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: Summer action, a good summer read, Jane Austen, Leonard Cohen's most famous song
Also Jane Austen's Persuasion, Mrs. Harris's fantasy, a growing up tale and a dog tale among cats
MOVIES: Minions outdone by a mollusk named Marcel and the Regency era lives again with Mr. Malcolm's List
Also: current world events foreseen in a thriller and and life in Paris as we rarely see it
MOVIES: A strong line up this week with Elvis, Emma, The Long Rider and more
Including The Man from Toronto, Inuit girls battling aliens and Ethan Hawke as “The Grabber”
MOVIES: a Toy Story off-shoot, effervescent music in New Orleans and Peter Pan's story reimagined
Also two fantasies about Big Pharma and two British comedies
Top Gun soars; Emergency kicks racism through teen comedy and Memoria spins a cool mystery
Also: the joys of community bookstores and Anthony Hopkins in one of his lesser works
Your Downton Abbey friends are back; a Parisian couple struggles with old age and a visionary offers wise words to live by
Also: a cryptic view of Men, an Indigenous fight for land, and mild fun x2 from Disney
Movies: Colin Firth in wartime, a French student and the abortion law and Cinderella's most alternate version ever
Also: a nifty modern western and contrasting documentaries: Navalny and Doug & the Slugs
Disney x2: Its latest Marvel movie and its loudest critic, plus more true stories
Also a charmer from France, an immigrant success from Nova Scotia and a mass shooting from Australia
Movies with celebrated origins: a popular franchise, a star classical conductor and a Canadian novel
Also: a vacation puzzle in Mexico and modern young love in Paris