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About Volkmar Richter

Volkmar Richter is a former producer for CBC Radio, first in Toronto, then in Vancouver. He is a life-long movie fan ever since he was taken to his first as a boy in a small town in Austria. It was an American swashbuckler that he's been watching out for ever since.

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MOVIES: All That Breathes– climate change drives an excellent documentary

There aren't many movies that take on climate change directly. So support this one. It's a mesmerising documentary, has won awards at Cannes and Sundance and is nominated for an Academy Award. It's from India about one of the results of the man-made crisis and the efforts of a pair of brothers to do something to help.
Reviews, Entertainment | January 26th 2023

MOVIES: An Oscar worthy performance, plus films with angry music and literate memories

Also a couple of films for lunar New Year and a computer-driven fantasy
Reviews, Entertainment | January 19th 2023

Tom Hanks playing not so nice, Sarah Polley letting women talk and an entangled story from Korea

Also: Canadian cynicism in a modern, punky film noir
Reviews, Entertainment | January 12th 2023

Christian Bale meets Edgar Allen Poe in a murder mystery. Climate change figures in two other films

Also: Nicolas Cage shoots it up in his first western
Reviews, Entertainment | January 5th 2023

MOVIES: Brendan Fraser's triumph, Harvey Weinstein's downfall and my votes for the best films of 2022

From All Quiet on the Western Front and Avatar to The Whale
Reviews, Entertainment | December 29th 2022

MOVIES: Hollywood as Babylon, superstition in Iran and home movies from France

Also two films your (older) kids will be wild about
Reviews, Entertainment | December 22nd 2022

MOVIES: Environmental stewardship and 3-D action from James Cameron's second Avatar

Also: a look back at a celebrated rock and roll day
Reviews, Entertainment | December 16th 2022

MOVIES: TWO FIT FOR THE HOLIDAYS FROM ENGLAND AND A DISTURBING ONE FROM IRAN

Also Tilda Swinton playing both mother and daughter, Jim Parsons in a gay romance and trans people talking
Reviews, Entertainment | December 8th 2022

MOVIES: ordinary life goes askew in White Noise, plus an artist fights the opioid sellers and a gay joins the Marines

Also a frenetic thriller from South Korea
Reviews, Entertainment | December 1st 2022

MOVIES about Steven Spielberg's boyhood, Daniel Craig as a wily detective and a lovable donkey on the road

Also: A space-science adventure, women versus the Taliban and a prairie gothic with cannibalism
Reviews, Entertainment | November 24th 2022
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