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: Mean Girls, a favorite remade, but not as good, plus five others new in town
They deliver action, mountain culture, Freud in imaginary conversation and a poet on race
MOVIES: They've come in twos: award candidates, dystopian visions, and gay love stories
And two are Paul Mescal films. Not this one: it's American Fiction
Movies for the holidays offer a whole range from nice to grim
Winners, fighters, survivors, Black women, the Holocaust: they're all here
MOVIES: Willy Wonka is back and expected to be huge this holiday season, plus four others
They are another Chicken Run, two films with women's issues and some musicians you should know
MOVIES: Leonard Bernstein revealed in Maestro, Eddie Murphy's first Christmas movie and a peek into the Whistler Film Festival
Also an unusual road to better race relations in the U.S.
MOVIES: American Thanksgiving brings out big titles like Napoleon, Wish and May December
Also: a visit with the super rich, Nicolas Cage at his best, comedy from Finland and, for us, healing Canada's Indigenous
MOVIES: What came before the Hunger Games; can soccer's big losers turn things around and what about the Rolling Stones?
Also a scathing look at North Korea and animated fun with Adam Sandler
MOVIES: A sweet one for the holidays, Denys Arcand on our woke conflicts and a new one from Marvel
Also: extreme pursuit of fame and re-imagining your life in high school