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This week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet actor Alana Hawley Purvis. In \u201cRange Roads,\u201d now available on Super Channel and to rent or buy on VOD, she plays an actress who tries to reconnect with her estranged brother after their parents die in a car accident. But there\u2019s a mystery as well. Frankie finds a life insurance policy that names a woman whose name she doesn\u2019t recognize. What\u2019s her connection to the family?\n\nWe\u2019ll also meet award-winning comedian Leslie Seiler. Leslie is from Halifax and now lives in Los Angeles. The focus of her mew comedy album, \u201cCheck For Snakes,\u201d is moving to L.A. in 2016 and experiencing the Trump and Covid era from the perspective of someone from Canada. We talk about her comedy and her side gig\u2026 decorating Christmas trees for Jennifer Lopez. \n\nThen we meet David Cronenberg. If it is true that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Cronenberg must be basking in the reflected glow of some pretty serious film fawning. The OG of Body Horror\u2019s influence can be seen in lurid detail in recent movies like the Palme d'Or winner \u201cTitane\u201d and Natalie Portman\u2019s biological thriller \u201cAnnihilation\u201d among many others.\n\nThe director of \u201cEastern Promises,\u201d \u201cA History of Violence,\u201d \u201cThe Fly\u201d and \u201cVideodrome,\u201d among many others, returns to theatres after an eight-year break with \u201cCrimes of the Future,\u201d an all-star story of eroticized human evolution starring Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen and L\xe9a Seydoux.\n\nSharing a name with a movie the director made in 1970 and based on a script he wrote in the early 2000s, \u201cCrimes of the Future\u201d takes place in a time when "Accelerated Evolution Syndrome" has all but eliminated pain in most humans.