Screengrab: The Old Megastar and the Sea
Richard Lutz swims in the swirling waters of the weekly TV schedules to come up with a movie treasure.
Screengrab: A pair of classics that sum up not an age but a freaky dream
RICHARD LUTZ dips into the TV schedules to come up gasping for breath with twin movie offers.
Screengrab: Friday Night Magic
Richard Lutz guides you through Movieland on the box for this week.
Screengrab: The Real Blade Runner
Richard Lutz with a classic film from the TV listings.
Screengrab: Days of Heaven
RICHARD LUTZ points to the movie you shouldn’t miss on TV this week.
Screengrab: Heading West Into Fear
RICHARD LUTZ rides west to find the outstanding film on the box this week…and it’s a modern classic
Screengrab: Downey The Ironic Man
Richard Lutz surfs the TV listings to find the gems among the bilge when it comes to films on the flatscreen.
Screengrab: Time for The Time Machine
RICHARD LUTZ does the drudgery and ploughs the deep and dangerous furrows of the TV schedules to offer the best film of the week.
Screengrab: The Masterpiece Etched By Death
Richard Lutz allows his gaze to fall on a major movie masterpiece interred among the weekly tv listings.
Screengrab: Caine, Wayne…and Alec
Richard Lutz furrows deep into tv movielsnd to rustle up some icons of the crystal box in your living room.
Screengrab: Sunshine On Leith
RICHARD LUTZ checks out the best film on the box this week, and it’s a bright wee thing from Scotland.
Screengrab: Friday Night Is For Frightening
Richard Lutz roars through the TV listings to uncloak the film of the week.
Screengrab: Avoiding The Balls From Brazil
Richard Lutz avoids own goals as he guides us through the movies to watch during the tv coverage of The Balls From Brazil
Screengrab: RIP Norma Jean
The World Cup kicks off this week. So Richard Lutz guides you to the movie to watch in case you’re footballaphobic
Screengrab: Maestro of the New World
RICHARD LUTZ directs you to this week’s movie on the flatscreen you just shouldn’t miss.
Screengrab: By British
Richard Lutz on the coming’s week’s TV films.
Screengrab: Bumper Easter Edition- (plus you get de Niro v Pacino)
RICHARD LUTZ CHECKS THE TV LISTINGS. AND COMES OUT TRUMPS.
Screengrab: The Original Spaghetti Western (With A Touch of Eastern Mystique)
RICHARD LUTZ looks at this week’s tv schedules to tell you what films are best on the box.
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.
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: 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…
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 …
Screengrab: Thank God for Tuesdays
Richard Lutz puts down his remote to tell us what’s good on the box when it comes to movies
Screengrab: An Offer You Can’t Refuse
There’s a major classico this week on the box, says our man with the remote Richard Lutz
Screengrab: The Duke Goes to War- Hollywood Style
What with all the Jubilee stuff, the finals of The Voice, the re-intro of Big Brother and, finally, Greece ready to pummel Russia 5-0 in the opening of Euro 12, I guess flatscreens will be burning bright throughout this blessed isle.
Screengrab: White Whales and Kirk Douglas Drag Us Into The Deep Blue Hollywood Sea
from Richard Lutz Stolid if not boring Gregory Peck takes to the high seas in Moby Dick (Mon, Ch5; 14.15) It was a great novel. Still is. It is a laughably appalling movie. Director John Huston made a mega mistake by signing up po- faced Peck to be Captain Ahab in pursuit of that…
Screengrab: Best Western Ever?
Richard Lutz picks out the best movies on the box this week. I’ll kick off this column with a tribute to the 2010 film of the year: Meek’s Cutoff (Wed; Film4, 22.50). A group of tired and thirsty wagon train travelers are heading west in 1845. They may be lost or they may…
Screengrab: From Jack Nicholson And Into The Abyss With Mad Max
Richard Lutz looks at the week ahead on the box for movies Screengrab comes to you this week from Scotland. And it’s indeed a pleasure to report that along with heather and tartan, this place also has television. So, it is a complete and unalloyed pleasure to go through the listings and send you my…
Screengrab: John Wayne’s Secrets
from Richard Lutz There’s a great Hollywood story about the final shot in that John Wayne/John Ford classic The Quiet Man (Mon; Ch4, 12.45) . It goes like this: In the last scene, Wayne and his co-star Maureen O’Hara stand on top of a sunny knoll after all the Irish brawling, drinking and mayhem.…