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: Red One, a big Christmas film worth avoiding, plus three non-seasonal choices
They bring more Dune, but also rape and memories of the Holocaust
MOVIES: recalling a previous war in Blitz, loving a fine new Christmas movie and more
Also aspirations of Blacks in America and starting a union at Amazon.
MOVIES: another big Oscar hopeful, plus AI, animal welfare, and a hood trying to atone
Also a deceptively simple solution to what's splintering the United States
MOVIES: Among the newly-arrived this week: several sure award contenders
Also a new Marvel movie, some online gaming and Hare Krishna
MOVIES: Jackie Chan with a panda, also a potent Indigenous tale
Along with catfishing, louder music from women, that Wild Robot and some body horror
MOVIES: Fact-based, most of them this week, from Trump, to logging protests to creating TV
Also: life after Superman, foes of the Taliban and a serial killer on a TV game show
MOVIES: The Joker comes back singing; 2 better films face up to real problems
Also more VIFF choices find comedy, music, racism and bumbling politicos
MOVIES: Francis Ford Coppola is back but not at his best. Kate Winslet IS at her best
Also more VIFF picks including one of the best films of the year
MOVIES: The travails of women as felt by Demi Moore in a new horror movie
And in other films: a controlling mom, a fading husband and Transformers at play
MOVIES: Our Academy Award hopeful, a bit of a puzzle, three other films are loud and clear
They're about cops, racism, gentrification and a space shot accident