Screengrab: Whisky Galore
Richard Lutz on the movie of the tv week – in this, the festive season of goodwill, peace on earth and last minute internet deals.
Screengrab: Laughs Amid the Rubble
Richard Lutz plunders the Christmas listings to find a gem of a movie on the box this week.
The Banks That Like To Say ‘Theft’
Lloyds Bank has been fined £28 million for bullying staff to hit targets for seliing dubious financial packages to unwitting customers. RICHARD LUTZ says our banks just can’t keep their noses out of the sewer.
Screengrab: How The West Was Won, Lost and Altered
Richard Lutz ploughs through the tv listings to unearth the film gems you should watch this week
What’s On: The Nutcracker
Hey, it’s Christmas.
Screengrab: Dressed To Bill
Richard Lutz trawls through the detritus of this week’s tv listings to find the best film on the box.
Double Your Donation and Save Lives
A Birmingham based medical charity is giving you the opportunity to double your donation and help save lives around the world
JFK: 50 Years Ago and What I Remember
If you are of a certain age, you will remember where you were…exactly…when you found out John Kennedy was shot 50 years ago today.
Next Exit to Brooklyn
Richard Lutz returns to Brooklyn. It’s his hometown. But it’s halfway round the world
Wiseman’s Ferry: Heat and A River
By Richard Lutz in Australia.
Drifting Towards Macau and Other Dreams
Everyone has a Nowhere to get to. For RICHARD LUTZ, it is Macao
Of Conversations, Spying and the Movies
By Richard Lutz
Power Not To The People
Richard Lutz on the need to balance nature with energy policy.
Screengrab: Upriver with Bogie and La Hep
Richard Lutz dips into the week’s tv schedules and points to the best movie on your flatscreen.
Review: Richard The Second
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford on Avon
Until 16th Nov
from RICHARD LUTZ
PM’s Brother Linked with Phone Hacking Trial Legal Team
by Richard Lutz
Screengrab: Marvelous Marvin
Richard Lutz and those films you just gotta see on the box this week
Of Scotland, Independence and That Underlying Uncertainty
With less than a year until Scotland votes for independence, RICHARD LUTZ feels the heat rising in the referendum debate.
Screengrab: When Newman Bombed But Vintage Cars Ruled
RICHARD LUTZ carves his way through the week’s tv schedules to find the movies you can’t afford to miss.
Screengrab: Forest Whitaker and Talent
RICHARD LUTZ has the lowdown on the highlights of which movies to see on tv this week.
Politics and Electric Shock Therapy
from Richard Lutz This week’s electioneering at the annual Labour Party conference had a whiff of righteousness about it- but it could hit a common chord with most folks paying the monthly bills. Or at least worrying about them To freeze power bills for 20 months (if Labour get in) is a winner. I…
Screengrab: Is This the Finest SF Movie Ever? (Answer: yes…)
RICHARD LUTZ on the film you just gotta watch on the box this week OK, lock the door, bolt the windows, turn on the flatscreen, rev up the hard drive back-up, set the DVD for the heart of the sun, put a sticker reminder on your IPAD, even hit the record button on your…
Screengrab: Twin Coens
Richard Lutz points to the movies you just can’t miss on the box this week
Teme Spirit
RICHARD LUTZ wanders through a bit of this sceptered isle in Worcestershire
BBC Babies And Half Truths
Richard Lutz watched the squirming of the BBC moguls at the Public Accounts Committee hearing yesterday and wasn’t impressed.
Screengrab: What Price Victory in Cowboyland?
RICHARD LUTZ checks out the films you just gotta see this week on the box Westward Ho. Or maybe South, East or North, for that matter. Sometimes it didn’t matter when it came to cowboy films that had a mission and an inner journey involved. Is it a coincidence or, shock-horror, a matter…
Why Savile Won’t Go Away- Unfortunately
This week Channel 4 News doorstepped the former BBC boss Mark Thompson and rattled him by continually asking how much he knew about the appalling Jimmy Savile (sorry… Sir Jimmy Savile) case.
Screengrab: Cool Hand Paul
RICHARD LUTZ on the films on tv this week that you just got to see Here’s one for all you movie geeks: a classic prison chain gang movie starring Jack Lemmon as a Christ-like inmate called Luke Jackson and Telly Savalas (formerly Kojak) as the jail bully who learns to love and respect …
Cheating Financiers To Pay Up- Again
RICHARD LUTZ explains why today-29th Aug- may be a good day for you and could mean money in your pocket.
Screengrab: The Military, the Movies and The Message
RICHARD LUTZ sees it’s all War, War and more War on the tv movie list this week. But what kind of war film is another matter.