rich rock and roll history. In the 1960s Doors singer Jim Morrison lived at The Riot House, causing a traffic jam one afternoon when he hung out a window by his fingertips. He wasn’t evicted for his behaviour – he was simply moved to the other side of the hotel to a room facing away from the street. In the 1970s it was Led Zeppelin’s home away from home..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com article on John Waters and his new book Role Models! "John Waters listens to Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s Monster Mash every day. He claims dancing to the song keeps him happy. 'It’s even more fun to do with Kleenex boxes on your feet,' he says. 'Howard Hughes used to do that. I was fascinated by that. I thought, ‘Why did he do that?’ until I put them on one day. Do the Monster Mash in Kleenex boxes and you will not need Prozac or any kind of drug. It will put you in a good mood even if you have chemical depression...'”

Here's Richard's Canada AM interview with Never Let Me Go star Cary Mulligan! They talk about what attracted her to this much-buzzed about role and working with Kiera Knightly! Read more about the film here and read Richard's review of the movie here! Here's a synopsis: "As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them."

Here's my Canada AM interview with Ben Affleck. The Hollywood star discusses his new film, The Town, which is premiering at TIFF. He says it is exciting to have his latest thriller at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he wants to continue making character-driven dramas. Here's more info on the movie!

Watch Richard's YouTube Conversation all-access TIFF interviews!

Indian superstar Aamir Khan

Barney's Version star Paul Giamatti

Barney's Version co-star Rachelle LeFevre

Tamara Drewe star Gemma Arterton

Click Good Neighbours star Jay Baruchel 

The High Cost of Living star Zach Braffhere to see Richard chatting with the Cadillac TIFF Insider! Part One!

Click here to read Richard's Midnight Madness picks! Bunraku! Fubar II! The Ward and more!

From Tribute.ca here are some Richard's early festival picks!

Here's Richard's Metro column on Score: A Hockey Musical! "Does a country that already has a Hockey Hall of Fame and a ubiquitous coffee chain named after a defenceman really need a singing and dancing tribute to the sport?" Read the whole thing here!

A quick blog from CKTB on Richard at the festival!

Richard does a quick hit on CP24 on Thursday September 9 at 10:30 am talking TIFF!

In St. Catharines tune into CKTB on Thursday Sept. 9 at 12:20 pm to hear Richard chat about TIFF!

Stay tuned to CTV's News Channel this afternoon to see Richard talk about TIFF's opening night film Score: The Hockey Musical!

Friday! Canada AM at 6:05 am and 7:40 am! CKTB in St. Catharines at 8:20 am! Talking TIFF and twitter embargoes!

Read Thom Ernst's Toro blog on TIFF and Richard's unfriendly attitude toward TIFF whiners!  

Read Richard's Metro column on Woody Allen for TIFF Day 2!

Richard appears live from the festival with Marcia MacMillan tonight at 9 pm on CTV's News Channel! Watch it here!

Watch Richard chatting with the Cadillac TIFF Insider here! Part Two!

Listen to Richard talking TIFF for thirty minutes with NewsTalk 1010's Ted Woloshyn on Saturday vSept. 11 from 6 to 6:30 pm!

On Monday September 13 check out Richard's special TIFF hits on Canada AM at 6:30 am and 8 am!

Read Richard's Metro column on Up and Coming stars at TIFF! Check it out here!

Tune into Moore in the Morning on NewsTalk 1010 on Tuesday September 14 morning at 7:40 am! Talking TIFF...

Read Richard's Amy Ryan TIFF interview for Metro. They talk about Jack Goes Boating and working in NYC!

Read Richard's coverage of the ET Canada party for Good Neighbours!

Some TIFF reviews from Metro! Good Neighbours. Barney's Version.

Read Richard's Metro interview with Jay Baruchel! "Take one part Twin Peaks, mix with one part Roman Polanski and you have Good Neighbours. It’s a dark comedy set in an apartment building in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce that features a murder, which star Jay Baruchel calls “if not the goriest, then the most uncomfortable death scene in any movie this year...”" Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro TIFF profile of Mongrel Media! “Playing a film at TIFF is every distributor’s dream,” says Director of Marketing and Theatrical Releasing Danish Vahidy. “Capote, Volver, Away from Her, One Week, A Prophet, An Education, The Lives Of Others. TIFF helped put all these films and Mongrel on the map.   Mongrel had one film at the 1996 TIFF (our first) and now fourteen this year...” Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's review of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger!

Read Richard's Metro TIFF breakout movie column! "Over the last 35 years the festival has run over 10,000 movies through their projectors. Obviously not all have gone on to win awards and break office records, but the festival has a surprisingly good track record at picking and showcasing hits." Read it here!

Favorite Review of the Week: Ambushed by MTV's Sheena! The whole clip is wild but check it out between the 1:14 and 1:22 mark for Richard's review of Sheena's... well, just have a look for yourself.

Favorite TIFF off-screen moments from Metro! "Throw together 258 feature films, hundreds of famous folks and a celebrity pet lounge and you have the good, the cool and the silly from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival..." Read it here!

Favorite Quotes from TIFF! “If you look at my wife’s boobs you’ll see that she doesn’t need a boob job.” Read the whole thing here!

Listen to Richard's Q&A with legendary filmmaker Ken Russell! Part One. Part Two. Part Three! Read about as well! "For the Q&A, Richard Crouse  did an excellent job with a tough interview. Up to that point in the weekend, I'd been hearing about how no one had been able to get little more than one word answers out of the man. Russell seemed to be in good spirits that evening though, or at least as good as it gets with the notoriously cantankerous eighty-three-year-old..." Read about the whole thing from The Horror Section blog here!

Check out an interview with Richard at 4.30 pm on the VoicePrint interview program, Contact! Here’s some more info: VoicePrint is a not-for-profit media organization, established in 1989, to enhance access to printed news and information by more than 5 million vision and print-restricted Canadians and those who listen to us online around the world.  We are the largest information reading service in the world. VoicePrint can be accessed on various cable and digital channels in Canada. Inside and outside of Canada, VoicePrint is available online at www.voiceprintcanada.com.

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with original; Batman star Adam West! "Batmans come and go. For a time Michael Keaton wore the caped suit. Then in rapid succession Val Kilmer and George Clooney donned the cowl. In recent years Christian Bale has been fitted for the Bat-Suit, but of all the actors to have played the Dark Knight, one stands head and shoulders above the rest in our imaginations. For two-and-a-half heady years—and 120 episodes—from 1966 to 1968 Adam West was Batman on the most popular show on television..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com interview with zombie king George A. Romero! They talk about the movie that made him want to direct and his latest zombie epic Survival of the Dead! "“I was dragged kicking and screaming by an aunt and uncle. I wanted to go see the new Tarzan; the new Lex Barker movie to see how he stacked up against Weissmuller and they said, ‘No! We’re going to see this,’ and I fell in love with it..." Read the whole thing here!

Read Richard's Metro Weekender column about Matt Dillon! "With credits like his he should be on the A-list, hobnobbing with the Toms — Hanks and Cruise — and Will Smith, and yet his brother Kevin, who plays a wannabe celebrity on Entourage, probably has a higher Q score. Here’s a look back at why Matt Dillon should be on Hollywood’s hot list..." Read then whole thing here!

Richard hosting the third annual Skyy Vodka Cocktail Countdown to the Toronto International Film Festival at the Hazelton Hotel in Toronto, August 25, 2010. Media guests were treated to a sneak peak of several of the films playing at this year's festival, some Skyy vodka cocktails created specially for the event and wardrobe and fashion tips from a panel of experts!

Watch Richard's Q&A with "The Disappearance of Alice Creed" star (and former Bond girl) Gemma Arterton here (Part One, Part Two, Part Three). We talked about why she would accept a role that sees her tied to a bed with a bag over her head for most of the movie and why she thinks Alice Creed is a feminist role model. The Q&A was shot for inclusion on the Alice Creed DVD but excerpts from the interview will be on the August 14 edition of Richard's NewsTalk 1010 radio show!

Here's a photo from the Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour panel Richard hosted at Just For Laughs in Montreal. From left to right: Richard, (and former Trailer Park Boys) Rob Welles, Mike Smith, Jean Paul Tremblay and director Ron Murphy. The new show will debut on Showcase in January! Find out more here! Photo credit: ©Dan Dion- Courtesy Just for Laughs. See  more of Dan's photos here!

Here's Richard's Canada AM interview with Jennifer Aniston! They discuss her new movie The Switch, co-starring with Jason Bateman and working with the Old Spice Guy in her next movie! Here's a synopsis for The Switch from IMDB: "An unmarried 40-year-old woman turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own."

Read Richard's cover story on Amanda Peet in the July issue of Movie Entertainment magazine! "When Amanda Peet was just three years old she made her on-stage debut, by rushing the stage from the audience during a play. “I was a big show off,” she says. Even so, the native New Yorker had a hard time convincing her family she was destined for a career in Hollywood. With no performers in her family tree the 36 year-old actress says she was considered “a little bit of a freak show” by the rest of her family..." Also check out his mini profile of Mike Myers in the Canada Day Mirth of a Nation feature in the same issue!

Here's Richard's Canada AM  "Toy Story 3" interview with Timothy Dalton and Joan Cusack! What was Joan Cusack's favorite toy as a kid? “I had a Barbie head,” says Cusack, who returns to the Toy Story franchise for the second time as the voice of Jessie, the Yodeling Cowgirl. “Just the head. It was sold like that. It was her head and her neck was like a tray and we did make-up and hair on the head. That’s all I can really remember. The rest of it was all make-believe and forts and playing house and stuff. It wasn’t so much toys back then.” Watch the interview here!

Hear Richard's interview with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse star Ashley Greene here! She play Alice Cullen,the adopted daughter of Carlisle and Esme, adoptive sister of Edward, Rosalie, and Emmett, and wife of Jasper. Her special ability is to see the future, an enhanced version of her ability to have premonitions as a human.

Also... Listen to Richard's interview with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse star Zavier Samuel here! Read about Richard's interview with Xavier at HollwoodNews.com!

Read Richard's zoomermag.com article on John Waters and his new book Role Models! "John Waters listens to Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s Monster Mash every day. He claims dancing to the song keeps him happy. 'It’s even more fun to do with Kleenex boxes on your feet,' he says. 'Howard Hughes used to do that. I was fascinated by that. I thought, ‘Why did he do that?’ until I put them on one day. Do the Monster Mash in Kleenex boxes and you will not need Prozac or any kind of drug. It will put you in a good mood even if you have chemical depression...'”

Read about Richard's top five weather movies! From the Weather Network website! "What's better than the weather? Well, the combination of weather and cinema of course! From an animated flick to a documentary, film critic and author Richard Crouse tells us about his top 5 favourite weather-related movies ever. What films do you think made the list? ..."

Read Richard's Metro column on actors who turned down famous roles! "Connery was the first choice to play Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings series but said no. “I didn’t understand the script when they sent it to me,” he said. “Bobbits? Hobbits? New Line apparently wanted him so badly they offered him a huge chunk of the of worldwide box office receipts. That “no” cost him almost $400 million...”

Read Richard's Metro article on the toys the stars of Toy Story 3 had as kids! "Toy Story 3 is about toys. Some familiar, like the hilariously vain Ken doll voiced by Michael Keaton, others less so, like Mr. Pricklepants, a small stuffed toy with a deep baritone supplied by Timothy Dalton. The stars have come out to play toys in the film, but what toys did they play with as children?.."

Read Richard's Metro column on the Karate Kid alumni here! "Producer Jerry Weintraub initially rejected Morita, claiming he was too well known as Arnold on Happy Days. Determined to win the role, Morita grew a beard, mimicked his uncle’s Japanese accent and screen tested. “When Jerry saw it, he said, 'That’s what I want — a goddamn actor,’ not realizing it was Pat,” said the late actor’s wife Evelyn."

Read Richard Metro column featuring director Vincenzo Natali's five favorite sci films here! "Director Vincenzo Natali doesn’t just make sci-fi movies, he’s also a fan. 'True science fiction is about ideas. It’s a mirror that reflects on the present,' he says..."

Read Richard's interview with "Shutter Island" writer Dennis Lehane here! "Given the Hollywood success novelist Dennis Lehane has had in recent years you’d expect him to live in the 90210 area code. No dice, says the blunt speaking author of Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island (which comes to DVD and Blu Ray June 8)..."

Read Richard's Metro column on video game movies! "Uwe Boll has made a career of adapting video games for the big screen. The German filmmaker, nicknamed “the Master of Error” for his sloppily-made pictures, brought us House of the Dead (No. 56 on IMDB’s Bottom 100) and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (five per cent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes) among other crimes against cinema..."

Read Richard's Metro Michael Caine interview here! "Caine laughs, “'I dunno. They say, ‘You’re an icon now.' I say, ‘I don’t know how to do that.' There’s no lessons. There’s no special icon bar where you go, meet up and learn what to do. I just consider myself lucky...'”

Check out Richard's interview with James Cameron from zoomermag.com! Read it here. "The man who made the most technologically advanced movie to ever hit the big screen has just hung up on me. Not on purpose. Calling from his car, James Cameron was defeated by some very simple machinery—his cellphone..."

Also... Check out Richard's article on movie phone apps from Metro! "The whole process of locating, watching and enjoying films has been streamlined by a series of movie apps that range in price from free to $2.99..." Read it!

Check out the story on Iavn and Jason Reitman in the June issue of Zoomer magazine! Richard chimnes in to the story (written by Kim Izzo) on the differences and similarities in styles of the father and son filmmakers. "They share a sharp eye and strong storytelling sense but differ in the way they tell those stories..." For more pick up the magazine on newsstands now! While you're at it check out the zoomermag.com site!

Read Richard zoomermag.com interview with "Shutter Island" writer Dennis Lehane here!

Read about Richard's Q&A with "Cyrus" directors Jay and Mark Duplass on the One Movie Five Views website! "Cyrus is the latest film from sibling-directors Jay and Mark Duplass.  Their first feature was a quirky road-trip movie, The Puffy Chair (2006), that looked at romantic relationships.  Their second feature, Baghead (2008), was an alt-horror film.  Their latest, Cyrus, is a love triangle with a twist.  The Duplass brothers, (33-year old Mark and 37-year old Jay), were in Toronto last Tuesday for a screening of Cyrus at the Varsity.  It was directly followed by a Q&A, hosted by Canada AM’s Richard Crouse...." To read the whole thing click here!

Dennis Hopper dies at 74

I originally posted this on Dennis Hopper's 74th birthday, but today, in light of his passing I thought I'd share it again. Think I'll stay in and watch "Easy Rider" tonight...

I was in Los Angeles last March when Dennis Hopper received his star on the Walk of Fame but decided not to go down and check out the ceremony. It was being billed as his last public appearance and something inside me didn't want to see him wasted away and frail. As someone who has witnessed, up close and personal, the terrible effects of cancer I thought it would be too much and preferred to remember him as the stoned Billy from “Easy Rider” or “Blue Velvet’s” unhinged Frank Booth. But one photograph from the event made me regretful I didn't make the trip to Hollywood Boulevard (it’s in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theater) that afternoon... To read the rest of Richard's remembrance of Dennis Hopper click here.

Read Richard Metro column featuring director Vincenzo Natali's five favorite sci films here! "Director Vincenzo Natali doesn’t just make sci-fi movies, he’s also a fan. 'True science fiction is about ideas. It’s a mirror that reflects on the present,' he says..."

Read Richard's interview with "Shutter Island" writer Dennis Lehane here! "Given the Hollywood success novelist Dennis Lehane has had in recent years you’d expect him to live in the 90210 area code. No dice, says the blunt speaking author of Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island (which comes to DVD and Blu Ray June 8)..."

Read Richard's Metro column on video game movies! "Uwe Boll has made a career of adapting video games for the big screen. The German filmmaker, nicknamed “the Master of Error” for his sloppily-made pictures, brought us House of the Dead (No. 56 on IMDB’s Bottom 100) and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (five per cent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes) among other crimes against cinema..."

Here's Richard's Canada AM interview with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time star Jake Gyllenhaal shot recently in England. They discuss promting the film and Gyllenhaal's dislike of ostritches! More info from Canada AM's website: "Actor Jake Gyllenhaal's new film 'Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time' is an epic adventure laced with family intrigue, lavish settings and plenty of swashbuckling. Gyllenhaal was in London recently to talk about his experience on set."

Watch Richard's Canada AM interview (shot on location in Verona, Italy) with "Letters to Juliet" star Amanda Seyfried! In the interview they discuss the famed Secretaries of Juliet and Seyfried's impressions of Italy! Read Richard's review of the movie here!

April 27 at Toronto's Eaton Centre, Sunnybrook Foundation and the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO held the first annual Rock Band Media Challenge!  The event was intended to kick-off and raise awareness for Sunnybrook’s latest fundraiser, ‘Funday Sunday: Toronto’s family fest’ a city-wide, family friendly event to be held November 28, 2010 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Richard and fellow CTVers Kris Abel Michele Dube and  Bill Hutcheson rocked the Centre with their rendition of White Wedding! See photos form the event here! Watch it here!

Part Two of Richard's interview with the Movie Morons is here! Here's some info on the Morons: "We're a podcast for movie lovers. We want to fill your ipod or ipod facsimiles full to the brim with interviews, reviews and in-depth conversations about movies. We'll talk about anything from the sub-genre of underwater movies to the films of Francois Truffaut. As Movie Morons, we aren't interested in regurgitating plot and recounting the dating habits of actors. We're in it for the pure, non-snobby love of film." This episode: "You can stop holding your breath now. Part two of the interview with The Beloved Richard Crouse is finally here. Rejoice as you find out why the hell someone would create a fake movie critic when there are so many kicking around on the Planet Earth."

Read Richard's Metro Michael Caine interview here! "Caine laughs, “'I dunno. They say, ‘You’re an icon now.' I say, ‘I don’t know how to do that.' There’s no lessons. There’s no special icon bar where you go, meet up and learn what to do. I just consider myself lucky...'”

Read Richard's Metro "Robin Hood" column here! "Robin Hood comes in all shapes and sizes. According to the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (yes, there is such a thing), the 700-year-old hero of Sherwood Forest has been the subject of one of the earliest Legoland building systems, the inspiration for the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow and a flour company spokesman..."

Read Richard's Metro interview with The Trotsky star Colm Feore here! "To me it seemed very springy,” he says. “It has a bouncy intelligence to it. Particularly since it came from young people. Right now I am surrounded by young people. I have my kids and I think, ‘What would flatter them in reflection?’ If they see themselves as smart and able to change their world, this is a message I would like to be able to send. There is something heroically quixotic about the way Jay’s character forces his way down his path...”

Richard hosted a Q&A with The Trotsky stars Jay Baruchel, Colm Feore and Saul Rubinek in Toronto recently! Read about it here! "His brilliant sense of movement exiting some scenes drew praise from Toronto's most renowned Film Critic Richard Crouse, who hosted this evening's Q&A.  Believe it or not, Baruchel idolizes Rowan Atkinson of Mr. Bean fame and as an afterthought one can see that influence in his animated mannerisms.  When asked about his fame from an audience member, he indicated that he is proudly Canadian, planning to continue residing in Montreal as he always has.  He assured us that he will continue to support and make Canadian films and let the world know about the wonderful films being made in our country..."

Read Richard's Metro interview with The Trotsky star Jay Baruchel here! “I had this overriding idea that because he’s such an odd bird, there was room for some physical comedy and that’s why I walk out of every scene like a cartoon character...”

Read Richard's Metro column on director cameos in movies! "Forty-four minutes in, there is a scene with a woman in a dress speaking to the police on a train, a woman rumoured to be the director in drag..."

Check out Richard's latest zoomermag.com article. This week he chats with Paul Gross about his hair! "“I’d go into the 7/11 to get milk and I looked unhinged,” says Gross. “The good people of Osoyoos [located in the southern part of the Okanagan Valley near British Columbia's border with Washington state] had never seen anything like this so they wouldn’t even sell me milk at the 7/11...”"

Check out Richard's interview with James Cameron from zoomermag.com! Read it here. "The man who made the most technologically advanced movie to ever hit the big screen has just hung up on me. Not on purpose. Calling from his car, James Cameron was defeated by some very simple machinery—his cellphone..."

Also... Check out Richard's article on movie phone apps from Metro! "The whole process of locating, watching and enjoying films has been streamlined by a series of movie apps that range in price from free to $2.99..." Read it!

Check out the latest Movie Morons podcast! From their website: "The only Movie Moron worth a damn is back! ‘The Beloved’ Richard Crouse joins Mike ‘The Professor’ Longfield and James The Giantsquid for a chat about the state of film criticism. Richard also talks about his own career and why he does what he does. PLUS: Train Wreck Man Child talks to The Maltese Falcon about some notable new releases in the wonderful world of home video. Find out why Train Wreck wants to let loose the hog. Hint: It has nothing to do with nudity and everything to do with Nicolas Cage."

Just in time for the DVD and Blu Ray release of Avatar come my interviews with key members of the film making team.

Watch Part One, Part Two or Part Three of my interview with James Cameron! In Parts One and Two we discuss Avatar and its success. In Part Three we talk about The Terminator!

Also... Watch Part One of my interview with Paul R. Frommer, the film's alien language creator here here! Watch part two here!

Also... Watch Part One of my interview with Avatar producer Jon Landau here. Watch Part Two here!

To see a video of the First Weekend Club Genie Talk Back Richard hosted on Sunday April 11th at the Drake Hotel in Toronto click here! Here's some info in the event:  This panel of Genie-nominatedguests included Kari Skogland (Director of Fifty Dead Men Walking),Charles Officer (Director of Nurse.Fighter.Boy), Chris Landreth (Ryan) and Brett Gaylor(Director of RIP: A Remix Manifesto). Read about the event here!

Check out Richard's interview with The Back Up Plan stars Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin. They talk about their new movie, and how having children influenced how they played their roles in the film.

Read Richard's review of The Back Up Plan here!

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Check out Richard's "Canadian Contradiction" cover feature on Rachel McAdams in the April issue of Movie Entertainment Magazine! "After years of figure skating at ice carnivals, working at McDonald’s in southwestern Ontario, studying drama at York University and appearing in forgettable TV shows (Shotgun Love Dolls, anyone?), the movie that put her on the map was Mean Girls, a smart and funny exposé of high school caste systems. She modeled the flamboyantly wicked Regina George on Alec Baldwin’s performance in Glengarry Glen Ross. By spitting out lines like, “So you think you’re pretty?” through a cobra smile, she won critical praise and very nearly stole the show..." To read the whole thing, click here!

Read Richard's "Nightmare on Elm Street" Metro column here! "Bela Lugosi is the actor most closely associated with Count Dracula, but he is certainly not the only one. More than 200 others have played old toothy over the years including mister tall, dark and gruesome Christopher Lee, who played the blood sucker eleven times..."

Check out Richard's latest zoomermag.com article. This week he chats with Paul Gross about his hair! "“I’d go into the 7/11 to get milk and I looked unhinged,” says Gross. “The good people of Osoyoos [located in the southern part of the Okanagan Valley near British Columbia's border with Washington state] had never seen anything like this so they wouldn’t even sell me milk at the 7/11...”"

Check out Richard's interview with James Cameron from zoomermag.com! Read it here. "The man who made the most technologically advanced movie to ever hit the big screen has just hung up on me. Not on purpose. Calling from his car, James Cameron was defeated by some very simple machinery—his cellphone..."

Check out Richard's Metro column on Zie Saldana here! "She may have become a bold face name sucking up to the fanboys, but she hasn’t always played comic-book characters, giant blue aliens or iconic sci fi characters..."

Also... Check out Richard's article on movie phone apps from Metro! "The whole process of locating, watching and enjoying films has been streamlined by a series of movie apps that range in price from free to $2.99..." Read it!

"In Chloe, the new psychological thriller from Canadian director Atom Egoyan, Amanda Seyfried plays an escort hired by Catherine (Julianne Moore) to test her husband’s (Liam Neeson) fidelity. Following starring roles in Mean Girls, Mama Mia and the popular HBO show Big Love, this is her first real adult part. It’s a complicated and showy role for the twenty-five-year-old actress, and she credits Egoyan with pushing her to deepen the character by exploring every facet of Chloe’s life..." To read the rest of Richard's Metro interview with Amanda Seyfried and Atom Egoyan click here.

Hear Richard and "The Runaways" director Floria Sigismondi discuss adapting the story of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie for the screen,working with Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon and interviewing legendary rock impresario Kim Fowley.
Part One here.
Part Two here.

Also... Listen to Richard's interview with Cherie Currie, singer of The Runaways, portrayed by Dakota Fanning in the movie.
Part One here.
Part Two here.

"In The Bounty Hunter, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler work on the borders of their comfort zones. Butler is the titular character, a former cop so down on his luck he takes a gig tracking down his ex-wife (and alleged real-life girlfriend) Aniston, for a payday of $5,000..." Read the rest of Richard's Metro interview with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler here!

Watch Richard's Canada AM interview with Gerard Butler here. They discuss his career shift from doing primarily action roles in films like 300 and Tomb Raider to comedy in The Ugly Truth and The Bounty Hunter.

Watch Richard's Canada AM interview with Remember Me star Robert Pattinson here! They discuss the new film and the challenges of filming in New York City.

Watch Richard's Canada AM interview with The Ghost Writer star Pierce Brosnan here! They discuss working with Roman Polanski and the film's eerie ripped from the headlines feel.

Watch Richard's post Oscar wrap up with Marci Ien!

Watch Richard's other post Oscar wrap up with Canada AM's Seamus O'Regan and e-talk's Ben Mulroney!

Richard with music and film legend Kris Kristofferson at the Victoria Film Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, Jan - Feb. 2010. See more photos and read Richard's blog here!

Read about Richard's interview with Kristofferson here in an article from The Times Colonist!

Read about Richard at the festival here in another article from The Times Colonist!

Read a festival wrap up piece by Michael D. Reid here.

Listen to excerpts from the interview here! And here!

Introducing director Terry Gilliam at the American Express advance gala screening of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus at the Carlu in Toronto, December 11, 2009.

Chatting with director Terry Gilliam at the American Express advance gala screening of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus at the Carlu in Toronto, December 11, 2009. (Photo courtesy of Richard Budman at shot7.com)

WATCH THIS! Check out the video of Richard and Metro writer Steve Gow choosing their Oscar picks on metronews.ca! Read a transcript here!

ALSO! Check out zoomermag.com for two of Richard's Oscar articles! Zoomer Oscar Nominees and Barbara Walters Says Goodbye to Her Oscar Specials!

Read Richard's Oscar Primer from the latest issue of "Reader's Digest"  here!

Read Part Two of Richard's guttersnipe interview with Rachel Fox here!

Check out Richard's Metro interview with Woody Harrelson, star of the film "Defendor"! Read Richard's Metro review of the movie here!

Also... Check out this new interview with Richard from the Victoria Film Festival by Rachel Fox on guttersnipe.

Pete Hammond of the Los Angeles Times and critic Richard Crouse share their predictions on Canada AM, with the former saying 'The Blind Side' was the biggest surprise for best picture, while the latter says the surprise was that 'Star Trek' was not on the list. Watch it here!

Check out Richard's zoomermag.com columns!
The most recent: The movies to look forward to in 2010.
Archived: Best of the Decade. Alternative Christmas movies.

Buckle up, movie fans! With the first podcast of 2010, the Movie Morons present a ruthless TOP TEN OF ’09 SMACKDOWN.

From the Movie Moron's website:

"In one corner, Richard Crouse. He’s a world renown Canadian film critic and interviewer who can bench press 300 pounds.

"In the other corner, Michael ‘The Professor’ Longfield. A man who is half an essay away from academic credentials."

Click here to listen!

To see Richard discuss "Christmas Movies for People Who Don't Like Christmas Movies" on Canada AM click here.

Also... Read Richard's zoomermag.com article on alternative Christmas movies for the whole family (except grandma!). Click here.

Also... Read some of Richard's picks to get you in the mood for the Christmas season here. (PDF file, flip to pages 25 - 26)

Check out Richard's sit down with Zac Efron and director Richard Linklater as they discuss the film Me & Orson Welles. Watch it here. Here's some info on the film: Me and Orson Welles (2009) is a period-drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar, where he becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

Also... Check out Richard's sit down with Robert De Niro as they discuss the film Everybody's Fine. Watch it here!

Check out the audio from the November 14, 2009 New York City "Everybody's Fine" Press Conference with Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell and Kirk Jones. Part One. Part Two. Here's some info on the film:"A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children." Watch for my one-on-one interview with Robert De Niro coming soon on Canada AM!

Follow My Tweets! "Listening to the New Moon trailer for my radio show. Fave line: "What! Am I the wrong kind of monster for you!"

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Also... While on-line check out my Canada AM interview with Viggo Mortensen and his young co-star, Kodi Smit-McPhee of "The Road"!

Wake up early Canada! Richard was on Canada AM's Early Edition with Marci Ien to discuss the Michael Jackson movie "This is It" and then again at 7:15 am on Canada AM. Sleep in? Watch it here.

See Richard's Canada AM interview with The Dammed United star Michael Sheen here.

Listen to Richard's interview with Chris Rock regarding the documentary "Good Hair"... Part One. Part Two. Part Three.

Listen to Catherine O'Hara discuss working with Spike Jonze, working with the Wild Things and improvising on the set of "Where the Wild Things Are"... Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five.

Watch Richard's Canada AM interview with Cairo Time star Patricia Clarkson. Here's some info on the film from IMBD: "In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares." Click here for more info. Click here to watch the interview.

Watch Richard's interview with Ricky Gervais as they discuss The Invention of Lying on Canada AM here.

Check out Richard's interview with Whip It star Ellen Page on CTV's Canada AM. Here's the synopsis from Wikipedia: "A misfit girl named Bliss (Ellen Page) is constantly being pressured to enter beauty pageants by her mother. However, she feels this isn't something she's meant to do, and joins a roller derby league instead. She feels that these girls are her new heroes. She has no idea how to skate but Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), one of her teammates, tells her to be her own hero. This is a recurring theme in the movie. She then is determined to join their roller derby league. She realizes that she skates well, and in an effort to join the league, tells her parents she will be taking SAT preparation classes. Her mom believes her and is very happy she is taking some initiative in her life. When her mother finds out, everything will change." Watch the interview HERE!

Watch Richard's TIFF wrap up on CTV's News Channel here.

Read Cody, A Celebrity in Her Own Write here.

Read A Tribute to Heath here.

Read A Softer Side of Clive Owen here.

Read Richard's capsule review for The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus here.

Read Fear & Loathing at TIFF blog entry here.

Read Cera Hopes "Revolt" Will Be Inspiring here.

Read Winona Prefers the Art of Film Over Show Biz here.

Read Richard's blog from Wednesday here.

Read From Stage to Screen here.

Read Seyfried's Dual Roles here.

Read English Reimaginings of French Films here.

Read Brown Changed Me: Michael Caine here.

Read Richard's review of Crackie here.

Read Richard's review of Reel Injun here.

Read Defendor's Stars Hit the Town here.

Read Richard's Leslie, My Name is Evil review here.

The TIFF Party Monster Hand!

Watch Richard with The Wine Ladies! On Talking with the Stars they discuss TIFF.

Read Richard's 2nd R.O.M.F. blog entry here.

Read Richard's R.O.M.F. blog entry here. 

Read Baruchel's Passion is Canadian Film here.

Watch Richard on CTV's News Channel discussing TIFF with Marcia MacMillian here.

Watch as the TIFFinsider asks Richard about his favorite TIFF interview ever! See it here. Here's Part Two of the TIFFinsider interview. Here Richard talks about some early festival favorites! Watch Part Three here!

Read Richard's review of Chloe here.

Read The Versatile Ms. Clarkson from Metro here.

New! Check out Richard's promo for the Independent Scene web series! (New episodes are on the way!)

Also... Richard makes an appearance with the Movie Morons! Hosted by IMDB Mike and Encyclopedia Chris, this episode features a very special guest. Famed suit-wearing, cool-haircut-sporting film critic Richard Crouse joins us for YOU’RE AN IDIOT IF YOU DON’T LIKE THIS MOVIE. Listen to the podcast here.

Also... Check out Richard's interview with Emile Hirsch of Taking Woodstock here!

Check out Richard's interviews with the original Munchkins from The Wizard Of Oz here (as pictured):

Karl Slover, the "Munchkin with the wondrous laugh."

Margaret Pellegrini, the Dancing Flower Pot Munchkin.

Ruth Duccini, a villager Munchkin.

Jerry Maren, leader of the Lollipop Guild.

Also... More with Karl and Margaret.

Also... Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft.

Also... Wizard of Oz Tavern on the Green Party

Also... Excerpts from the Wizard of Oz press day!

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