Richard Crouse (born May 26, 1963 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) is a television personality and host on Canadian television and news. He currently hosts In Short on Bravo, was the host of Reel to Real from 1998 to 2008, and is the regular film critic for CTV's Canada AM and CTV News Channel.Crouse is a regular pundit for Star TV's Best! Movies! Ever! and the host of The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen on Rogers Television. He is also a frequent guest on many Canadian radio and television shows including CBC Radio One's Go. In April 2008, his new Saturday afternoon radio show, featuring movie reviews and news, began its run on Newstalk 1010 in Toronto.Crouse can be heard twice a week as the in-house movie critic on Newstalk 1010's morning show Moore in the Morning. He is also the author of six books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen and Reel Winners. His work has been featured in The Globe and Mail and the National Post, as well as several literary and music magazines.In September 2008, his new book, Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen was released through ECW Press.
Always wears his hair slicked back, funky horn-rimmed glasses and a tailored suit.
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It used to be that you'd announce a Tom Cruise movie and people would be lined up around the block to see it, and that no longer holds true unless the movie happens to be called 'Mission Impossible'.
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I think Will Ferrell is one of the bravest comedic actors working today, someone willing to do anything for a laugh. Trouble is, I often don't laugh.
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I don't think it's fair to charge audiences full price for the screenings of 'Captain Phillips'. While watching this I was reminded of the old Monster Truck ads that bellowed, 'You pay for the whole seat but you'll only need the edge!' I was dangling off the front of my seat from about the thirty minute mark.
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[on 'You're Next!'] I don't know what it says about me, but I really liked it. It's disturbing, violent and without any redeeming social value. But I enjoyed sitting in the theatre with my hands over my eyes, afraid of what I might see next. I'm not usually a fan of head trauma, but from what I saw as I peeked through my fingers, it worked well. There is a Manson Family aspect to the story that really creeped me out - a lesson in survivalism to be sure, but keep in mind how it works out for everyone. I think I'll stick to calling 911.
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Fact
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He has been the film critic for CTV's Canada AM since 2004.
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Has written a complete history of movie awards to be released in September 2005. Titled Reel Winners this "triviapedia" covers movie awards from the 1920s through to the 2004 Academy Awards.
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He is a contributing writer to a new anthology on Canadian horror films. He wrote a chapter on the Bob Clark film Black Christmas, a movie widely regarded to be the inspiration for the slasher flick Halloween.
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Globe and Mail writer James Adams said that he has the "most famous hair on Canadian television."
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During the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival he conducted 122 interviews with actors, directors and writerswho attended the event.
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Made his debut as a screen actor in the short film Soiled, shown at the 1999 On the Fly Festival in Toronto.
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Canadian comedy legends The Royal Canadian Airfarce did a parody of Crouse and Reel to Real in December, 2001.
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First job was as "junior announcer" at CKBW Radio in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Donald Sutherland had held the same job twenty years before.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Reelside
2015
TV Series documentary executive producer - 5 episodes
Reel to Real
1992
TV Series producer
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Reelside
2015
TV Series documentary developer - 2 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Defective
2017
post-production
Host Joshua Beckett
Exit Humanity
2011
Zombie
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hellmouth
2014
special thanks
Ejecta
2014
special thanks
Septic Man
2013
special thanks
Exit Humanity
2011
very special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Waiting for Ishtar
2017
Documentary completed
Himself
Black Christmas Legacy
2015
Video short
Himself
Katie Chats
2014-2015
TV Series
Himself
Canada A.M.
2005-2014
TV Series
Himself - Movie Correspondent / Himself
Red Alert
2014
Documentary short
Himself
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
2013
Documentary
Himself
The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett
2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Meat Eugene!
2010
Video short
Himself
Independent Scene
2010
TV Series
Himself, Host
Maple Flavour Films
2008
Documentary
Himself
Best! Movies! Ever!
2006-2007
TV Series
Himself - Film Critic & Author / Himself / Himself - Film Critic & Actor / ...
Space Top 10 Countdown
2007
TV Series
Himself
Red Carpet Diary
2005
TV Series
Himself - Host
Nightmare in Canada: Canadian Horror on Film
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Reel to Real
1992
TV Series
Himself - Host
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Canadian Screen Award
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series
Reelside (2015)
Known for movies
Nightmare in Canada: Canadian Horror on Film (2004) as Himself
$13 Million
