Screengrab: A grounded Redford takes to the high seas

Richard Lutz navigates through the dross of the week’s movies on tv to find a sunken treasure

That was the wall and the walk that was and other tales

Richard Lutz leafs through the wreckage of his past week.

Sparkbrook and the eye of the lens

Richard Lutz highlights a book about a Birmingham neighbourhood that continually changes and refuses to die.

Street legal on High Street

Richard Lutz contemplates what’s on offer inside a US marijuana shop.

Screengrab: The Straight Story about an odyssey in old age

Richard Lutz checks out the best movie on the box for this week. 

Ban the Bard and other tales

Richard Lutz peers through the leaves of his past week.

Screengrab: Clooney, Kirk and Christmas

Richard Lutz trawls the movies on the box that you just can’t miss…

Sharks and Other Tales

Richard Lutz wanders through Warwickshire, hears a choir, fails at a pub quiz and ponders the world of sharks 

The dark shadow on the sidelines

As the British football sex scandal gains steam, Richard Lutz remembers his school where a sports coach preyed on boys. It has caused a national scandal in the US

RSC Tempest: Stratford meets the digital age in a vibrant classic

Imagine a 30 foot high Ariel towering above Propero – that’s what you get in this groundbreaking performance, says Richard Lutz

Road map to Pence-sylvania

With all the noise about Donald Trump, how about the other guy- the one a heartbeat away from the Oval Office? Richard Lutz checks the facts

Robert Glasper review: free-flowing, innovative, cheeky

Richard Lutz catches a mix of jazz, hip-hop, RandB and techno from a young master

That was the west Texas that is..and other tales

Movies, English sunken lanes and an internet warning. Richard Lutz surveys another week

Lord Howard: Why I feel safe in the United States of Animosity

Diplomatic editor Sir Howard Elston analyses the new Trumpie inner circle.

Trump to Queen: ‘You’re fired, girl”

Sir Howard Elston, inside the Trump citadel, with an exclusive that’ll shock all lime-eating Brits.

High Five- one of Britain’s finest writers emerges on a new bill

Scotland has engraved the portrait of one of its best kept secrets on its new £5 note. She’s a writer almost no one has heard of…until now.

A quick constitutional walk through Trump, guns and a really rigged voting system

Donald Trump enters the White House with little knowledge or respect for constitutional law. But things must change to accommodate the times, says Richard Lutz.

Kiss Me Kate: sharp, funny, an absolute winner

Richard Lutz brushes up his Shakespeare, thanks to the Welsh National Opera.

Rover’s glorious return

Richard Lutz reviews The Rover at the RSC’s Swan Theatre in Stratford upon Avon.

Review: KT Tunstall in Birmingham

Richard Lutz reports from Symphony Hall.

Those were the woods that was….and cars and baseball and the US election

Richard Lutz rummages through the vestiges of the last week

Review: What Shadows at The Birmingham Rep

Richard Lutz reviews a new play about Enoch Powell, the politician who polarised a nation with a venomous speech made more than four decades ago.

Review: Million Dollar Quartet is ‘..a livewire exuberant night out…’

Richard Lutz puts on his blue suede wellies to take in a jukebox classic at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

Review: Two Noble Kinsmen

Richard Lutz is in two minds about the latest RSC offering at Stratford on Avon.

Review: Loudon Wainwright III

Richard Lutz takes his pew at Birmingham’s Town Hall for a concert by an old troubadour

Trump and Fear

With less than a month to polling day, Richard Lutz reports on the US election.

That was the pizza wars that was.. and other tales

Richard Lutz reviews the shards of the last week, taking in woods, squandering a British heritage and the passing of a good man.

Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Tempest

Richard Lutz takes his pew for the premiere of a Shakespeare classic at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

Review: Tamsin Waley-Cohen

Richard Lutz reviews the classical violinist suffused with the blues

Exhibition dedicated to Birmingham film-maker opens

City university launches celebration of noted producer’s work.