The Academy Awards 2024
The closest I have come to holding an actual Oscar was when I was staying…
Author Paul Joyce
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…
Anatomy of a Fall
Director turned film critic, Paul Joyce, casts his eyes over the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated Anatomy…
Maestro
Paul Joyce, a filmmaker, photographer and artist, and The Arb’s very own arts & media…
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
With over 50 years as a director of stage and screen, our Media, TV and…
A Dr Who Dinosaur Speaks
Photographer, artist and erstwhile Dr Who director, Paul Joyce, offers an insight into the making…
Remembrances of War: An Exhibition by Paul Joyce
My first thoughts on beginning the series were to paint exactly what I remembered, but…
The Crown Season 5: Review
As our beloved youths, abusers of our Sky boxes, would say, “It’s about to drop,”…
This England: The Benefits of a Classical Education
In the first of a new series of reviews and discourses on film and television,…
The Green Fingered General
I must have on my groaning shelves three dozen biographies of Napoleon, but not one…
Beware the Bitcoin’s Bite
Yes, I blush to confess that I too was tempted by images of that sunny,…