Still hopeful after all these years In her book Still Hopeful, Maude Barlow asks what can be done to “inspire young people to see that the life of an activist is a good life?" By Peter G. Prontzos | Reviews | May 31st 2022
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