Volkmar Richter
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.
MOVIES: Russell Crowe in his second Exorcism film is riveting
Also: old age, outlaw bikers, women's soccer and a boy surviving the Holocaust
MOVIES: Two with Indigenous issues, two animated films and an historic offense
Close up to a pipeline protest and recalling a notorious bit of Italian history
MOVIES: Those audience favorite bad boys are on a rescue mission: the industry needs them
Maybe The Watchers, creepy as they are can help. Or two small, high quality films.
MOVIES: 2 with the joys and pains of youth, a 3rd dealing with autism
Also mining's shady history and an arthouse slasher movie
MOVIES: Frantic action with Furiosa and fears elsewhere about plastics and A-I
Also: an amiable profile of those summer regulars The Beach Boys and a weak space trip with Jennifer Lopez
Friends, real and imaginary, in IF
There's also a Japanese classic brought back, Amy Winehouse revered, an Indigenous astronomer and more
MOVIES: Between the Apes and the Evil that doesn't exist we get some of the big issues of the day
Also films about the Reena Virk murder, a "two-spirit" artist, pals in the projects and getting back with The Beatles
MOVIES: Ryan Gosling moves on from Ken to this. Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway wander too, in their own way
Also: we visit a genuine superstar, a homeless man, an LGBTQ icon and a new Star Wars series
MOVIES: Tigers up very close, climate change in startling view and a romance and tennis hybrid
And more: questions and a heist Indigenous style, HIV, overpopulation and Leonardo da Vinci in animation
MOVIES: no blockbusters this week but check out some very good smaller films
Patriarchy, corporate greed, political satire, anxiety about the future and bravery amid The Holocaust are all on the bill