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: No new blockbusters this week, but a lively mix of smaller films
About novelists, re-connecting Asians (e.g Joy Ride), bank robbers and sex traffickers
MOVIES: Indiana Jones is back but not at his best, Korea sends a fine action film and PTSD is treated
Also: Nimona moves up from a graphic novel and Making Time ponders horology
MOVIES: More fun from Wes Anderson, LGBT issues felt by a gym teacher and a gem from Iran
Also: the action film of the year so far, musings on jazz and Jennifer Lawrence getting raunchy
MOVIES: Surprise then, bigger now, The Full Monty is back. The Flash and a new Pixar film too.
Also the man who built Marvel, a different Holocaust story and more.
MOVIES the science of wildfires (how timely), a legal pioneer, and two art variations
Also a drama about political terror intruding in a woman's quiet life
MOVIES: The best animated film ever, to some, a searing residential schools drama and a couple of tales out in nature
Also a political documentary unusual for our time: it's positive
MOVIES: The Little Mermaid grown too big, two looks at family dynamics and remembering Yogi
Also standard visits from Robert De Niro and Gerard Butler. This photo is of The Little Mermaid.
Movies go Fast and Furious yet again and elsewhere culturally sensitive and socially activist
With side trips into horror, obsession, a garden and basketball. This photo is from Fast X
MOVIES about a Canadian success that crashed, a re-covened book club by four acting icons and mental health cutbacks decried
Also a science fiction for children, a Manga knock-off and more
MOVIES: Bios of Michael J. Fox and hockey badman Harold Ballard, plus a big new Marvel
Also two about climate change, an Indigenous woman's quest and an unlikely Carmen