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 to save Chinatown, grow up via Judy Blume, re-work a children's classic and take on polite society
Also reality with a legal failure, a champion's story, Ukraine and modern witches
MOVIES with a black composer in old France, Little Richard in early rock and roll and a crime thriller's pros and cons
Also looking ahead to Canada's premier festival of documentary films
MOVIES: How to Blow up a Pipeline
Also: a mushy romance, Jewish revenge and Toni Collette as Mafia Mamma
MOVIES with old friends like Jackie Chan and the Mario Brothers plus a rigorous climate change essay
Also films on A.I., a movie fan in India and NIKE (as in this photo) chasing Michael Jordan
MOVIES: two from or about super popular games and a sequel that brings Sandler and Aniston together again
Also a Canadian film about teenage lesbians among Jehovah's Witnesses. This scene is from Dungeon's And Dragons.
MOVIES: Big, big action by John Wick, a Can-Con fest and what you should know about ink
Also a French supernatural mystery and a U.S. political drama cum expose
MOVIES: Chess Story's super intensity; Boston Strangler's real crime and 3 of Canada's best
They include Brother, Riceboy Sleeps and Tenzin, all of them about immigrants
MOVIES: The Quiet Girl, a gem with Oscar hopes, and return visits by Mel Brooks, a Farrelly Brother and Scream
Also a fine Canadian film about loving movies and a gritty Southern father-son dispute
MOVIES: 3 women trying to find themselves, a Star Wars adventure and a literary gabfest
Also: Return to Seoul and the spirit of Rocky lives on in Creed III
MOVIES: Smaller films but big stars and more Oscar hopefuls
Also: a touch of real Canada, French colonial politics and Jesus freaks