If we can no longer skate on Ottawa’s Rideau Canal, we must change the climate conversation Is there something necessary — even community-building — about mourning this year’s loss of skating on the Rideau Canal and talking explicitly and collectively about the effects of climate change? Opinion By Trish Audette-Longo | Opinion, Vancouver culture | March 7th 2023
Top Gun soars; Emergency kicks racism through teen comedy and Memoria spins a cool mystery Also: the joys of community bookstores and Anthony Hopkins in one of his lesser works By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | May 26th 2022
Your Downton Abbey friends are back; a Parisian couple struggles with old age and a visionary offers wise words to live by Also: a cryptic view of Men, an Indigenous fight for land, and mild fun x2 from Disney By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | May 19th 2022
Movies: Colin Firth in wartime, a French student and the abortion law and Cinderella's most alternate version ever Also: a nifty modern western and contrasting documentaries: Navalny and Doug & the Slugs By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | May 12th 2022
Disney x2: Its latest Marvel movie and its loudest critic, plus more true stories Also a charmer from France, an immigrant success from Nova Scotia and a mass shooting from Australia By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Vancouver culture | May 6th 2022
Movies with celebrated origins: a popular franchise, a star classical conductor and a Canadian novel Also: a vacation puzzle in Mexico and modern young love in Paris By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | April 14th 2022
Johnny Depp exposes a pollution cover-up, Jim Carrey battles Sonic and life lessons from a Cow Also: A Canadian gem, a British period piece with nudity, and the space dreams of Elon Musk By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | April 7th 2022
MOVIES: filming in a COVID Bubble, finding the meta-verse in Everything and getting nostalgic in Apollo 10 ½ Also a movie that bombed, a dour comic book, a boy's Broadway dreams and the race to the vaccine By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | April 1st 2022
Adventure and fun in The Lost City and a political rant at Ahed's Knee Also environmental crisis , LGBTQ and jazz in 3 Canadian films By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | March 24th 2022
MOVIES: Cheaper by the Dozen, The Outfit, Deep Water and more Including a robot contest, a by-gone dining experience, still-here racism and abuse exposed By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Culture, Vancouver culture | March 17th 2022