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
Movies: picks for best of the year Poor Things and Ferrari are the recent arrivals. By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | December 29th 2023
Movies for the holidays offer a whole range from nice to grim Winners, fighters, survivors, Black women, the Holocaust: they're all here By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | December 21st 2023
MOVIES: Willy Wonka is back and expected to be huge this holiday season, plus four others They are another Chicken Run, two films with women's issues and some musicians you should know By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | December 14th 2023
This week at the movies They include two animated films, one a near masterpiece By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | December 7th 2023
MOVIES: Leonard Bernstein revealed in Maestro, Eddie Murphy's first Christmas movie and a peek into the Whistler Film Festival Also an unusual road to better race relations in the U.S. By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | November 30th 2023
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 By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | November 24th 2023
