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On this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet director Chandler Levack, whose debut feature film, \u201cI Like Movies,\u201d will be in theatres on March 10. The film festival hit is based on her experiences working at a Blockbuster Video in Burlington, Ontario in the early 2000s. It\u2019s the story of how movie obsessive Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) allows his love of film, dream of attending NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts, and anxiety, alienate the most important people in his life. Part work-place comedy\u2014think \u201cHigh Fidelity\u201d only set in a video store\u2014part character study, \u201cI Like Movies\u201d is sweet-natured, funny film that digs deep to make us feel empathy for Lawrence, a socially awkward character who hides his real feelings behind a facade of bluster and pretension. Strong performances and a genuinely heartfelt script make this take on adolescent angst a winning debut for Levack.\n\nThen, C. J. Tudor, bestselling author of \u201cThe Burning Girls,\u201d \u201cThe Other People,\u201d \u201cThe Hiding Place\u201d and \u201cThe Chalk Man,\u201d which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, stops by. Over the years she has worked as a copywriter, television presenter, who asked Tim Robbins an embarrassing questions, a voice-over artist, and dog walker. Today we\u2019ll talk about some of those jobs and her new novel, \u201cThe Drift,\u201d a heart-pounding new novel about three ordinary people who risk everything for a chance at redemption.\n\nAnd finally, we spend time with \u201cIn the Key of Dale\u201d author Benjamin Lefebvre. He is a writer based in Kitchener, Ont. His edited books include the anthology \u201cThe L.M. Montgomery Reader,\u201d which won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers, and an edition of L.M. Montgomery's rediscovered final book, \u201cThe Blythes Are Quoted.\u201d