MOVIES about saving the rainforest, Idris Elba up against one angry lion and one man's love story amid dementia Also: an unusually truthful film about young women and sex ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment August 18th 2022
MOVIES: about millennials' problems, a sky-borne thriller and a call to dare fate Also saving the rainforest, opposing arranged marriage and partying angry ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment August 12th 2022
Brad Pitt on a crazy train, Ron Howard at a cave rescue and a space alien in Indigenous culture Also Indigenous/settler contact in a long lost opera and frazzled times running a restaurant ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment August 4th 2022
MOVIES: When even super-heroes need rescuing, a high-school is tricked and thoughts turn to vengeance Also small films from Canada and the U.K. with high goals ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment July 28th 2022
MOVIES: Glitzy Becoming a Queen, paradise spoiled in Costa Brava and Buddhist sci-fi in Karmalink Also love in and around volcanos and a new, not-improved Gulliver ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment July 21st 2022
MOVIES: Summer action, a good summer read, Jane Austen, Leonard Cohen's most famous song Also Jane Austen's Persuasion, Mrs. Harris's fantasy, a growing up tale and a dog tale among cats ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment July 15th 2022
MOVIES: a treat from Netflix, a couple of odd ones from Greece and Canada and no Thor ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment July 7th 2022
MOVIES: Minions outdone by a mollusk named Marcel and the Regency era lives again with Mr. Malcolm's List Also: current world events foreseen in a thriller and and life in Paris as we rarely see it ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment June 30th 2022
MOVIES: A strong line up this week with Elvis, Emma, The Long Rider and more Including The Man from Toronto, Inuit girls battling aliens and Ethan Hawke as “The Grabber” ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment June 23rd 2022
MOVIES: a Toy Story off-shoot, effervescent music in New Orleans and Peter Pan's story reimagined Also two fantasies about Big Pharma and two British comedies ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment June 16th 2022
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?" ByPeter 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 ByVolkmar 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 ByVolkmar 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 ByVolkmar 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 ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Vancouver culture May 6th 2022