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 …