Volkmar Richter
About Volkmar Richter
Volkmar Richter is a former producer for CBC Radio, first in Toronto, then in Vancouver. He is a life-long movie fan ever since he was taken to his first as a boy in a small town in Austria. It was an American swashbuckler that he's been watching out for ever since.
MOVIES: ordinary life goes askew in White Noise, plus an artist fights the opioid sellers and a gay joins the Marines
Also a frenetic thriller from South Korea
MOVIES about Steven Spielberg's boyhood, Daniel Craig as a wily detective and a lovable donkey on the road
Also: A space-science adventure, women versus the Taliban and a prairie gothic with cannibalism
This week's best and worst distractions: movies
Also a fine Canadian film about love and a star shoemaker's charmed life
MOVIES take us back to Wakanda, to the Montreal underworld and to more Indigenous cinema
Also to re-unite two stars and watch the work of two sons of another star
MOVIES: With Anthony Hopkins, then Harry Styles, and then a mystery of religious faith
Also Enola Holmes matches her brother's detection skills and a country music legend returns
MOVIES: a must-see from Ireland, a gem of Canadiana and a twisty film noir from South Korea
Also uncovering a hidden story about slavery in the US and this year's exorcism movie
MOVIES: Big stars in a rom-com, an action frenzy and a thriller in the U.S. medical system
Also Bill Gibson's sci-fi on screen, Buffy Sainte-Marie's own story and the male gaze in the movies
MOVIES: Great acting around music, an anti-war classic remade and a quirky environmental film
Also a repeat look at a top-winner from Cannes that's going wider this week
Stars and more stars in Amsterdam and some more highlighted festival picks
Notably films about war in Ukraine, Muslim discord, peach farmers and a wily donkey
MOVIES: That gay rom-com, a Halloween favorite alive again and a rarity: a new western
Also a few picks at the Vancouver International Film Festival, one about climate-change radicals