MOVIES: An Oscar brings new life to Henry Sugar and his quirky Wes Anderson friends Also Anthony Hopkins in a Holocaust story, a gem from New Zealand and more By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | March 15th 2024
MOVIES: Four times out, Kung Fu Panda is sure to be big with families once again While Oscar winner Peter Farrelly flounders with his new one and an Indigenous film brings chills and suspense By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | March 8th 2024
MOVIES: Dune part 2 directed by Denis Villeneuve has the look and feel of a classic epic There's also a massive trek on the Trans Canada Trail, a complaining narcissist and changes in how we work By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 29th 2024
MOVIES: A couple of surprise gems in another batch of Oscar hopefuls Also a couple of Canadian films, a Buddhist satire on America and Ethan Coen gone solo and low-rent By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 23rd 2024
Perfect Days is smart and literate, poignant and deeply engrossing It's one of three top-tier non-English, subtitled, films this week. One is Oscar nominated. By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 8th 2024
MOVIES: All but one of the new arrivals this week are about women or girls And the lone other is from a book by a woman By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 1st 2024
MOVIES: Think caste system, not racism, says a novel documentary. One of three this week, all groundbreakers One recalls a bookburning, one helps with homelessness and then there's Snoop Dogg stops in with some raunchy football fun By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 26th 2024
MOVIES: New award-calibre films arrive as we wait for the Oscars There's also realism about schools, gentrification, memory and racism. By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 18th 2024
MOVIES: Mean Girls, a favorite remade, but not as good, plus five others new in town They deliver action, mountain culture, Freud in imaginary conversation and a poet on race By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 12th 2024
MOVIES: They've come in twos: award candidates, dystopian visions, and gay love stories And two are Paul Mescal films. Not this one: it's American Fiction By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 4th 2024