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: American Thanksgiving brings out big titles like Napoleon, Wish and May December
Also: a visit with the super rich, Nicolas Cage at his best, comedy from Finland and, for us, healing Canada's Indigenous
MOVIES: What came before the Hunger Games; can soccer's big losers turn things around and what about the Rolling Stones?
Also a scathing look at North Korea and animated fun with Adam Sandler
MOVIES: A sweet one for the holidays, Denys Arcand on our woke conflicts and a new one from Marvel
Also: extreme pursuit of fame and re-imagining your life in high school
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