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: Jeremy Irons and Pierce Brosnan play men of history, and a creepy kid causes alarm
And more: Women rockers, a different cop-shoots-Black story, and a murky Rome adventure.
Movies: Ghostface is back; Belle finds herself on the internet, and some Cold War history
Also: anti-Black bias in the movies, African politics, a desert drug adventure, and dazed in New York.
Movies: Women as spies, computer time travel, and a gripping Canadian thriller
Also: A softer look at dementia and another comic book hero hits TV.
Film Reviews: Harry Potter reunion, a curio from Vancouver 40 years ago, and my picks for best of 2021
Also: Absolute Canadiana in Penticton (award-winning, too) and a new Star Wars spinoff.
Movies: Denzel as Macbeth, Licorice Pizza, one of the best, and Matrix Resurrections, one of the big ones
Also Denzel again, as director this time, Bono as actor, and two films about history — one bad, one excellent.
Movies: Spider-Man, The Lost Daughter and Nightmare Alley
And three more: A media spoof in France, a loser's return in Texas and the Jeffrey Epstein effect.
Movies: West Side Story remade, public discourse fallen in Don't Look Up, and The Forever Prisoner queried
Also: Journalism against big odds, a Japanese masterpiece, a YA hit, mystery at the lake, and Sandra Bullock.
Two touching films about childhood and the latest from a connoisseur of the lurid
Also: Two indigenous stories at Whistler, plus a volatile family, and Julia Child.
Movies recall the Gucci murder, Beatles struggles, and bring us Disney’s latest
Also: Oliver Stone revisits the JFK conspiracy, Halle Berry directs her debut, hypocrisy and horror show up, too.
Film: Benedict in cowboy mode, Will Smith as a tennis dad and Ghostbusters once again
Also: up close (too close?) with Alanis Morisette, more from Lin-Manuel Miranda and a horror on the rez