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: Three find art in tales of robbery, contract killing and maybe even murder
A scene from Anatomy of a Fall
A masterpiece from Martin Scorsese
They're about an obsessive save-the-world missionary and an immigrant mother-daughter conflict
MOVIES: Nancy Pelosi's daughter grills Capitol Hill rioters on what they were thinking
Also a re-worked E.A.Poe Classic, Karen Kain's Swan Song and secrets from Joan Baez
MOVIES: Canadians figure large this week including drag queens and visitors from the future and France
Also films on homelessness and backpacking women among raucus Australians
New Movies–Wildfires, Climate Change, Bigotry Against Refugees, Even A.I.
And the usual entertainment too with music, murder mystery and Paw Patrol
MOVIES: Dumb Money, funny and caustic about the stock market, plus Chinese and Indigenous tales you should see
Also a gay vs those brawny Lucha Libre wrestlers and The Expendables still at it. This scene is from Dumb Money
MOVIES: Kenneth Branagh solving a lesser-known Agatha Christie mystery, plus Canadian, African and Afghan stories
They're about corruption. immigrant struggles and gay teenage angst. This scene is from A Haunting in Venice
Toronto and Vancouver International Film Festivals – Monster, Bloom and Seagrass
And a few others to watch for In Toronto and Vancouver
MOVIES: Denzel gets violent but still charms, plus a number of quality films just arrived
Including a snowy dystopia, a crook explaining himself, a devious 12-year-old and more Star Wars
MOVIES: two that say follow your dream and two episodes to kick off a new Star Wars series
Also, you might be interested in these new features: Golda Meir tested by a war she didn't see coming, a legend from Tibet and more about Warner Brothers