Volkmar Richter

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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.

125 Articles

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

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

Reviews, Vancouver culture | May 6th 2022

Documentaries: getting close with volcanos, the man who beat Monsanto and rush food in disasters

Also more from Hot Docs and DOXA, a different Holocaust story and the usual from Liam Neeson

Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture

The best Vikings movie ever, meta fun with Nicolas Cage and climate documentaries for Earth Day

Also a mysterious road trip in Iran and a frenetic kids movie

Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews, Culture, Vancouver culture | March 17th 2022

Coda, Turning Red and The Adam Project

Also play for the kids by a wolf and a lion, some far-out-time travel and a two-spirit Indigenous trip

Reviews, Entertainment, Vancouver culture | March 10th 2022