Screengrab: Pacino, heat and Palookaville

Richard Lutz highlights the TV film of the week.

Matilda at the Birmingham Hippodrome: “…faultless, a delight…”

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a five star performance of the hit musical.

Home Run

Richard Lutz reviews his past week.

Sir Howard interviews totally honest Prez Trump

Sir Howard nabs another exclusive with Mr President.

Irish stew…and a bit of Trump too

Richard Lutz sums up another whacko week.

Birmingham photographer to be given honorary doctorate

Richard Lutz reports on a city artist who portrays his hometown through the telling eye of a monochrome lens 

God bless the Queen of the States

Big news from our royal correspondent.

This is the week that is: Chapter 46

Richard Lutz steels himself for the week ahead.

Screengrab: 6 days, 6 directors..and a World Cup

Richard Lutz dribbles his way through the World Cup-free TV films of the upcoming week.

Elston’s exclusive shocker: May’s big Brexit interview

Howard Elston allows Theresa May a rare audience.

Sir Howard shocker: Trump claims England win victory

The US prez grabs laurels in historic penalty shootout, says our sports reporter Lord Howard Elston (DOA)

Addicted to Love (Island)

Will Mapplebeck turns to his flatscreen for virtual relief.

The night of the living jerk, a river & movies that don’t rust

Richard Lutz looks back over the past few days.

Screengrab: Marvelous Marv and that $93k

Richard Lutz finds the toughest TV film of the week on his 90″ flatscreen.

All aboard the Moseley Express: latest

Richard Lutz on the continuing story of the Moseley/Kings Heath rail link.

Screengrab: Raising a glass to Guinness

Richard Lutz checks out what’s hot on the box this week.

The past is not another country

Richard Lutz ponders an inchoate past seven days.

The world of (wrong) facts

Why Everything You Think You Know About the World Is Probably Wrong, warns writer Will Mapplebeck.

Greene-land and its offshore madhouse

Richard Lutz braves the whirlpool of the past week.

Sir Howard exclusive: The secret Trump/Kim Jong-un tapes

More diplomatic exclusives from our diplomatic correspondent.

Virtual Man and other tales

Richard Lutz ponders the last seven days of a mis-spent middle age.

In the land of the anti-wind sucking snaffle

Richard Lutz finds solace from the inchoate wreckage of the last week.

Relatively speaking

Richard Lutz ambles through the wreckage of another week.

Mapplebeck: local stop at the polls

You may have heard, it’s election time again, warns Will Mapplebeck. Beware.

Double-dating

Richard Lutz scours the wreckage of the past week and blows out the birthday candles with a champ.

Finnish line

 Richard Lutz checks his biochemical past and gets lost in a late winter walk.

Howard sez: It just ain’t cricket

The huge-mungus questions of the day answered by, The Hon Lord Howard Elston of Strangeways.

Review: The Play That Goes Wrong

Richard Lutz watches a perfect rendition of an absolute tour de farce. 

Review: Macbeth at Stratford

Richard Lutz watches an up to the minute production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. But does it work? he asks.

Future world

 Will Mapplebeck ponders the future.