The Tragedy Without an End: Lockerbie
As January seems to be the prime time for event drama on the small screen, the Arb’s…
Author Paul Joyce
An Armchair Christmas: The Entertainment Round-Up
Former TV director and the Arb’s ‘on screen’ critic, Paul Joyce, offers an appraisal of…
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
As Wolf Hall continues to hold court on Sunday nights, director, photographer and Arb screen…
The Day of the Jackal
The Arb’s screen critic, former TV director and photographer, Paul Joyce, takes aim at the…
The 2024 European Song Contest: A Verdict
Our outspoken ‘on screen’ critic Paul Joyce comes up with another polemic to split opinion, this…
Clarkson’s Farm
What is the link between all these foodstuffs: black pudding; spam; mushy peas; liquorice; cabbage;…
Oppenheimer: The Verdict
Struggling manfully to reach minute sixty of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”, as someone with the sensation…
Scoop
January 24th 1848 in Sutter’s Mill, Caloma, California, was the moment that one James W…
Ripley
Director and photographer Paul Joyce, recalls his meetings with Patricia Highsmith and reviews Ripley on…
The Academy Awards 2024
The closest I have come to holding an actual Oscar was when I was staying…
Past Lives
Past Lives is the astonishingly assured film debut by Korean playwright, and now director, Celine…
Prisoner: No Danish Pastry
Back in the day when films were rated ‘U’ (child) to ‘X’ (over 16), I…