Screengrab: Captain Kirk

Richard Lutz pays tribute to a classic newspaper movie on the box this week.

Spliff and chips

Richard Lutz wavers through another inchoate seven days.

Of naval gazing and quiet valleys and fatal floors

Richard Lutz survives another week in Chaosville, UK.

Rolling right and other tales from the week

Richard Lutz takes a long look back at the last seven days.

May and Trump: Realpolitik by numbers

Richard Lutz reports on how numbers matter when it comes to kingmakers.

Review: Sergeant Pepper in King’s Heath

It was fifty years ago today, trumpets Richard Lutz, as he re-lives that great album.

Haircut and other stories

Richard Lutz wrestles with the wreckage of another week.

Screengrab: Mitch, weed and the hard desert

 Richard Lutz picks the best movie on TV this week

Vice Versa at Stratford: “madcap but not sharp enough…”

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a new comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Finger painting and other tales

Richard Lutz reviews his seven days…this week in and out of museums. 

Tommy: relentless songs that run out of puff

Richard Lutz takes his pew for the anthemic play about a kid who plays a mean pinball.

Where history sleeps

Richard Lutz gets lost in Shakespeare country.

The past is another country but some things never change

Richard Lutz wanders through lost school hallways at his fiftieth class reunion

The Mayoral Race: Hustings Heaven

Richard Lutz joins the throng to listen to the six candidates for West Midlands mayor.

Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford: Electric performance hampered by plodding plot

Richard Lutz takes his pew for the classic Shakespeare tragedy about love and lust when youth leaves the stage.

I Want, I Want: “a gallery of tomorrow’s dreams…”

Richard Lutz enters the digital world of new tech artists.

Root problems and other tales

Richard Lutz painstakingly looks back in anguish at the week that was and a spring that will be.

The banks that like to say theft- chapter 46

Richard Lutz on the Treasury and an industry fined £75 billion for fraud and stealing from its customers.

CBSO Spring Classics: “..a basket of favourites…”

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a Friday night that heralds a new season.

Screengrab: A gamine English star, a prickly Scot and Skelton Knaggs

Richard Lutz points the finger at a quartet of movies that will fill your crystal screen this week.

Now, let’s hold on for a minute

Richard Lutz warns that the Westminster attack should not start a rush to judgement.

Ballad of The Arousal Cafe – and other tales

Richard Lutz combs the smoking ruins of another seven days.

MK Ultra: “ A one way paranoid dance to the world of The Illuminati…”

Richard Lutz gets led into a bizarre twilight of half baked conspiracy theories at The Birmingham Rep that include Walt Disney, Justin Bieber and the CIA. Yes, really…

False truth crossing and other tales

Richard Lutz meanders through another miasmic week

Last train out, maps and other tales

Richard Lutz looks back in angst at the past week.

The Oscars: Moonlight best but will it win?

Richard Lutz explains why this movie about love and generosity is the natural choice for the best film award this Sunday.

Bring on the clowns (and the motorcycles and the flame jugglers)

It’s circus time at the Birmingham Rep as the Cirque Beserk sets up the big top. Richard Lutz was there with a helper.

Sir Howard: I have had it with the so bad lying media thing

Howard Elston takes on false lying journalists..they’re wrong, wrong, wrong.

Screengrab: John Wayne and his real war wound

Richard Lutz gets all gung-ho about the most intriguing movie on the box this week

That was the Wyre that was and other tales

Richard Lutz reviews the charred wreckage of another week.